Canadians Are Blame For The Rwandan Genocide

For years, Rwanda has been a hotbed of racial tension. The majority of the Rwandan population is made up of Hutu's, with Tutsi's making up the rest of it. Ever since European colonial powers entered the country and favoured the Tutsi ethnic group over the Hutu by putting Tutsi people in all important positions in society, there has been a decisive political divide between the two groups. This favouring of the Tutsi over the Hutu, and the Hutu subjugation as an ethnic lower class resulted in the civil war and revolution of 1959, where the Hutu overthrew the Tutsi dominated government, and resulted in Rwanda gaining their independence in 1962.

After the atrocities of the Rwandan Genocide and the lack on international intervention, Rwandan was forced to rebuild itself from scratch. Rwanda is a small country located in central Africa. Its population is divided between two ethnic groups: the hutus and the tutsis. The roots of the Rwandan genocide date back to 1924 when Belgium first took over Rwanda, formally a part of Tanzania. The Belgians viewed Tutsi superior to the hutus. Many referred to this as Hamitic hypothesis. It was motivated mainly by the fact that Tutsi were taller and thinner than hutus. This lead to a major boost in Tutsi egos and mistreatment of the Hutus for decades. This angered the Hutus leading to a major conflict between the two ethnic groups.

Rwanda was a small country in Africa that had two ethncitys occupying it. The superior ethncity. The Tutsi mistreated the Hutu. When the Hutu were repersented with the chance to retaliate they took it. For a while the Hutu and the Tutsi lived as equals, and lived peacfully. Until power fell into

Twenty years ago in the small east African country of Rwanda, eight hundred thousand people, mostly those of the Tutsi tribe, were slaughtered by their own government. The Hutu and the Tutsi tribes followed the same traditions and inhabited the same territory for over a thousand years. The rise of conflict between the Tutsi and the Hutu dates back to 1918, when the Germans lost their colonies following World War I, and the Belgians took control of Rwanda. In 1933, the Belgians establish the superiority of the "Tutsi" over the "Hutu" which lead to a great divide between these two groups (Admin of PBS.org). When the Belgians handed over power to the Hutu majority, a deep resentment of

April to July 1994 is stamped by the “darkest and most brutal tragedy of our time.” During this 100-day mass genocide, the world watched as 800,000 Tutsi men, women, and children were slaughtered at the forefront of history. It is hard to believe that yet another mass genocide was justified by ethnic differences. The conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Rwanda was deep seeded in the period long before Rwandan independence. The tension between these two groups can be traced back to the 14th century when the Tutsi arrived in Rwanda and dominated the area as an elite class, oppressing the Hutu population. Although their relations “remained relatively civil,” tensions were heightened with colonialism and Belgian rule of Rwanda following World War I.

Between the months of April and July in 1994 approximately one million people were killed in Rwanda. There are three ethnic groups in Rwanda, Hutu, Tutsi, and Aboriginal Twa. The genocide occurred between two different groups, the Hutu and Tutsi people. The Hutu composed close to 85% of the population while the minority Tutsi people make up approximately 14% with the Twa people composing the remaining 1%. The Republic of Rwanda like most African nations has a history of colonization from different European countries with different and conflicting ideas of governance and how a colony should be developed and used. It can be argued that many of the

Rwanda is a country that has a rich, but bloody history. Rwanda was originally inhabited by the Twa, a pygmy tribe who hunted and gathered for survival. Between the 5th and 11th century, the Hutu tribe migrated to Rwanda, followed by the Tutsi tribe during the 14th century. The Hutus were farmers, while the Tutsis owned cattle and by the 15th century, the Tutsis had established power. In 1916, the Belgian colonists arrived. The Belgian’s favored the Tutsis and began segregating the two tribes by issuing identification cards which included ethnicity. They supported the Tutsi political power and replaced the Hutu chiefs with Tutsi chiefs, reinforcing the ethnic divide between the two tribes. The Tutsis followed the command of the Belgium for

In 1994, a brutal battle of discrimination and hatred erupted. In the central African country of Rwanda, a long brewing tension broke out in a battle between the Tutsi and Hutu. Lasting approximately 100 days, the conflict forever changed the lives of 40% of the Rwandan population. About 800,000 Tutsi were killed and many refugees fled the country ( “Rwandan Genocide”). It was a grueling fight, based on land and power, that all started with a lopsided hierarchy created by the Belgians that loomed over the heads of the Rwandan people. Belgium’s colonization of Rwanda, served as a catalyst to the genocide between the Tutsi and Hutu by creating the unjust differences and unequal rights between

Ever since, Rwanda has been a small country in central Africa located at the center of DRC, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi. According to its early history, it’s been in German east African colonized countries but was later on taken over by Belgium. They have been colonized until they received their independence on 1962.There were different ethnic groups in Rwanda but most of them are mainly sub-tribes of either Hutu or Tutsi populations. Approximately 85% of the population in Rwanda were Hutus and almost the rest were Tutsis. As things were regularly happening in the country, the Belgium started to lean on and favor more for the Tutsi minority over the majority who were Hutus. Therefore, as I would argue, the arrival and the act of Belgium supporting Tutsis over Hutus was the start of the abhorrence between the two ethnic groups and the reason behind the genocide that occurred in the country in 1994.

