Burundians are in poverty. Burundi ranks in the top 5 of the poorest countries ranked on their GDP. Burundi is located in the heart of Africa’s great lakes and next to Rwanda. This country speaks a range of languages that are Swahili‚ French and Kirundi. It also has 2 main religions‚ which are Christianity and Indigenous beliefs. Rwanda and Burundi are two African countries with long histories. Both were kingdoms centuries before Europeans arrived. It is believed that the Twa (oldest surviving people
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In the movie Hotel Rwanda‚ the Hutu Tribe started a civil war with each other. The Hutu Tribe disliked the Tutsi Tribe because they felt as though they arrogant. One man in the movie stated that you could identify a Tutsi because of the lighter skin and that they were upper class. The Tutsi Tribe were the minority and the Hutus felt the need to wipe them out. They did this by basically having a genocide. A genocide is a mass murder against a group of particular people. The Hutus came with soldiers
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Prior to Rwanda gaining independence from Belgium in 1962‚ the country experienced a constant battle of right between the Hutu and the Tutsi religious groups. The Tutsi‚ although being the minority making up only 15-percent of the population‚ enjoyed privileged lives. However‚ following the country’s independence‚ the country experienced three decades of Hutu rule‚ under which the Tutsi faced extreme discrimination and bursts of extermination. This continual struggle between groups‚ and the assassination
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The Rwandan Genocide was one of the world’s worst genocide ever that left several people without families‚ and brought a divide in the country between two ethnic groups‚ the Tutsi and the Hutu‚ and people are still dealing with the effects to this day. The main parties that acted in the Rwandan Genocide were the Hutu‚ the Tutsi‚ the United Nations‚ the United States‚ Belgium‚ France‚ and some neighboring countries of Rwanda were also involved. According to “Rwandan Genocide‚” the cause of the genocide
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Brown 1 Ms. Dewees Senior Seminar 5-22-09 The Rwandan Genocide The Rwandan Genocide was massive killings in 1994. Rwanda was characterized by ethnic divides between the Hutu and Tutsi population. The Tutsis were being targeted no matter what age or gender. Innocent civilians were all unarmed and weren’t given a chance. It established ethnic conflict that would eventually leave Rwanda in great potential for future violence. The genocide escalated from a peaceful background over hundreds of years
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out of control. It’s amazing how ignorant and stubborn the human race can be. This is exactly the response of many nations when it comes to genocide. Genocide is the systematic killing of all the people from a national‚ ethnic‚ or religious group. Two of the most recent genocides in history are the genocide of Rwanda and the genocide of Cambodia. The genocide of Cambodia started on the year of 1975 and ended on 1979. This is considered the Khmer Pogue period‚ where Pol Pot ‚ Nuon Chea‚ Ieng Sary
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Before that genocide in 1994‚ there were many events that built up and led to the dramatic killings. Far before any of this started‚ hunter and gathers populated the area of Rwanda during the stone and iron ages with the Bantu eventually following. In the mid-eighteenth century the country became known as the Kingdom of Rwanda and was ruled by a Tutsi King. The king enacted anti-Hutu polices and this is where the animosity between the Hutu and the Tutsis started. Rwanda became colonized by Germany
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In the 15th century‚ The Tutsis migrated from the horn of africa‚ Ethiopia‚ to Rwanda; home to the Hutu. The invasion was peaceful‚ despite the warrior skills of the Tutsi. Believing in a hierarchical society‚ they set up a monarchy which lasted up until German colonists arrived at Rwanda during WWI. As the war was ending‚ the colonial rule had switched from the Germans to the Belgians. These Belgian colonists saw the taller‚ stronger Tutsi warriors as superior to the Hutus‚ and offered them education
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were the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide? The causes of the Rwandan genocide were deeply seeded to the collapse and struggle for dominance within a previously established hierarchy. The roots of ethnic conflicts often find themselves tied to arbitrary guidelines of division between groups. It is this segregation that leads to a fight for power when a hierarchy becomes destabilized. This is exactly the case with the Rwandan genocide of 1994: the intervention of Belgian colonialism
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The Rwandan Genocide was from April to July of 1994. During the Rwandan Genocide‚ there were two major groups. The two groups were the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Hutus were poor farmers they were the lower class or peasants and did not have a lot of resources or a lot of money. The Hutus was recognized as the ethnic majority of Rwandan. The Hutus appearances were quite different from the Tutsis. The Hutus were darker‚ shorter‚ and uneducated. The Tutsis were cattle farmers and were identified as
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