The Causes And Effects Of Imperialism In Rwanda

Nowadays, European countries such as England, France, Germany, Belgium, and many other countries possess a colossal clout throughout the world. It is an impeccable fact that such countries, indeed, have served as a rudiment pivot and step for the world to be advanced to the point where we are since the Industrial Revolution. Such countries, because of it, without a doubt, have a crucial status globally and become the superpower and commercial hub on our planet. On the back side of their gleaming growth, however, there is an invisible part left behind their luminous development: the Imperialism. The term “Imperialism” refers to a policy of extending a country’s authority and political clout by using its military forces and diplomacy. As Frantz
It is noteworthy that Rwanda is one of the countries that an echo of tragedy from the imperialism pervades all over the nation. Rwanda is a country that consists of 85% of Hutus, 14% of Tutsis, and 1% of Twa. Both Germany, and Belgium took over the control of Rwanda in 1916; however, Belgium, exclusively, is responsible for such an echo of tragedy. Belgium, as it is mentioned, conquered over Rwanda in 1916 and started giving privileges to Tutsis only since Tutsis had a better ethnic features: a whiter skin color, longer nose, and many others. The privileges only for Tutsis included a high-quality-education, military supports, health cares, political backings and public works. This, indeed, rendered a rudiment stage for future predicaments in Rwanda. Belgium government also promoted policies that underscored the superiority of Tutsis and forced all Rwandan creates their own identification card indicating either Tutsi, or Hutu. These cards, later on, were devised by Hutu to easily identify whether one is Tutsi or not during the Rwanda Genocide. Overall, all the things conducted by the Belgium government rendered a further segregation of ethnics between Tutsis and Hutus. After Belgium left Rwanda on 1st July 1962 with the United Nations’ pressures on Belgium to end its reign in Rwanda, Hutu president was voted into governing
Paul Rusesabagina, a manager of the Hotel Mille Collins in Kigali, Rwanda, in the movie, attempts to save every Tutsi and Hutu refugee and furnish a safe shelter for the refugees, whereas the world decides to neglect the situation going on in Rwanda. He urges all Tutsis and Hutus call the foreign countries so as to at least try to increase the chance of getting saved. He uses a myriad of approaches to not only shelter those people, but also get aids from foreign country, making time for Tutsi rebels drove the Hutu army and the Interhamwe militia, Kinyarwanda word meaning “those who attack together” and in a manner of speaking, a gang that was trained to kill Tutsis, across the border into Congo. The Hutu army uses a radio as a means of communication: “Alert, watch your neighbors and Tutsis are invader! Rwanda is our country! Wake up Hutus! Kill the invaders!” Hutu army said. Paul, according to the movie, sheltered at least 1268 Tutsis and Hutus at the hotel. The Times, moreover, once mentioned “there are no devils left in Hell”, the missionary said. “They are all in Rwanda”. Rwanda genocide, without his aids toward the refugees, could have left behind more corpses and gone into unprecedented limbo. According to the information gathered by the United Nations, it