Genocide is any act of violence that is committed intentionally with the aim of wanting to kill or destroy the existence of a specific group of people. It is the most unwanted word we have in English dictionary. I do not feel okay pronouncing it because I know it is the term that has been destroying and wounding humanity many times in the past.. Concerning the Rwandan massacre. It is the worst and the shortest genocide to have occurred in Africa. Some of the People from Rwandan do called it Tutsi genocide because it was mostly against the tribe of Tutsi. Hutu tribe who are majority group in the government decided to take guns in their hands after hearing that their president died.
The president Juvenal Habyariman who was from Hutu died in a plane crash and many Hutu people suspected the Tutsi of committing that incident these made them to start massive killing . Another cause of that genocide can be traced back to the Rwandan independent period. During that time Tutsi people faced a stiff discrimination from the Hutu side and the only thing they could do was to travel out to Uganda. Their flight to Uganda made Hutu to set trap on them and in 1994 the trap flamed. Another cause was the Rwandan civil war that forced Tutsi to exile and after returning to their country in 1990. An agreement was signed by the president who was from Hutu tribe.
After the civil war some of the Rwandan people still had grudges against others, these continues until 1994 when it multiplied into genocide. Some of the causes of the genocide date back to the colonial period, during the time the Rwanda was rule by outside powers they the Tutsi were treated as superior by the Belgians so these caused tensions. During the colonial days Tutsi was rewarded with a good education and economic control from Belgian but unfortunately by 1962 Belgian left the country and the power was left in the hands of the Hutu tribe and immediately they started looking for the ways in which to revenge for the good treatment Tutsi received from Belgian. I think the whole problem could have been avoided had the two tribes Hutu and Tutsi united.
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If the Hutu tribe did not suspect Tutsi over the killing of the president, the genocide could not have occurred. It was also bad for the two communities to have lived all along sticking on the bad things that took place during the colonial days summing it up into what we called revenge. I said it this way because the massacre was the reference from what took place before. There was not clear parties who took part in resolving conflicts. People said that the genocide ended just because Tutsi rebels defeated the government. Paul Kagame was the leader of the rebel whose party was called Rwanda patriotic front (RPF). He fought a serious war with Hutu the government and he defeated them hence end of genocide.
The took three months to end and later Hutu had a president from called Pasteur Bizimungu and Paul Kagame became vice president and he was the one in charge of the army. These too was not enough , Kagame and Bizimungu later fell out because the president was suspected of inciting ethic violence these made him to be jailed and immediately Paul Kagame took the throne and he has been the president since the turn of the new millennium.
References
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