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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 4437692" data-attributes="member: 1246">On April 7, 1994, violence fuels the launch of what would become the worst episode of genocide since <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii" target="_blank">World War II</a>: the massacre of an estimated 500,000 to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Following the first wave of massacres, Rwandan forces manage to discourage international intervention with the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers. The Tutsis, a minority group that made up about 10 percent of Rwanda’s population, received no assistance from the international community, although the United Nations later conceded that a mere 5,000 soldiers deployed at the outset would have stopped the wholesale slaughter.<a href="http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/bill-clinton" target="_blank">Bill Clinton</a> later called America’s failure to do anything to stop the genocide “the biggest regret” of his administration.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 4437692, member: 1246"] On April 7, 1994, violence fuels the launch of what would become the worst episode of genocide since [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii'][U]World War II[/U][/URL]: the massacre of an estimated 500,000 to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Following the first wave of massacres, Rwandan forces manage to discourage international intervention with the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers. The Tutsis, a minority group that made up about 10 percent of Rwanda’s population, received no assistance from the international community, although the United Nations later conceded that a mere 5,000 soldiers deployed at the outset would have stopped the wholesale slaughter. [URL='http://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/bill-clinton'][U]Bill Clinton[/U][/URL] later called America’s failure to do anything to stop the genocide “the biggest regret” of his administration. [/QUOTE]

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