Tutsi

The Hutu and Tutsi people have been struggling to live together for many years. From 1959 to 1994 the Hutu and Tutsi people of Burundi and Rwanda have been bondaged together by major events that have let to the Burundi and Rwanda Genocides. But there’s more to just the Genocides than what meets the eye. In order to understand what happened in the Rwanda genocide I must talk about Burundi and the Belgian rule. Hutu and Tutsi have lived in the same area for centuries and share the same language, religions

was mostly against the Tutsi but also men, women and children of Hutu decent that were found to be in contact with Tutsi. The conflict between the Tutsi, Twa and Hutu people began when the Belgium colonizers decided to divide the three groups. According to Herndon and Randell (2013) “colonial ideology had promoted the notion of Tutsi women as more aesthetically pleasing because of imagined similarities to European features (p.73). Which is why during the genocide of 1994, Tutsi women were victims of

altercations between the Hutu and Tutsi. When you go think about it, what made the Hutu better than the Tutsi? They both lived in the same environment, lived similar lives, wore similar clothing, worshiped the same religion, spoke the same language, and ate the same types of food. There were no physical differences because they were both black people with similar physical appearances. The only other option could be that the word Hutu is shorter than the word Tutsi. Other than that the only difference

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

The ethnic tension between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda started out centuries ago, then continued through colonial periods and after independence and eventually caused the genocide in 1994. Several centuries ago, there were three different ethnical groups in Rwanda. The Twas were the original inhabitants of Rwanda. The Hutus were the majority; they were mostly peasant cultivators. The Tutsis were the minority, however, they had cattle ownership (“Rwanda: Background”). They were wealthy, and

The argument between the Hutus and the Tutsis began way before the genocide started, and the Tutsis were oppressing the Hutus first. During 500 and 1000 BC, the “Hutus first settled in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa” (The Heart) and lived in large agricultural families. The Tutsis, on the other hand, came much later to that land from Ethiopia, and they settled with the Hutus. They acquired their “language, beliefs and customs” (The Heart). The Tutsis began becoming more wealthy than the Hutus

The genocide of the Rwandese Tutsi and the murder of many moderate Hutus was a political strategy adopted by a clique of powerful people at the centre of the government of Rwanda. Their plan was to hold to power at all cost. The war in Rwanda has often been presented as a “tribal conflict.” This is highly misleading. Hutus and Tutsis existed a century ago, but the two categories were defined in very different terms in those days. They were far less mutually hostile. Colonial rule and its attendant

nation of Rwanda. It was the mass murder of the minority ethnic Tutsi group. The people responsible for the genocide was the majority ethnic Hutu group. The Hutu group murdered about 800,000 people, most of them the Tutsi group.About 500,000 Tutsi women were raped and killed immediately afterwards. The most used weapon for killing in the genocide was the machete. The Hutu militias were sent to kill Tutsis. Even Hutu men killed their Tutsi wives.(“The Rwandan Genocide”, n.d. Para 1) The cause of the

refugees from the raging war between the Tutsis and the Hutus For the past month, people have now just been informed about a war that is going on between the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda. This has been going on for about a month and it seems like the death toll is rising rapidly. The assailants of this current genocide are the Hutus. They are targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents. This is because the Tutsis have dominated Rwanda for a while and the

Destexhe states “These colonists considered the Tutsi to be superior to the Hutu. They believed that the Tutsi had ‘superior martial skill and intelligence’ and ‘that the Tutsi at the central court possessed a different physiology from that of the Hutu; and that only Tutsi were pastoralists.” (Destexhe, 38). The colonisers took the myth to “the school-rooms of Rwanda using European-educated teachers. Following the schools, there were mainly Tutsi elite. Tutsi had opportunities to become doctors, teachers