Tutsi

The Rwanda genocide was an ethnic issue that created a lot of social tension with Rwanda. The Tutsi people were brought out because of their own rebel group who had to fight off with the Hutu people (eventually becoming victors of that war). The aftermath of the Rwanda Genocide was disastrous, and they lacked adequate food and clean water. Outside…

into three groups, the Tutsis, Hutus, and the Twa, the Belgians gave the Tutsis more power and believed they were superior. Right before Rwanda gained 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…

what he has done, but because of who he is.”, this is the exact definition of the Rwandan Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide happened in Rwanda on April 7, 1994 and lasted for 100 days. This genocide was done by the Hutus an ethnic group in Rwanda to the Tutsis also in Rwanda. In those days over 800,000 people died. It was total chaos, neighbors were killing neighbors, women were being raped, and this genocide left the country broken. There were three main causes that lead to this genocide, they are…

The ethnic tension in Rwanda is caused by two groups: the Hutu and the Tutsis. When Belgian colonized Rwanda they gave out identification cards to classify the natives by ethnicity. The Belgian’s favored the Tutsis despite the majority of the people being Hutus. So the Tutsis’ had access to better jobs and educational opportunities due to the Belgians favoritism. This caused the Hutu to resent the Tutsis. There are practically no differences between the two groups. They both share the same…

April 6 1994. The French judge blamed the current Rwanda President Paul Kagame because they thought that he carried out the rocket attack. The death of the president was the no means of Africa’s greatest genocide. The war broke out in 1990 between the Tutsis and the Hutu.…

Rwanda, that is precisely what happened. The death of the Rwandan President, Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, is what sparked the genocide in 1994. Blamed for this was the current President, Paul Kagame, who at the time of the genocide was the Leader of a Tutsi rebel group, and his close partners for carrying out of the death of the president. After this tensions were high and did not end until three months later resulting in close to 1 million deaths. The Albertine Rift, which is 920 miles long,…

dehumanization of the Tutsis by the Hutus characterized this 1994 conflict in Rwanda as a genocide because it made the Tutsis seem…

In the case of the Genocide of Rwanda, the government and those representing the power in the society played the most significant role in this extermination. Particularly, the ambiguity of the situation was the starting point of their informative influence. Since the massacre happened within hours after the President’s plane crash, Rwanda residents did not have time to think that the authority figures were already ordering them executing their plan (Keane, 1995). In this atmosphere of crisis,…

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 took Rwanda…

ruling race. The Tutsis were the superiors of the two groups and the Hutu though that they should be because they had more in numbers. The Hutus thought they were supposed to be the rulers of Rwanda so they had begun the eight stages of a genocide. After the genocide had ended, the Hutus had continues a smaller amount of killing to cover up the fact that a genocide had occurred. Based on fear and governmental attacks in Rwanda, the Hutus committed acts of genocide against the Tutsi during a…