Tutsi

Hutu, 14% was Tutsi, and the remaining 1% was Twa (United Nations, 2015). Animosity between the Hutu and Tutsi groups had grown substantially since the European colonialization period in the 1800s. During the colonialization period, European colonists considered the slimmer, taller, lighter-skinned Tutsis to be superior to the shorter, stockier, darker-skinned Hutus (Putterbaugh, 2010). As the Tutsis were more like the Europeans, they were treated better than the Hutus. The Tutsis were given positions

million. There were three ethnic groups: the Hutus, the Tutsis, and the Twa; but the population was mainly composed of Hutus and Tutsis. This genocide occurred between April and August of 1994. The Rwandan genocide is considered a “silent genocide” because it

Until the late 19th century, which was to say until European Colonization, Tutsis people were represented as the aristocratic upper classes. (Hutus) people were represented as the peasant masses. The European people brought with them an idea of race science, and people took this tradition structure and made it more extreme and more polarized into a some sort of sytem. Identity cards were issued and (Tutsis) people were privileged for all things and Hutus people were made into a very oppressed mass

country until the Civil war started. Belgium then took over Rwanda and put the Tutsis in charge of the government because they had more European characteristics like the Belgium population (Anderson 1). This upset the

When it started it was within 24 hours when road blocks started going up and checkpoints were people were getting killed. When people went to these road blocks and if they were Tutsis their ID was seized and they were poled out of their car and killed with machetes, but some taller and thinner Hutus were thought to be Tutsis and were also killed. These road blocks

According to Michael P. Scharf, over 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in just 4 months. To put that in perspective, that is two times more people than everyone in Atlanta, and every single one of their lives were taken in a third of the year. Such a terrible atrocity and no one accepted the blame. A small group of African leaders came together and blamed other countries such as the United States and the members of the United Nation’s for not intervening on the genocide that was occurring. Others,

million Known as the “Land of a Thousand Hills” Ethnicity Groups- Hutu(85%), Tutsi(14%), Twa(1%) Ruled by Germany and later Belgium Rwanda was ruled by Germany but after WW1, Belgium started to rule. The Belgians preferred the Tutsi Minority and used them to help govern Rwanda. Tutsis were given privileges which the Hutu Majority was excluded from. This caused hatred from the Hutu to the Tutsi. In the 1950’s, some educated Tutsi began to question colonial rule. Due to that, Belgians started to favour

mass murder of the Tutsi in Rwanda fits this definition perfectly. From April to July of 1994 around 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutus. This massacre was a genocide because a specific ethnic group was targeted. After World War I, Rwanda was controlled by Belgium.Due to the fact that the Tutsis were the minority of the population, the Belgians believed they were superior to the Hutus. The Hutus were oppressed and had very little rights, and this mentality that Tutsi were superior led to

into main two ethnic groups: the Hutu and the Tutsi, with the overwhelming majority being Hutu. Ethnic tensions in Rwanda date back in the late 1800s when The Berlin Conference assigned the territory to Germany. European colonists who traveled to Rwanda displayed typical scientific racism tendencies of the time. Convinced the Tutsi had migrated to Rwanda from Ethiopia and were therefore more Caucasian than the Hutu, they enforced notions that the Tutsi were racially superior to the Hutu and racialized

the population was Hutu, 9 percent was Tutsi, and 1 percent was Twa (Worldwithoutgenocide.org, 2013). A civil war broke out between the two major ethnic groups the Hutus and the Tutsis, which led to a large-scale