Rwanda

Colonial Era

  • Taken by the Germans before the World War

  • After World War and the Germans lost

  • Belgium took the region

Belgium and the Tutsis

  • Hutu - Darker, stockier, shorter, manual laborers

  • Tutsi - Lighter, More European features, taller

  • Forced every native to carry around identification to tell if they were Hutus or Tutsis

  • 15% of population was Tutsis, and ended up getting all of the power from the Germans

  • Tutsis abuse their power being cruel and abusing the Hutus.

  • When they were leaving Africa, they switched powers to the Hutus

  • Fearing for their lives the Tutsis escaped to Uganda

  • RPF - Tutsi rebels who invaded Rwanda in 1990 sparking a civil war

  • 800,000 Tutsis are massacred