Causes Of The Rwandan Genocide

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Genocide: Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR): The mission was intended to assist the implementation of the Arusha Accords, but was eventually considered a failure due to its inability to stop the outbreak of the Rwandan Genocide Peacekeeping: The act of protecting civilians and containing conflicts Introduction to issue: Rwanda’s population comprises of three ethnic groups: Hutu, Tutsi and Twa. In 1994, the 7 million strong population comprised of 85% Hutus, 14% Tutsi and 1% Twa. In the distant past, they were linguistically homogenous, practiced the same religion and intermarriage between the ethnic groups was possible. Prior to the coming of Belgian imperialism, Rwanda was ruled by a Tutsi monarchy.…show more content…
This assassination instigated Hutu hardliners to seize power and demand for the elimination of the Tutsis. In the subsequent 100 days, 800000 Tutsis and 10000 Hutus perished in the Rwandan Genocide. The foundation for the genocide was laid down during the Belgian colonial period (1919-1962). The Belgian colonisers made ethnic divisions far more inflexible by favouring the Tutsi minority over the Hutu majority. This was based on European anthropological theories about the Tutsis’ supposed Hamitic origins, which was allegedly racially superior to the

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