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The assassination, blamed on the Tutsi minority, was the trigger for the mass slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu. In the following 100 days, 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were slaughtered, a frenzied genocide that killed three-quarters of the Rwandan Tutsi population.
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