Cause And Effects Of The Rwanda Genocide

In the years that created Rwanda nothing was more known the genocide that took place in that country. It was known all over the world and is still taught in schools today. The events that took place before the genocide has had a part in helping get the citizens in Rwanda to commit this act. As this was going on in Rwanda the international community did not help and the rest of the world watched and tried to make sense of what was happening. The Rwanda genocide was caused by years and years of oppression. The Germans were the first to divide the people of Rwanda in to power groups. Rwanda has two different people to start with but they lived in peace until the countries tried to colonize them. When the explorers arrived they saw that they all shared the same language but yet were divided by looks and tribes. First the Hutu’s made up the lower class and the Tutsi’s were the upper class, but they intermarried and lived beside each other. When the explores came and they started to colonize Rwanda, they split the Hutu’s and the Tutsi into power groups. The Hutu had a bigger nose …show more content…
Going through something as horrible as the Rwanda genocide the brain might not be able to comprehend what had happened. As this was happening many people were not able to comprehend what was happening in Rwanda. One the biggest questions that people asks is why, when people do something that they do not understand. The hardest thing to understand was how just one day the half the people in Rwanda were able to turn into killers over night. It is understandable that they were treated badly throughout colonization but turning around and killing the people was not that way to handle it. It was not the people they ended up killing fault. They were not the ones who decided how to run the