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Rwanda - Belgian controlled colony Two types of ethnic groups

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 Two types of ethnic groups

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Rwanda - Belgian controlled colony Two types of ethnic groups

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  1. 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 Two types of ethnic groups Tutsis Hutus • make up slightly less of the population • traditional farmers • share the same language as Tutsis • attacked by Hutus in 1994 • make up most of the population • traditional farmers • share the same language as Tutsis • oppressed under the Tutsi rule

  2. 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

  3. Civil War between Tutsi and Hutus Tutsi move to Uganda (north of Rwanda) still war goes on Rwanda By 1994 there was a brokered peace agreement b/w Tutsi rebel groups and Rwandans (Hutus) 1994 Rwandan president Habyatmana murdered Hutus begin murdering Tutsis

  4. Rwandan Genocide800,000 to 1,000,000 dead in 100 days The world paid no attention The UN forces pulled out...

  5. The world paid no attention The UN forces pulled out...

  6. 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

  7. It can happen again.....

  8. Darfur/Sudan Today http://www.savedarfur.org/

  9. 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

  10. Darfur/Sudan Today What can you do? SPEAK UP! http://www.savedarfur.org/

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