From April to July 1994, terror struck Rwanda as Hutu members of the nation brutally mutilated, raped and killed approximately 800,000 Tutsi members, as well as only partially Hutu members. Before the genocide, tensions existed between the two ethnic groups. Over the decades, Hutus took power in the country. In fact, Major General Juvénal Habyarimana, a moderate Hutu, held office for over ten years (History.com Staff, 2009). At the same time, in the years before the genocide in Rwanda, in another country called America, the ethnic group of African Americans was severely discriminated against. By the 1900s, slavery was no longer legal in the states; However, a few decades before the Rwandan genocide, Oxford, North Carolina waged havoc against punitive decimation and killings based on a person's ethnic group. On May 11, 1970 (fourteen years before the Rwandan genocide), Henry “Dickie” Marrow was murdered by three white men who, at the time, were well-known men in Oxford. He was brutally beaten and shot before dying while being treated. Marrow was murdered strictly based on the color of his skin and his origin. Although the Thirteenth Amendment was passed in the 1800s (The Library Of Congress, 2014), it took over a century for racial discrimination against African Americans to slow. Unfortunately, in smaller areas, such as: Denton, North Carolina, racial discrimination still exists today. During this event, a white boy named Timothy Tyson was watching the events. He then grew up to write a book with stories from different people about what happened, in order to get the real facts. The book is now called Blood Done Sign My Name. The horror began in Rwanda when a plane carrying middle of paper ......cide ended when the Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of the country. This was a group of Tutsi from Uganda and trained fighters (Rosenberg, 2014). This is in comparison to the time when Black won and the Teels were sent out and charged. Works Cited Armenian Youth Federation. (2014). Genocide in Rwanda. Retrieved April 30, 2014, from United Human Rights Council: http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htmHistory.com Staff. (2009). History.com. Retrieved April 30, 2014 from The Rwandan Genocide: http://www.history.com/topics/rwandan-genocide Rosenberg, J. (2014). A brief history of the genocide in Rwanda. Retrieved 2014 from Rwanda Genocide.The Library Of Congress. (April 10, 2014). Primary Documents of American History. Retrieved April 30, 2014 from http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/13thamendment.html