Was Rwanda in 1994 and Sudan ethnic cleansing or a civil war?

Both were ethnic cleansing within the context of civil wars. 91% of an ethnicity killed - sounds like ethnical cleansing to me. > Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination or attempted extermination of people who belong to a particul... read more

The Rwandan genocide occurred in 1994, as members of the Hutu ethnic majority in Rwanda massacred up to 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority. By the time the Rwandese Patriotic Front gained control, the violence had created millions of refugees and left the country in ruins. read more

Civil war broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, when President Salva Kiir accused his then vice-president Riek Machar of plotting a coup. Kiir and Machar represent the country’s two main ethnic groups—the Dinka and Nuer respectively—and fighting is increasingly taking on an ethnic dimension. read more