In April of 1994 a terrible event took place, one where approximately one-million people were brutally murdered on the basis of their ethnicity or if they opposed the regime. (Uvin, 2003). This terrible event occurred in Rwanda, and it is known as the Rwandan Genocide. Genocide can be described as a one sided mass killing in which the state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership in it are identified by the perpetrator. (Hintjens, 1999) This is exactly what took place in Rwanda in 1994. In Rwanda the population was mostly Hutu (84%) and had two minorities, Tutsi (15%) and Twa (1%). (Hoex, 2010) The perpetrators of the genocide were the Hutu majority and the victims were the Tutsi. In order to

During the weeks following April 6, 1994 about 800,000 men women and children were brutally killed in the Rwandan genocide. All of these people being Tutsi people who were introduced to the area during the German colonization of the area in 1914. To what extent did the German colonization of Rwanda and Burundi strengthen the cultural divide between the Hutu Tutsi tribes of the region? The rift between the Hutus and Tutsi’s became evident when the Tutsi’s, cattle herding people began dominating the land. The situation worsened when the Tutsi people began to dominate the Hutu politically under the king. The Tutsi people were wealthier than the Hutu’s because they were able to profit from raising cattle where the Hutu farmers have been poor.

The Tutsi Genocide was a genocidal mass murder of Tutsi people in Rwanda, carried out by members of the Hutu majority government. The estimated death toll was 500,000-1,000,000 Rwandans in merely 100 days, from April 7 to 15 July 1994. This was 70% of the Tutsi population, and 20% of Rwanda’s total population. The causes behind this genocide was the tension between the majority Hutus and the Tutsis, as well as the Belgian colonial rule, which rewarded the Tutsis with education and denied the Hutus power. Another reason was the Rwandan Civil War in 1990, and the Rwandan Independence in 1963.

Rwanda is a small country in between the two countries, the Dominican Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Rwanda gained its independence in 1962. In 1916 Belgium ruled over the Rwandan people. The Belgium classified the Rwandan people into two groups, the Tutsis and the Hutus. The Belgians put the Tutsi people in charge, because the Tutsis were richer than the Hutu. The Tutsis punished the Hutus for many things and in many ways. In 1962, Hutus had control of the country, many of the Tutsis left the country. On April 7th, 1994, the 100 Days of Slaughter commenced. In just 100 days 800,000-1,000,000 Rwandan people died in the Rwandan Genocide.

After World War I, the Belgian colonized the Rwanda and separated them in the system of rigid ethnic classification. Even though the Tutsis represented only fourteen percent in the Rwanda, Tutsis were recognized as the superiority ethnic group from their behavior, height, or skin, which is closed to the white people by Belgian’s perspectives. In short, the amount of Tutsi is the minority in the Rwanda. After World War II, the Belgian governance became weak power among the international systems so that the people of Rwanda started to have different opinions toward their colonizer and criticized that Tutsis are the immigrate regime. Furthermore, in 1959, the movement of decolonization started. Hutu led a revolt and killed thousands of Tutsis

However, after WWI Germany lost all of its colonies and Rwanda was now under the control of Belgium. Rwanda was separated by its different ethnic groups and Belgians exploited the division between the Tutsis and Hutus. The Tutsis was the minority of the population however was favored by the Belgians because they were taller and ‘whiter’ looking. Hutus established 85% of the population yet the Tutsis received the better educations and property. The Hutus freedom of equality was violated as there was partiality because of ethnicity. After Rwanda gained its independence the Hutus gained power, resulting in a civil war between the two ethnic groups. However, what sparked the genocide was when the Hutus president’s plane was shot down on the way to signing a peace treaty with the Tutsis. The Hutus blamed the Tutsis for the death which led to eight months of fighting which killed approximately one million people. “ A genocide that killed at least 500,000 people was perpetrated in the spring of 1994… thousands more were raped, tortured and beaten” (Lawyers committee for Human Rights). The UN got involved setting up an International Criminal Tribunal with the goal to put genocide leaders on trial. On a national level communities set up Gacaca courts, which was a traditional village system for resolving disputes. In both situations victims received closure and the truth was relieved on what happened during the war and