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Imperialism In Rwanda

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Years of conflict between two of Rwanda’s main ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, resulted in The Rwandan Genocide, claiming 800,000 lives. This conflict stemmed from Rwanda’s early colonial and postcolonial history.
Two ethnic groups dominated Rwanda, a Belgian colony until 1962. The upper class herdsman and landowners, the Tutsis, were chosen by the Belgians to serve as an intermediary between the government and the people. As a result, the Tutsis became a privileged group, with education and economic advantages. Unlike the Tutsi experience, the Hutus remained mostly underprivileged farmers, treated poorly by the Belgian governing body. (Gale Student Resources in Context)
Belgium introduced two key components into Rwandan society, Christian missionaries and modern weaponry. The Christian missionaries reached out to the Hutus in the hopes that they would seek redemption. The Hutus, enraged by their second class citizen status, refused this offer and decided to use the new weapons to rebel against the …show more content…

In 1993, The United Nations attempted to help the victims of the Rwandan civil war by using a peacekeeping operation called the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, also known as UNAMIR. However, when the UN force started to experience casualties in April 1994, they quickly abandoned the effort. Although the UN stopped helping Rwanda, France quickly provided aid. The creation of small safety zones protected fearful Tutsis from the violence. With the war finally coming to an end, the UNAMIR regained strength. (History.com) Repair of Rwanda began, with different movements being created and activated. In 1996, the Movement of Refugees brought back over 600,000 people who fled from Rwanda to Zaire, now known as Congo. Following this major reparation, this movement returned 500,000 refugees from Tanzania at the end of December, 1996. (Background notes:

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Before the Europeans entered, the chieftaincy system was such that both Hutus and Tutsis ruled the land. The Belgians, however, simplified the chieftaincy system, reducing its numbers and concentrating power in the hands of the Tutsi. Further, the Belgians oversaw a land reform process in which grazing areas traditionally under the control of the Hutus were seized and given to the Tutsis. In the 1930s, the Belgians introduced large-scale projects in health, education, and agriculture, but mainly for the use and implementation by the Tutsi. As a result, Tutsi supremacy remained, even though these measures did industrialize Rwanda.

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In fact, Rwanda has a long history of politicization of land: those who held political power often intervened and appropriated land for their own purposes” Thus struggle for power by both ethnic groups is what we ultimately see on the outside as to why this conflict occurred, however it is in fact because those who owned the land had the power that we know that this issue was more of a territorial one. This conflict turned into such violent one as the Hutus believed that the only way to gain ownership of the land and of the power was to exterminate the Tutsi. Land belonging to Tutsi was distributed to Hutu after they were killed or exiled. It is because of the twos deep rooted hatred and resentment of one and other that the violence escalated to such a horrific

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