Hutu

the Genocide events that took place in Rwanda in the year 1994. The war was propagated by the crisis between the Tutsi and the Hutu people. The Hutu ethnic community rose against their counterparts, the Tutsis, and blamed them for the increasing social, economic and political pressures in the nation. Due to the incitement from the Hutu political elites in leadership, the Hutu community, the majority, began to exterminate the Tutsis, the minority. The Genocide which lasted for one hundred days…

Questions: 1 - What event(s) from the past have directly impacted/led to your topic/event? 2 - What are two ways that your topic or event impacts/relates to modern day society? Main Idea Thesis: Although many people felt the assassination of the Hutu President led directly to the genocide, it was really because of the years of inequality between the Hutus and Tutsis. In modern day many Tutsi survivors found it difficult to live in Rwanda where the genocide occurred, but some survivors found…

difference between two groups, the Tutsi and the Hutu, and separated them into separate groups even identifying who belonged to each group on identification cards. The Tutsi at the time were favored by the Europeans and given the positions of power within the country, which lead to the systematic oppression of the Hutu population. During the 1950’s the Tutsi began to support decolonization, which lead Belgium to switch sides and support the, now very large, Hutu population (3). During this time…

The two main ethnic groups of the country, the Hutu and the Tutsi, had been put against each other by the countries that colonized them. It all started with the Germans. They were the first to colonize and take over Rwanda. However, they were not there for long. Soon after their arrival, the Belgians…

that surpassed the Nazis in their killing of the Jews during the Holocaust. The perpetrators of these murders were a Rwandan ethnic group called the Hutu and their victims were not only of a separate ethnic tribe known as the Tutsi. Why and how were thousands of Hutus mobilized and able to so effectively carry out such an act of mass violence? Hutu political and military elite fearing an imminent loss of absolute power utilized long standing ethnic tensions,…

occurring in the country, and that investigations confirmed the direct involvement of multiple government officials. These particular individuals encouraged the massacres performed by the Hutu chauvinists and the Rwandese security forces, supplied them with the equipment necessary, and attempted to further spread Hutu supremacism. There were a number of those who also assisted in the planning of the killings, directed the operations, and some of which that even participated themselves. Certain…

terrific year for the nation's history. More than 800,000 Tutsi were brutally massacred at the machetes of Hutu while the entire world stood by and watched. What was the reason of this conflict? How was it possible to allow for such escalation of hatred? The main reason of such a tragedy can be tied to European colonialism in Rwanda. The Europeans succesfully birthed an ethnic divide between the Hutu (85% of Rwandan polulation) and Tutsi (12% of Rwandan population) that led to the Rwandan…

In 1957, Hutu scholars wrote the “Bahutu Manifesto”. Detailed in the document was the foundation for a Hutu majority Rwanda; the manifesto claimed that Rwanda should be Hutu controlled based on statistical law. Also in the document Tutsi and Hutu are labeled as separate races that can only co-exist in a Hutu government. The manifesto called for a double liberation of the Hutu people: from the European colonials, and also from the Tutsi “Cockroaches”…

social constructivism, and the drive of Hutu elites to maintain their sovereignty supported by two journals by scholars Peter Uvin and Helen Hintjens. Each scholar explains the main influences of a nation that…

knowledge for help. In April 6th, 1994, an airplane holding President Habyarimana was shot down killing him and the rest of it’s passengers. Habyarimana was of the Hutu population and the Hutus believed that a member of the Tutsi population had to do with this killing. This caused a mass killing in the country of Rwanda ran by the Interahamwe, a Hutu ran organization whose mission was to eliminate all Tutsi that was trained by the French (5). Attacks persisted for one hundred days and by…