American Imperialism In Rwanda

Rwanda; a multicultural African country with more than ten million inhabitants, has a village called Banyarauanda which has three different ethnic groups; Tutsis, Hutus and Twas. These ethnic groups share the same culture, languages and some tasks such as agriculture and livestock. Moreover, when the Tutsis was in charge of the small town; monarchy, everything was peaceful and equitable; however, in 1923 Banyarauanda became a Belgian colony with a different way of rule where the Tutsis was a superior class; more civilized and closer to Europeans. “Tutsis was Europeans under a black skin, more intelligent and more suitable for the government” (Museo memoria y Tolerancia, 2015). This new way of racism made a social bomb in Rwanda where the Hutus started to abhor the Tutsis for their new privileges and status.

Despite having a privileged position; the Tutsis joined the anti-colonialist; a recent movement with the objective of the end off the colonial period emerging the African Continent, with this move the Belgians with the support of the Catholic …show more content…
After a general overview of the Rwanda genocide, it can perform an examination of the three levels of analysis; individual, state and international and with this; make possible proposals for the solution of the fact.

First of all, in the individual analysis, it can see that the president; Habyarimana, took the power and decided keep the genocide between Hutus and Tutsis this simple but, important action is a very good example of the individual analysis; moreover, when Paul Kagame; leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, claimed victory when he arrived in Kigali it´s another illustration of individual decision that change all the directions and the consequences of this protruding