 Responsibility for the assassinations has never been clearly established, however, the resulting chaos was the catalyst for the massacre of Tutsis at the hands of Rwanda's Hutu majority.Bushnell, who had been visiting the area just weeks before, released a memorandum immediately following the assassinations.In it, she predicted widespread violence and the military take-over of the Rwandan government and urged the U.S. government to take action to maintain order.