this war took place‚ the Hutu people made and launched plans to wipe out the Tutsi population. The Hutus were majorly successful in this act‚ and during the uyear 1994‚ killed approximately 800‚000 Tutsi men‚ women and children. This was caused by the hutu’s rise to power. they were the majority of the population‚ and they wanted to gain and keep power of the country. the war and genocide ended only when the RPF‚ a Tutsi-dominated rebel group‚ defeated the Hutu perpetrators and a new president took
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estimated 800‚000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. * The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana‚ a Hutu‚ when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994. * A French judge has blamed current Rwandan President‚ Paul Kagame - at the time the leader of a Tutsi rebel group - and some of his close associates for carrying out the rocket attack
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(Hintjens). Many have argued that even as all these were contributing factors‚ the main cause of the Rwandan genocide was the involvement of both the Belgian and the German colonial policies (Man 2005). The two main ethnic groups in Rwanda‚ the Hutus and the Tutsis lived in harmony for many years‚ but with the new born idea of “divide and rule” brought by
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colonized and made them feel superior to others.In Rwanda ‚ the imperialist nation believed that Tutsi were born to be a leader ‚ so the Tutsi were put in power.How did tensions between the two ethnic groups after decolonization sparked the Rwandan Genocide? Years before the genocide took place‚ Rwanda was colonized by Belgium .The Belgians divided Rwanda population into two groups ‚ the Hutu ‚the Tutsi and Twa in order to strengthen their control of Rwanda. As stated by the American University Washington
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of four months (Britannica). The conflict between two tribal groups‚ the Hutu and Tutsis‚ had been accumulating for decades before it finally reached its breaking point. The Rwandan genocide can be attributed to three main factors: Belgian colonial policies‚ tribal tensions between the Hutus and Tutsis‚ and the assassination of the Rwandan president. Before European colonization Rwanda was united under a total Tutsi government. All of the people‚ although different tribes‚ spoke the same language
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country’s Hutu president was assassinated. The Hutus blamed the murder on the hated Tutsi minority and took up firearms and murdered many of their Tutsi neighbors. The political situation was about to explode. Two ethnic groups‚ the Tutsis and the Hutus had been turned against each other by the white Belgian settlers‚ who literally measured skin tone and nose width to elevate the Tutsis to preferred positions. In a few months‚ more than one million Tutsi men‚ women and children were harshly murdered
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Rwanda was first a kingdom divided into three ethnic groups: Tutsi‚ Hutu‚ and Twa. The Tutsis (14% of the population) were the in charge of the cattle‚ the Hutus (85% of the population) were the farmers‚ and the Twa (1% of the population) were the servants. The Tutsis were the upper class and the Hutus were vassals. Cattle measured wealth in Rwanda‚ the more cows you had the richer you were considered. During the late 19th Century‚ Rwanda was still considered a kingdom and it was lead by Kigeli IV
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themes of world history. The movie begins in Rwanda in the early 1990’s‚ when racial tensions between the two major ethnic groups‚ Hutus and Tutsis‚ have led to a civil war. After the Hutu president is killed‚ Hutu extremists begin a mass-slaughter of the Tutsis. Paul Rusesabagina‚ who is the manager of the Hotel des Milles Collines‚ is a Hutu‚ but his wife is a Tutsi. Tutsi neighbors run to Paul for shelter from the extremists‚ and at first‚ Paul is reluctant to provide them protection in the Milles
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Landlocked in the heart of Africa with a population of just over eight million and a Gross Domestic Product of USD 700 ‚ Burundi differentiates itself as a unique outlier among case studies of African democratic experiments. Its first attempt at a democratic transition in 1993 spiraled into a decade long bloodbath‚ though this latest stretch of warfare continues a history defined by cyclical violence. Often omitted from the history books‚ what Stephen Weissman calls “the first clear genocide since
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citizens viewed themselves as one people. In 1916‚ Belgium colonized Rwanda‚ introducing a system of identity cards separating the majority Hutus from the minority Tutsis. The Tutsis were given preference in education‚ jobs and power. In 1959‚ when Rwanda gained independence‚ the Hutus rebelled and took over the government‚ exiling and killing Tutsis. In 1990 a Tutsi-led‚ multi-ethnic rebel group‚ the Rwandan Patriotic Force (RPF)‚ invaded from Uganda. French troops intervened. The invasion ended when
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