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Rwanda is a country located in the Great Lakes region of Sub-Saharan Africa. Approximately 85% of its population is Hutu, 14% is Tutsi, and 1% is Twa, an ethnic group of Pygmy origin. Although the 1994 Rwandan genocide was initially presented by international media as a conflict between ethnic tribes, it was later defined as a brutal period of state-sponsored mass violence and systematic genocide. The genocide was triggered by the death on 6 April 1994 of the then Hutu leader Juvénal Habyarimana