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Genocide in Rwanda

Genocide in Rwanda. SS7H1a: Explain how the European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war, and artificial political boundaries. Civil War Created by European Colonization.

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Genocide in Rwanda

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  1. Genocide in Rwanda SS7H1a: Explain how the European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war, and artificial political boundaries.

  2. 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??

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. RWANDA’S 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.

  9. GENOCIDE in RWANDA 1994 A civil war created by European colonization http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm

  10. http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htmhttp://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm RWANDA CONTINUED

  11. How could this have been prevented?

  12. Conflict in Darfur Another conflict in Africa

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

  14. CONFLICT IN DARFUR: A REGION IN WESTERN SUDAN

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