The genocide occurred in Rwanda
Introduction
The Rwanda region is located in Africa, limiting with Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi. The merit and work of these villages vary in the Rwanda region. Through the years and the history of Rwanda, each town proceeds to become a fundamental factor in the functioning of such a country. The people in charge of personifying Rwanda are divided into three;The tutsis, the hutus and the Twa. The main town of Rwanda is the Hutus. This characterizes and represents the majority of the Rwandan people. Hutu as such is found in Burundi and Rwanda. The language spoken by this town is similar to that of the other peoples;including the French Swahili, Kirundi and the Kinyarwanda.
Name Hutu represents the definition of subject. Such meaning is due to the fact that this town was, at the beginning, sudden of the Tutsi monarchy. The Hutus were commonly farmers or farmers and are established in the rural areas of their respective region. Despite the differences present in their work, the Hutus, Tutsis and the Twa share a wide number of cultural, religious and linguistic aspects. Unlike the Hutu people, tutsis are commonly recognized for being the minority. This town is located in Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire. The manifested language is the Kinyarwanda, French, English and Kirundi.
Developing
The tutsis begin to enter the Rwanda region looking for cattle pastures, such as farmers, and thus proceed to dominate the area. As the years go by, the tutsis evolve in the type of organization and thus founding a monarchy based on feudalism. Such a monarchy aims to control the rest of the peoples (Hutus and the Twa) and dominate the Rwand. Finally, the less significant people are introduced to the Rwanda region, known as the Twa. The Twa is a fairly peculiar town, for the history of Rwanda, since this is the oldest people in the region.
The Twa do not differentiate in practically any aspect of the rest of the peoples. Twa practice the same religions, share similar cultures and similar languages. Unlike the rest of the villages, the Twa were hunters and were the wooded areas of Rwanda. “Until the thirteenth and thirteenth century the coexistence between the Twa, Hutus and Tutsis was relatively balanced, sharing beliefs, customs, resources and a common language: the Kinyarwanda.”The tutsis are introduced to the Rwanda region with thought and a desire for domain and control. This town imposes a feudal system that is based on the respect and compliance with the orders of the MWAMI.
With the monarchy imposed, such a period is characterized by the Tutsi domain;and despite their domain, socioeconomic and ethnic differences were not so. Over the years, in the nineteenth century there is the concrete power of the Tutsi monarchy and shortly after a military and social caste of Hutus is introduced. Such monarchy was based on the structure of province, district, hill, and neighborhood in its administrative government. In such administration, the Tutsi people are perpetually part of the highest levels of the administration;The mwami is normally tutsi. It is important to emphasize such a structure, since, following this, the Hutu is granted.
The lowest levels of the administration and thus become the subject of all tutsi (the minority being). And so little by little, the feudal system in Rwanda institutes a class system and a division between extremely similar ethnicities. The colonial period is probably the most influential factor in the social division produced in Rwanda and in the future, in the genocide that was at the time devalued, the genocide of Rwand. Before starting with the colonization in Rwanda, it is possible to emphasize the distribution of Africa at the Berlin Conference of 1885. This was distributed by sectors with the purpose of being conquered and colonized by several European countries.
In this conference Rwanda is established to Germany. In the beginning the Germans did not caught their attention to colonize in Rwanda, but shortly after they understand how beneficial such a region can be because it is located at a strategic point for them. As previously mentioned, Rwanda was under the domain of the Tutsi monarchy. The Germans when they arrive in Ruanda and witness such a feudal structure, decide to support the Tutsi people. In the German colonization process, the First World War is given and this allows the introduction and colonization process of Belgium in Rwanda.
The Belgians maintain the support directed towards the tutsis and thus a new level of social division is introduced, where discrimination is directed towards the Hutus. The ethnic and social tension between the peoples increases over the years and the main incentive is the presence of Belgium. In a way, the Belgians were the ones who promoted discrimination and the idea of ‘difference’ between the peoples of Rwanda. Belgium exercises a colonial administration that degrades and in 1933 he completely divides the peoples through ethnic cards. These carnes establish the alleged physical differences between the Ruandses, and guarantees privileges and favors to the Tutsi people.
Such carnes will facilitate the identification and death of much of the Tutsi population. The differences between the two peoples increase, to the point where it can be considered critical, but when is it known that the social division between these ethnicities is beyond the reach of the Belgians? From the 50s the first radical ideology in Rwanda begins, the power hutu. Hutu power is an anti-Tutsi radical ideology, where Hutu seeks the emancipation of Belgian colonizers and the Tutsi monarchy. By increasing the tension between them, Belgians are exhorted to introduce political parties and incidentally impose a military government.
Any reader can impress the fact that despite introducing a democratic process, the social division into Rwand. Such an event is what declares the attack signal for the Hutu. From here the Hutu get sufficient confidence and win the elections for being a majority. From that moment, clashes between Hutus and Tutsis begin in order to end the Hutu revolutionary movement. Rwanda is officially independent in 1962. Rwanda, now being a completely independent region.
It is governed by the Hutu and these have the support of Belgium. The new regime and structuring of the area becomes dictatorship, and discrimination towards the Tutsi increases, causing the exile of more tutsis to neighboring countries of Rwanda. Discrimination increases little by little, to the point that the organized groups of Tutsis, were called Inyenzi, and this becomes a common term to describe the Tutsi in general. From the independence of Rwanda, Grégoire Kayibanda becomes the first president of the region. His government occurs within 1962-1973, and Kayibanda is the one that supported the Hutu in his war against the Tutsi aristocracy and the emancipation of the Hutu as such.
During the Kayibanda government there are a series of events that will proceed to the implementation of a new president. "The British philosopher described him as a horrible and systematic extermination comparable to the Nazi genocide" (Jesus S.M., s.f) One of the events that incites Kayibanda’s dismissal was the attempt of the Tutsi rebels to enter the north. Here is the killing of tens of thousands of tutsis and the only thing established by the government is that such an act was part of the madness of the people. The Kayibanda government understands the art of justification. He, despite the fact that soon after the country’s economy improves and maintains a social balance.
It is not surprising that shortly after there is the murder of 350.000 hutus in Burundi. We must recapitulate that all these murders are being produced by critical tension, which has accumulated over the years, between the Hutu and the Tutsi. Before such an event, the anti-Tutsi feeling increases and the Hutu seek a form of response from the president, Kayibanda. It is decided to establish the public security committees and it is decided that the Tutsi ethnicity will only have a social and university political presence in the region. Despite such a solution, Kayibanda is presented with a fairly strong political opponent.
conclusion
Being an Hutu, they are presented at an equitable level and the Kayibanda post as president is threatened by Juvenal Habyarimana. Habyarimana is a politically strong man who gives rise to his coup d’etat in July 1973. It is worth contemplating the "balance and balance" between ethnicities that occurred with the presidency of Kayibanda, but once Habyarimana enters power and takes its place everything changes. The national reconciliation government is founded that during its mandate, introduces continuous power, a totalitarian regime. Such government promotes "social stability", but also reintroduces racism and culminating discrimination between ethnicities.
This occurs mainly because of its mismanagement of the Rwandan economy that increases tension in the town. This government begins the opposition against the regime that denounced its corruption and begins to contribute to Akazu’s thought and thus the radicalization of the people begins. His thinking is based on the fact that in addition to the tutsis, all moderate Hutu do not deserve respect and deserve to be treated with violence. According to Johan Swinnen, the Akazu planned the extermination of moderate Hutu and all that tutsi in order to culminate with their presence once and for all. This marks the government’s radicalization process and thus begins to be identified as the Hutu power.
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