Explaining the Key Question

Can social psychology help explain the actions of theh Hutu townsfolk during the Rwandan genocide?

800000 to 1 million Tutsis and Hutus were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in 100 days.

The genocide began when the president's plane was shot down; no body knows who the real shooter was

Some people theorise that the Hutus shot down the plane so they would have…