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In the decades leading up to the genocide, political power in Rwanda shifted into the hands of Hutu extremists. President Juvénal Habyarimana, a Hutu, took power in 1973 and maintained a tight grip on the country. But ethnic tensions continued to grow, fueled by political propaganda and hate speech targeting the Tutsi minority.