Hutu

The Hutu prisoners tell how the killings took place and how they responded to the killings that would eventually begin to consume their daily lives. The men do not have trouble recalling the very first time they killed, for several of these men had never actually killed before, including small animals that were to become their dinner. One would assume that the killing of humans would be done with a psychopathic mindset, yet these men were not psychopaths they were farmers who worked in the fields by day and returned home to their families at night. They were not killers by nature, but somehow they turned in to cold blooded killers in the blink of an eye. The men tell of their first murders in detail, such as whom and how they killed, but only…

The Tutsi and the Hutu are two of the largest population division in Rwanda and Burundi. Hutu being the largest and Tutsi being the second largest, both which inhabit the African Great Lakes region. “The Hutu are the majority of the Rwandan people, with about 10 million Hutu in the Rwandan and Burundi area” (The Rwandan Genocide). Even though the Hutu is the majority of the population, the Tutsi has made sure that the Hutu will not get any significant positions in the government. The Hutu are…

My personal framework for handling conflict is based primarily on working towards mutual understanding. Taking the ongoing Hutu and Tutsi conflict into consideration, I would take into consideration the issue at large and then narrow it down to each parties similarities in order to encourage unity that will open up the field for collaborative conflict management. By working towards a mutual understanding of each side then there will be more opportunity for communication and resolution. Before…

country of Rwanda, played host to one of the most vicious genocides of the twentieth century. This tiny country, with a population of approximately 7,500,000 people in 1994, lost nearly 1,000,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu people living there to bloody conflict. In the years leading up to the genocide, there were many underlying issues waiting to bubble over into full-blown conflict. Part of the conflict in Rwanda was the ethnic division between the Hutu and Tutsi people, as well as the…

groups: Hutu (85%), Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%). The Twa were the first inhabitants of the land who settled in there between 8000 BC and 3000 BC. Accordingly, historians…

While colonization may have attributed to a significant portion of Hutu and Tutsi polarization, it is clear that eventually, tensions would grow to a level in which one of the groups would rebel. And, while the rise of the RPF may have been due to Hutu expulsion of Tutsi’s as a result of colonization, it is clear Habyarimana was not a leader capable of holding a country together. Without imperial powers, stability may have remained for longer, however, a collapse in order between the Hutus and…

In addition, the government’s rejection of ethnic identifiers for genocide identifiers brought about a disregard of victimized Hutus who suffered at the hands of the Interhamwe and blamed them for the genocide, isolating Hutu survivors from Tutsi survivors and splitting the victims left alive in society. The Rwanda government changed the way it identified people, from an ethnic identifier to a genocidal identifier. According to Zorbas, “Dropping the ethnic labels in favor of a ‘genocide…

precursor to the Rwandan genocide. Colonial ideals persisted even after Rwanda was free from colonial rule. Racial division and the marginalization of the Hutu were the remnants of decolonization. Prior to colonization, classifications that distinguished the Hutu from the Tutsi were primarily based on occupation and differences in working and social class rather than by racial differences. The margins that separated the working and social classes were quite flexible and both the Tutsi and the…

The present essay will investigate some of the underlying conditions that make this genocide possible, including politics (like involvement of other countries or government propaganda), power of dehumanization and fear of violence. For this purpose, we will refer to left to tell, a book written by Immaculee Ilibagiza, one of the survivors of Rwanda genocide, whenever is necessary. One of the main causes of the genocide in Rwanda can be traced back to the period of colonial rule…

As a result of devastating conflicts, the average person in Burundi makes only 560 USD a year; which is barely enough to feed themselves about three months; there is not much happiness in Burundi. More than 66% of the nation are below the poverty line and over 58% of the whole population is starving and/or malnourished. The nation fell into this extreme poverty and starvation about 15 years ago; during a period of civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes. The civil war ended in 2005, but the…