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The Republic of Rwanda, as the country is officially called, is located in East Central Africa and has Kigali as its capital. It came to the forefront of world news due to the ethnic clashes that took place in 1994 with more than 500,000 victims.
Its total area is 26,338 square kilometers, and the population is 12663116 inhabitants, according to an official estimate for 2020.
In 2009 he became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
The Hutu settled in Rwanda in the 14th century and the Tutsi in the 15th.
From 1890, first the Germans and then the Belgians colonized the country until 1962, when Rwanda became an independent state. For about 500 years the Tutsis were the political rulers of the country and oppressed the Hutus.
The use of the Tutsi minority by the colonialists as the country's ruling class and the oppression of the Hutu majority by them was another reason for the conflict between the two tribes.
Since 1959 there has been an armed conflict between them. In 1994, on the occasion of the death of the then president of the country, riots broke out that led to what is also known as the Rwandan Genocide with more than half a million Tutsis killed by the Hutus.
Millions of people have fled the country due to the unrest. This has been described by the UN as genocide.