History of rwanda genocide 1994
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What led to the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda? What led to the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda?
The genocide was the culmination of decades of division and incitement of hatred towards the Tutsi by extremists in the country’s leadership, which was controlled by members of the Hutu majority group. A deliberate process of positioning the Tutsi as a dangerous and inferior minority group, and even as less than human, set the stage for the genocide that was to come.
Hutu and Tutsi: A colonial legacy of division
Tensions had simmered for decades between the Hutu and Tutsi populations in Rwanda. The region had operated under Belgian colonial rule from after the First World War until During this time, colonial policies fostered divisions between the Hutu, who made up the country’s largest ethnic group, and the Tutsi, who formed the second‐largest ethnic group. The Belgians viewed the Tutsi minority as superior, and favoured Tutsi for leadership positions
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Rwandan genocide
genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda
"Tutsi Genocide" redirects here. For the killings of Tutsi in Burundi, see ethnic violence in Burundi. For the / killings, see Rwandan Revolution.
| Rwandan genocide | |
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Human skulls at the Nyamata Genocide Memorial Centre | |
| Location | Rwanda |
| Date | 7 April – 19 July |
| Target | Tutsi, moderate Hutu, Twa |
Attack type | Genocide, mass murder, genocidal rape, ethnic cleansing |
| Deaths | Estimated: , to , Tutsis[1] & 10, Twa[2] |
| Victims | , to , Tutsi women raped during the genocide. |
| Perpetrators | |
| Motive | Anti-Tutsi sentiment, Hutu Power |
The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July during the Rwandan Civil War.[4] Over a span of around days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were systematically killed by Hutu militias. While the Rwandan Constitution states that over 1 million people wer
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Rwandan Ethnic Tensions
By the early s, Rwanda, a small country with an overwhelmingly agricultural economy, had one of the highest population densities in Africa. About 85 percent of its population was Hutu; the rest were Tutsi, along with a small number of Twa, a Pygmy group who were the original inhabitants of Rwanda.
Part of German East Africa from to , Rwanda became a Belgian trusteeship under a League of Nations mandate after World War I, along with neighboring Burundi.
Rwanda’s colonial period, during which the ruling Belgians favored the minority Tutsis over the Hutus, exacerbated the tendency of the few to oppress the many, creating a legacy of tension that exploded into violence even before Rwanda gained its independence.
A Hutu revolution in forced as many as , Tutsis to flee the country, making them an even smaller minority. bygd early , victorious Hutus had forced Rwanda’s Tutsi monarch into exile and declared the country a republic. After a United Nations