ethnic group. And in this case the Hutus’ target were the Tutsis. They were of the same language. They practiced the same cultural traditions. They were of the same race. The only difference was power. And that’s what drove the genocide. When the Europeans helped colonize Rwanda‚ they gave the more powerful positions‚ like jobs in the government‚ to the Tutsis. One of the few high ranking spots that a Hutu obtained was President. Their reasoning was that the Tutsis looked more developed and looked
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reaction to the documentary is that the Hutu’s were very violent towards the Tutsi. Hutu made me feel disgusted with the way they were acting like gang members taking innocent people’s lives torturing the Tutsi. I can’t believe they went as far as killing those girls at the school as shown in the documentary. The fact that they were on the radio naming those they were going to kill and saying you can basically kill Tutsis was unbelievable. Going as far as killing children was what stunned me the most
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Assess the proposition that the ethnic rivalry between the Hutus and Tutsi people was the main contributing factor in the outbreak of the Rwandan Genocide In 1994. When assessing ethnic rivalry between the Hutus and the Tutsi it is evident that it was one of the significant factors that lead to the Rwandan Genocide. However‚ other contributing factors such as‚ the assassination of both the Rwandan and Burundi Presidents‚ the flaws in the demographic nature of the country‚ and the economic stance
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Hutu and the minority Tutsi people started the Rwandan genocide. In the past Rwanda had been a Belgian state. The Belgians had favored the Tutsi minority due to their European appearance. At initially‚ bolstered by the Belgians‚ the Tutsis had controlled Rwanda. Be that as it may‚ somewhere around 1959 and 1962 the Hutu’s revolted and beat the Tutsi government. The minority Tutsis had then been dealt with term oil therefore. In 1990 a revolt bunch made principally out of Tutsis situated in neighboring
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Media Propaganda The cover of the December 1993 issue of Kangura. The title states‚ "Tutsi: Race of God"‚ while the text to the right of the machete states‚ "Which weapons are we going to use to beat the cockroaches for good?". The man pictured is the second president of the First Republic‚ Grégoire Kayibanda‚ who made Hutu the governing ethnicity after the 1959 massacres. According to recent commentators the news media played a crucial role in the genocide: local print and radio media fuelled
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neither left Rwanda politically nor economically prepared for any independence‚ thus creating a kind of insecurity in most regions of the country. I will then show the discrimination and the tribal causes based on the misunderstandings between Hutu and Tutsi. In the third part I will discuss the political instability that has been one of the relevant causes of the war in Rwanda. Next‚ I will investigate the economical causes. Firstly‚ westerners’ colonial influence in Africa has played a strong role in
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between the Hutus and the Tutsis of Rwanda. Rwanda is located near Uganda‚ Congo‚ and Tanzania. These countries are located in Africa. Due to the location of Rwanda it caused controversy because many countries surrounding it wanted to take control over it. It caused tension between multiple countries and sparked a war which lead to a genocide. There are three groups in Rwanda – Hutu‚ Tutsi‚ and Twa. The Twa group was initially the first group to settle in Rwanda and was soon followed by the Hutus and then
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Genocide the Hutus killed many Tutsi. In Rwanda a small‚ poor‚ central African country genocide broke out which left 800‚000+ Tutsis dead. In this paper I will tell you about the history between the Tutsi and the Hutus‚ the hundred days of genocide in 1994‚ also what happened to the people and economy. The Tutsi and the Hutus tribes weren’t always enemies they lived in peace for many years till 1994 a large scale incident finally sparked the two tribes. Leading up to1994 war between the Tutsi and Hutus
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eliminate the Tutsi tribe. The Tutsis and Hutus of Rwanda did not do the whole entire genocide alone‚ in fact they had help from the Belgians. Before the Belgians colonized Rwanda‚ the Hutus and Tutsis and Twa got along well and there was peace in Rwanda. After the Belgians instituted a classification system making Tutsis more superior tension began to rise between the two tribes. This rivalry lasted for a long time until the turning point of when the president of Rwanda died. The Hutus were furious
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farmers. I would never know the difference between Hutu and Tutsi if I did not learn it from school‚ family and peers. School was the first place that taught me the concept of Tutsi and Hutu. I attended a Catholic school but the national Rwandan Board of Education set the curriculum. During the first week of the school year‚ there was what I call the census of Hutus and Tutsis. They asked Hutus to go on one side of the room and Tutsis on the other side. The majority of students was confused and
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