Post on 03-Jan-2016
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Rwanda - Belgian controlled colony
Two types of ethnic groups
Tutsis Hutus
• make up most of the population
•traditional farmers
• share the same language as Tutsis
• oppressed under the Tutsi rule
• make up slightly less of the population
•traditional farmers
• share the same language as Tutsis
• attacked by Hutus in 1994
Evidence seems to say there is no genetic difference between Tutsis and Hutus - especially since they intermarried so much. This really isn’t about ethnic differences as much as it is about hatred.
Rwanda - Belgian controlled colony
Belgians allowed Tutsis to run gov’t for them
Then the Belgians leave and Hutus take over - they seek to get revenge for way Tutsi treated them earlier
Civil War between Tutsi and Hutus
Tutsi move to Uganda (north of Rwanda)still war goes on
By 1994 there was a brokered peace agreement b/w Tutsi rebel groups and Rwandans (Hutus) 1994 Rwandan president Habyatmana murderedHutus begin murdering Tutsis
Rwanda
Rwandan Genocide800,000 to
1,000,000 dead in 100 days
The world paid no attentionThe UN forces pulled out...
The world paid no attentionThe UN forces pulled out...
Rwanda Today"There are no us and them; there are Rwandans"
David Kabuye Rwanda has changed. David Kabuye wrote recently, "Over the last twelve years Rwanda has developed so much that a person who left the country before the war and genocide would barely know his way around."
http://www.rwandanstories.org/today.html
It can happen again.....
Darfur/Sudan Today
Who is committing the genocide against the Darfur people? The Janjaweed, a Sudanese militia group recruited mostly from the Afro-Arab Abbala tribes of the northern Rizeigat region in Sudan;
Although the Sudanese government publicly denies that it supports the Janjaweed, multiple human rights groups have accused it of providing financial assistance to the militia and of participating in joint attacks targeting civilians
Darfur/Sudan Today
http://www.savedarfur.org/
What can you do?
SPEAK UP!