Genocide in Rwanda

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Genocide in Rwanda

• SS7H1a Explain how the European partitioning
  across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war,
  and artificial political boundaries.

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Civil War Created by European Colonization

• In 1994 the Hutu majority organized and carried
  out a mass killing of the Tutsi minority in
  Rwanda.
• WHY??

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BACKGROUND HISTORY

• 1894 Germany colonized Rwanda
• 1918 After WW I, Belgium took over the colony.

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BEFORE EUROPEANS

• Hutu ethnic group (traditionally farmers) made up
  the largest part of the population.
• Tutsi ethnic group (herdsmen from North Africa)
  also settled in the area.
• The two shared a language and culture living
  among each other peacefully.
• Tutsis were usually the landowners and the Hutu
  worked the land.

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THEN COMES THE EUROPEANS

• Europeans chose the Tutsi to become the leading
  group because they were landowners, tall and more
  noble looking.
• The Tutsi began to act like upper-class (leading
  group) which make the Hutu feel like peasants.

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EUROPEAN INFLUENCE

• Europeans has brought modern weapons and modern
  ways of waging war.
• Missionaries began to teach the Hutu to see
  themselves as oppressed and inspired them to
  revolt.
• By 1956, the Hutu gained power and took Tutsi
  land.

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CIVIL WAR

• Many Tutsi went into exile and formed the RPF
  Rwandan Patriotic Front.
• In 1990 civil war began between the Hutu and the
  Tutsi.
• A cease fire was achieved in 1993.
• There was a push for a multi party constitution
  but the Hutu leaders wanted NO Tutsi involvement.

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RWANDAS PRESIDENT KILLED

• 1994, President of Rwanda was killed when his
  plane was shot down.
• This triggered the Final Solution by the Hutu.
• Hutu citizens were told by radio and by mouth it
  was their duty to wipe out the Tutsi ethnic
  group
• Up to 1 million people were killed Genocide.

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GENOCIDE in RWANDA 1994 A civil war created by
European colonization
http//news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/12882
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http//www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide
_in_rwanda.htm
RWANDA CONTINUED
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How could this have been prevented?
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Conflict in Darfur

• Another conflict in Africa

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CONFLICT IN DARFUR A REGION IN WESTERN SUDAN
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict
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CONFLICT IN DARFUR A REGION IN WESTERN SUDAN
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CONFLICT IN DARFUR A REGION IN WESTERN SUDAN