The Hutu And Tutsis: The Genocide Of Rwanda

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Before the genocide of rwanda,the country was considered the tropical switzerland. Most of the Rwandan population belong to the Hutu ethnic group, they were traditionally crop-growers. For many centuries Rwanda attracted Tutsis, they were traditionally herdsmen from northern Africa. The Hutu and Tutsis also shared their language,culture, and nationality. There have been many intermarriages between the two. Because of their agricultural roles, Tutsis tended to be landowners and Hutus the people who worked the land; and this division of labour perpetuated a population balance in which Hutus naturally outnumbered Tutsis.when the european colonists moved in a large wedge was driven between them. It was the practice of colonial administrators to

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