In just 100 days in 1944 over 800‚000 tutsis were killed in the Rwandan genocide. That is a horrible and shocking fact‚ but the worst fact is that no one stepped in to help them. From 1922 to 1962 Belgium came and took Rwanda over. There were two different kinds of people in Rwanda‚ the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Hutus made up about 85% of Rwanda while the Tutsi was a minority making up only about 14%. Despite being a minority Belgium favored the Tutsi people because of their longer noses and brighter
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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 of European descent. The Tutsis that didn’t
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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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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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MENTALITY AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE HUTUS AND TUTSIS Lisha Villacanas Introduction The Hutus and Tutsis are ethnic groups living in Rwanda. The Tutsis are the minority while the Hutus are considered the majority. They both live in harmony and while they‚ like all tribes have conflict but it was nothing they could not settle. During the pre-colonial era‚ Hutus were the farmers and was marginalized while the Tutsis were the cattle herders‚ soldiers and administers‚ because intermarriage
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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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Tutsi Tutsi is a very interesting ethnic group. They have a lot of culture‚ unique foods‚ and vibrant clothing. The Tutsi ethnic group is located in Central America‚ or to be more specific‚ Burundi and Rwanda. Tutsi is a very largely populated ethnic group. They have over 2.5 million people in their group! Food Tutsi is a very healthy eating group. Some foods they eat include bananas‚ plantains‚ pulses‚ sweet potatoes‚ beans‚ and cassava. They are very into vegetables and
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Hutus and Tutsis Hutus and Tutsis are tribes that live in Rwanda‚ Africa. The history of these two tribes is rather complicated which is why it led to many conflicts between the two tribes throughout the years. In the 2008 BBC News article “Rwanda: How the genocide happened”‚ these two tribes are described as being a like one another. Even though they are named differently‚ they speak the same language‚ inhabit the same areas‚ and also follow the same traditions. The difference between the two
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were the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Hutus were poor farmers they were the lower class or peasants and did not have a lot of resources or a lot of money. The Hutus was recognized as the ethnic majority of Rwandan. The Hutus appearances were quite different from the Tutsis. The Hutus were darker‚ shorter‚ and uneducated. The Tutsis were cattle farmers and were identified as a foreign race. The Tutsis were taller‚ skinnier‚ and well educated. Germany believed that the Tutsis were upper-class and have
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