Hutu

example of this is the systematic extermination of an estimated 800,000 Tutsi people in Rwanda that occurred in 1994. In an already hostile relationship between the two main groups of Rwanda, tensions flared after the murder of the Hutu president at the time. This provoked the Hutu to conspire against and begin spreading propaganda that resulted in the mass killings of the Tutsi and politically moderate Hutus. As these events transpired in Rwanda over the course of 100 days, there were little…

However, for the most part, colonialism ended up hurting the area more than helping. The already clashing peoples of the Hutu and Tutsi were pulled farther apart from Belgian control, the Belgians favoring the already powerful Tutsi and further separating the two ethnic groups (22). Most Europeans highly favored the Tutsi, preferring their tall stature and lighter skin. The…

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…

As we speak people are dying. A few week ago the African nation of Rwanda’s government (Hutus) started killing the Tutsis. We had information that the Hutu government was planning a mass killing but decided not to act on these fact. This was a mistake because after the president of Rwanda’s plane was shot down resulting in his death the killing started. Hutus have been killing anyone who is labeled a Tutsis. Tens of thousands have died. We must act now because 1) this is a genocide, 2)…

Tutsis and a regain of Hutu power, they took it which resulted into mass killings that the government allowed and Immaculeè Ilibigiza was left to share the story of what happened. The ethnic split between the Hutus and Tutsis was a negative present at the time as many Tutsi rebels, called RPF, had been exiled…

Tutsi’s coming in the first place, was to understand the increasing tensions that culminated in a genocide. The Hutu are generally recognized as the ethnical majority of people in Rwanda. The racialist ideology of the Tutsi were often identified as a foreign race. This caused a lot of difficulty and conflict between the Tutsis and the Hutu people. The Tutsis finally settled with the Hutu, after much conflict ensued. That considered, it still took them a long while to co-exist in a normal…

made between the Hutu and Tutsi people. The Tutsi people were then targeted by the dominant group, the Hutu, and were made powerless. In this case, many of them were exiled for being a part of the Tutsi group. Propaganda was spread throughout Rwanda against the Tutsi people, made to dehumanize that group and encourage Hutu civilians to also want to exterminate these people. And also there were many willing participants within the government to carry out the genocide, in fact it was Hutu…

independence, the Belgians began giving the Hutus more and more power. When Rwanda gained independence in 1962, it left these made up ethnic groups in tension. After Rwanda gained independence, the ‘Hutu Power’ drove out the majorities of Tutsis into other countries. By then 85% of Rwanda’s population was Hutu, 14% being Tutsi. After decades of tension and discrimination, in 1990, civil war broke out in Rwanda. The RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) formed, comprised mostly of Tutsis because…

in a society that promoted the Hutus as the colonial master’s preferred ruling elite. In July 1973, following a decade of anti-Tutsi violence and murder that had forced over 350,000 Tutsis into exile, the Hutu elite split and the National Revolutionary Movement for Development (MRND), led by Hutu Major-General Juvnal Habyarimana, installed itself as a one-party dictatorship in a bloodless coup. Although discrimination continued against the Tutsi community, not many massacres occurred between…

colony from 1887 to 1963, Rwanda was under the control of Germany and then later Belgium, where a class system was created and the minority Tutsi highly favored over the majority Hutu as it was determined that the Tutsi possessed ‘‘advanced intelligence. Hence, the colonial powers engaged in the self-fulfilling prophecy…