Rwanda Genocide Consequences
What 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 produced strong ethnic stratification that once undermined by the abandonment of Belgian control, lead to mass murder, degradation of peace and longstanding ethnic tensions all in pursuit of wealth and power. Much of the conflict between
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 produced strong ethnic stratification that once undermined by the abandonment of Belgian control, lead to mass murder, degradation of peace and longstanding ethnic tensions all in pursuit of wealth and power. Much of the conflict between