The Rwandan genocide in 1994 was a brutal and a terrible conflict where many people were slaughtered due to the oppression of tribes and the many causes that followed. I’ am going to split this essay into four categories; 1: what caused it to happen/ reasons why, 2: how it happened and 3. Why wasn’t there more involvement from outside forces in the beginning and last but not least 4.the effects it caused on the country today?
1. What caused it to happen/Reasons why
The event and causes to the Rwandan genocide was due to the fact that there was firstly great tension between the major tribes the Tutsis and the Hutus the reason was because the Tutsis this was a conflict due to status where the Tutsis were seen have a greater social status, higher class and more wealth than the Hutus who were seen as the lower class of the country, the first sign of tension came about in Burundi 1972 when the first elections came after winning their independence in …show more content…
Due to these killings the Tutsi president Michel Micombero responded to this by declaring martial law and setting the genocide of the Hutus in place. This first wave of this ended up in wiping all of the educated Hutus (according to my source: by June nearly 45 percent of teachers were reported missing and students at technical schools were reported as well) and by the time this was over in May nearly 5 percent of the Hutu population had been slaughtered (source estimates range from 100000 up to 300000 Hutus). By 1993 the presidential office was won by the Hutus with Melchior Ndadye therefore forming the first government since independence from Belgium in 1962 with elections that had been accepted/allowed by the Ruling Tutsis but shortly after that Ndadye was assassinated. The assassination set the country back into
1. What caused it to happen/Reasons why
The event and causes to the Rwandan genocide was due to the fact that there was firstly great tension between the major tribes the Tutsis and the Hutus the reason was because the Tutsis this was a conflict due to status where the Tutsis were seen have a greater social status, higher class and more wealth than the Hutus who were seen as the lower class of the country, the first sign of tension came about in Burundi 1972 when the first elections came after winning their independence in …show more content…
Due to these killings the Tutsi president Michel Micombero responded to this by declaring martial law and setting the genocide of the Hutus in place. This first wave of this ended up in wiping all of the educated Hutus (according to my source: by June nearly 45 percent of teachers were reported missing and students at technical schools were reported as well) and by the time this was over in May nearly 5 percent of the Hutu population had been slaughtered (source estimates range from 100000 up to 300000 Hutus). By 1993 the presidential office was won by the Hutus with Melchior Ndadye therefore forming the first government since independence from Belgium in 1962 with elections that had been accepted/allowed by the Ruling Tutsis but shortly after that Ndadye was assassinated. The assassination set the country back into