“An in-depth analysis on effects of Imperialism on Rwanda” Nowadays, European countries such as England, France, Germany, Belgium, and many other countries possess a colossal clout throughout the world. It is an impeccable fact that such countries, indeed, have served as a rudiment pivot and step for the world to be advanced to the point where we are since the Industrial Revolution. Such countries, because of it, without a doubt, have a crucial status globally and become the superpower and commercial hub on our planet. On the back side of their gleaming growth, however, there is an invisible part left behind their luminous development: the Imperialism. The term “Imperialism” refers to a policy of extending a country’s authority and political clout by using its military forces and diplomacy.
Rwanda is a landlocked country in East Africa. Like many other countries in Africa, Rwanda was colonized by European leaders during the Age of Imperialism. Rwanda was once under German rule but after the First World War Rwanda was put under Belgian rule. While under foreign rule ethnic tensions between Tutsi and the Hutu peoples were exploited. These ethnic tensions were never resolved.
To begin with, the causes and effects are quite different. The Rwandan genocide is more simple: It is directly related to European colonialism in the early 20th century. Modern Rwanda sits in the Congo River
The Holocaust and the Genocide of Rwanda both deal with the mass killing of their inferior ethnic. Rwanda is a small country in Central Africa. The population was mainly made up of Hutu, but some were Tutsis. During the colonial period in Rwanda, a mass killing of Tutsis began(Rwanda: A Brief). There was tension between the Tutsis and Hutus (Bower).
The Hutus went through with such heinous, violent acts against the Tutsi because of the hate that was rooted when German and Belgian colonists divided the two ethnic groups and gave the Tutsi power over the native Hutu. Along with this, the Hutu felt the Tutsi had wronged them for centuries before, and the Hutu now controlled the government, creating perfect storm for the events that ensued. But this is more synopsis than a debatable claim Why are you focusing on Rwanda again? The hate between the Hutu and Tutsi was planted far before the genocide took place, allowing for the wounds given to the Hutu, by the Tutsi and the colonists, to fester.
To conclude, it is important to acknowledge the historical context of this horrific genocide. There are multiple factors causing the Rwandan Genocide, such as the social, political, and economic factors. First, “social differences between the Hutu and the Tutsi traditionally were profound” (“Rwandan Genocide of 1994”). These differences lead to prejudice and
The difference about the two genocides is that in Rwanda the killings started right after their leader died but in Bosnia the killings started a decade after their leader passed away. Also in both genocides people were killed in the day and the night in large quantities. One difference about the methods used by each country was that in Bosnia concentration camps were used against anyone who was not a Serb. In Rwanda they wasted no time because they would kill their victims immediately on sight. Those were some differences about how each country’s version of genocide but both were
Camps were set up for former Rwandese soldiers to rearm, these camps were one of the reasons war broke out between Congo and Rwanda in 1996. To this day Rwandese forces are found along the border and continue to attack citizens (Outreach Programme on the Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations). Since then there have been genocide trails for those involved in the mass killings. In conclusion, the European colonisation of Rwanda by Belgium created problems it was unable to solve after the country gained its independence.
The conflict in Rwanda was between two ethnic groups, The Hutus and The Tutsis. The rest of the world did little to help Rwanda and stop the conflict. Colonialism greatly affected the conflict due to Belgium and their rule. The Belgians created the idea of having two ethnic groups. The international response to Rwanda was not adequate or effective.
In 1994, in Rwanda, the mass killings of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus occurred. The killings were carried out by Hutus, as tensions rose between the two groups when the country gained its independence in the 1960s and the Belgians openly favoring the Tutsi people. The mass killings that occurred in Rwanda should be considered as a genocide because it fits with the definition of genocide as it was the destruction of a whole/part of a specific group of people. The Hutu people committed acts and crimes in order to achieve the extermination of the Tutsi people. However the events in Rwanda can be considered as a civil war because people from the same nation are fighting each other as well as if it was considered a genocide then the UN can intervene and prevent the genocide from occurring or stopped it, except they didn’t intervene.
The death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana whose plane was shot down above the Kigali airport in April 6 1994 was the last straw. A French judge blamed the current Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, at the time the leader of a Tutsi rebel group (“How the Genocide Happened-BBC News”). The rebel group wanted to overthrow Habyarimana and return to their homeland. After months of fighting they finally signed a peace treaty but it did little to stop the arguments between the two cultures (“How the Genocide Happened-BBC News”). Then when the plane was shot down the genocide
The genocide was an after affect of the scramble for Africa by European countries who help no regard for the people who already lived their. In the scramble for Africa many European countries raced to make claims on land in Africa that was already lived on by natives, they mistreated the natives and killed and enslaved many of them. This was prevalent in Rwanda when the belgians imperialized the land. The belgians sent the Hutus who were the majority of the population into slavery and lead to mass deaths of their people. But they lead the land through another ethnic group the tutsis who made up about 15% of the population compared to the 85% population of Hutus.
In this case study I will assessing the effectiveness humanitarian intervention during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. From April to June, Hutu extremists killed 800, 000 to one million Tutsi civilians and Hutu moderates. I will do this by examining the humanitarian intervention provided by the United States and Belgian forces, the International Committee of the Red Cross and
Rwanda is a nation built on three major ethnic groups and a prolonged ethnic tension over the course of history. The main cause of the tension was the strained relationship between the Hutus and the Tutsis, the two major ethnic groups of Rwanda. The hostility between the two groups became strong circa the beginning of World War I. The Belgians ruled Rwanda and they preferred the Tutsi minority, causing ethnic tension between the Hutus and the Tutsis right off the bat.
It wasn’t until Rwanda got independence in 1962 that this conflict escalated into violence and ultimately genocide. Rwanda’s population is made up of three ethnic groups the majority being Hutus which holds 85% of the populations, Tutsis 14% and the Twa 1%. The conflict of territory exists between the Hutus and the Tutsis whom both
