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Essay On Rwanda Genocide

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Sylvie Umutesi
Professor Edmee Marcek
English 113
December. 11. 2017
Rwanda and The Genocide of 1994
Rwanda has a central plateau area dominated by hills that gives the country its nickname referred to as “le pays de mille collines” which means the land of thousand hills. Rwanda is located in East Central Africa. It is a small country with 26,338 square kilometers divided into 3 ethnic groups: Hutu, Tutsi and Twa known as pygmies. Rwandans have one mother tongue which is Kinyarwanda, and their national languages are English and French. The Hutu are traditionally farmers, Tutsi are traditionally cattle owning while pygmies are hunters and potters. Rwanda was colonized by Germany and Belgium and got independence in 1962. After the independence primarily Tutsis, had taken refuge in neighboring states to escape the violence which had accompanied the gradual coming into power of the Hutu community. The first President was Gregoire Kayibanda, and he was from the Hutu community, the Tutsis were mad because they replaced the Tutsi monarchy with a republican form of government. In this paper I am going to talk about the Rwandan genocide also known as the genocide against the tribe of Tutsi. It was a genocidal mass slaughter of the Tutsi in Rwanda by the Hutu. One Million Rwandans were killed in hundred days from …show more content…

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