@tycho power was one of the variables but not the only variable. If you manage to visit the many museums (esp in Kigali). You will appreciate how religion/beliefs, deprivation or limited access to information were the key factors.
On lessons, I bet Kenya like experiencing things first hand. We aren't so far away from that taking into account distribution of the national cake.

I agree that religious belief and knowledge and it's distribution were factors, perhaps key factors. This is because they are part of the power structure. Withholding or 'rationing' information and knowledge is one way of withholding and redistributing power. So is religion a means of wielding power.

That's too difficult for the present leadership to do. How can the Tutsis who ran away during the 'revolution' start thinking wholistically? Or those who survived the genocide? It's like there's little space for such reorientation. Realpolitic is grinding at a fast rate.

Very true. Rwanda was at war between the RPF and the FDLR regime of that time. President JH's plane was shot down from RPF controlled zone using an American made missile.

When Kagame rolled from the North and East, RPF slaughtered Hutus and took their land and livestock. In the West and South the depleted Hutu regime and militias slaughtered Tutsis who could not make it to RPF controlled zones.

The world knows that RPF saved Rwanda from the Genocide but never asks who caused the Genocide in the first place.

It is such a pity that Rwandan civilians were slaughtered by one side desparate to hold on to power and another side willing to do anything to grab power.

the two tribes were a creation of the colonial masters. They favoured the ones with caucasian features or longer noses calling them Tutsi.