Tutsi

stand, divided we fall. A country divided by its people cannot be stable for long. Rwanda is divided into two main ethnic groups, the Tutsi (minority) and the Hutu (majority). Tensions were already high between the two groups, but the alleged assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana triggered the Rwandan Genocide on April 6, 1994. The Hutu started to kill the Tutsi, resulting in 800,000 casualties. Many would think that this event would leave to a larger split between the two groups, but…

Genocide took place in 1994. It was a was a war between two very similar ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi people. The Hutu had hatred towards the Tutsi for many reasons and when they had the opportunity to come into power they did. People do not notice that genocides occur all over the world, for…

the Rwanda’s population. The other group were the RPF (Tutsis) which were minority ,but had long dominated Rwanda for many years. “In just 100 days in 1994, some 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists.”.(Par 1) This had caused the Tutsis to fled away from the country. The event that really struck the genocide was the plane being shot down that President Juvenal Habyarimana was in and Hutus immediately blamed the Tutsis for this attack. This gave the Hutus a reason to…

Upon arrival Belgium acknowledged the 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…

commenced immediately after that, under the disguise of war he extremist Hutu sought to slaughter the entire Tutsi population sought to completely slaughter the tutsi population, Political leaders who might have been able to conduct the situation in a calm manner and all other high profile opponents of the Hutu extremist plan were killed immediately. The tutsi and those suspected of being Tutsi were killed inside their homes and their families were slaughtered as well, women were systematically…

Throughout history people have always attempted to eliminate each other for various reasons. In April 1994 Rwanda was in a brutal between the ethnic groups the Hutus and Tutsis. The Hutus led a genocide against another ethnic group the Tutsi in a gruesome civil war. Jean Hatzfeld’s book Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak. Hatzfeld interviews with a group of Hutu mass murderers that were all friends and came from the same region. Hatzfeld argues that the genocide was a politically…

Hutus are killing the Tutsis. The simple reason that Velcourt is disregarding the people within Kigali purposely giving each other AIDS leads to a life of difficulties. Velcourt is a Canadian who is visiting Rwanda to make a…

European superiority and racist practices were influenced on the Hutus and Tutsi people. Tutsi minority claimed that they were superior than the Hutus majority based on physical features. When the majority overthrew the minority they kept their division. Scapegoating and coups are two other elements that support my theory about racism and genocide. Scapegoating led to propaganda against the Tutsi people and the death of the Hutu president led them to a genocide. The Holocaust had similar…

were murdered, a rate 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,…

policy called, “unity and reconciliation,” which has help empower the women, and has help stabilize the economy. Rwanda has had conflict with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DCR) since 1996 because many Hutus who participated in the killings of Tutsis fled there. The conflict still exist and 5 million people have died because of the conflict between DCR and Rwanda (Board, The Editorial). Currently, Rwanda has see tremendous growth with their economy. The president of Rwanda, President Paul…