The Hutu Tribe The culture of the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Rwanda‚ Africa interests me for many reasons. One reason is that they are so diverse from our American way of life. Another reason is that I have heard a little bit about them in the news and by talking to people. This sparked my interest and made me want to learn more about them. I will cover a wide variety of information in my report. This will include the land where they live‚ their way of life‚ their history and ancestry‚ and what
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farmers. I would never know the difference between Hutu and Tutsi if I did not learn it from school‚ family and peers. School was the first place that taught me the concept of Tutsi and Hutu. I attended a Catholic school but the national Rwandan Board of Education set the curriculum. During the first week of the school year‚ there was what I call the census of Hutus and Tutsis. They asked Hutus to go on one side of the room and Tutsis on the other side. The majority of students was confused and
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genocide represented a last attempt at survival. The Hutu and Tutsi people have a similar past to each other. When Rwanda was settled‚ the Tutsi people were the people who owned most of the cattle and the rest of the people were the Hutu. It was when the Germans colonised Rwanda
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July of 1994‚ more than half a million Tutsi people were murdered. Some sources say that the Rwandan genocide should be renamed “The genocide against the Tutsi” because not both groups were affected. The mass killing took place in Rwanda‚ located in Africa near the equator. It is one of the most populated countries in Africa‚ and is also one of the poorest countries in the world. The feud started because Rwanda was under the Belgian administration and the Tutsi were being treated better than the Hutu
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genocide. To understand why these women were treated this way you first need to know the background off the genocide. The Rwandan genocide was caused by a power struggle between the two dominant tribes in both Rwanda and Burundi. The Hutu and the Tutsi. They had been massacring each other in those two countries for decades after independence and a civil war between the two groups
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genocide was an atrocity that marked an age of unrest and violence in Central Africa. A nation unbalanced for years had finally imploded‚ leading to the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis. This genocide was the result of multiple things‚ creating instability and unbalancing the relationship between the Tutsis and the Hutus. Tensions built up for decades were finally released. While many would blame Belgium‚ Germany‚ and colonization for catalyzing the genocide‚ there were many other factors involved
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people who at the time were a majority‚ as slaves. The Belgian’s favored the Tutsi because they looked more “white”. The belgians would look at the skin tone‚ the size of their lips and the width of the bridge of their noses to determine this. The Belgians put the Tutsi people in charge of the Hutu’s but when the Belgians decided to leave the area they left the Hutu people in charge. The Hutu were furious with the Tutsi for all the years of forced slavery they had to endure by their fellow countrymen
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Rwanda tackles a recent event in history where the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide‚ massacring approximately 800‚000 minority Tutsi who had been given total power by the Belgian colonists‚ while the rest of the world looked on and did nothing. The Hutu killed the Tutsi people because they thought the Tutsi were being excessively rude to them. It is important to recognize the similarities in Night and Hotel Rwanda because if we did not keep a close watch on these
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The Rwandan Genocide was a mass killing of the Tutsis. Rwanda is an East African country with a mountainous terrain known for its volcanoes‚ golden monkeys‚ and gorillas; aside from that is home to 11.8 million people. A genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction‚ in whole or in a part of an ethnic‚ racial‚ religious‚ or national groups. It is the killing with intentions to groups by causing mental harm‚ preventing births‚ inflicting conditions of life‚ or transferring children to other
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the horrible atrocities of that genocide to the public eye. However‚ it is not only in Rwanda that the Hutu have been involved in ethnic war. The country of Burundi‚ a neighbor to Rwanda‚ was the site of the first violence between the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Hutu people of Burundi have a rich culture and history that has been largely overshadowed by ethnic conflict. The Hutu are a Bantu tribe numbering about thirteen million (Newbury 2001). Traditionally the Hutu organized themselves in clans
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