RWANDA GENOCIDE. The problems of Africa should NOT concern Americans The United States should take an active role in helping the people of Africa.

RWANDA GENOCIDE

The problems of Africa should NOT concern Americans The United States should take an active role in

helping the people of Africa. The United States should intervene if acts of

Genocide are happening in Africa

DO NOW: WHAT DO YOU THINK?

1 Billion people 50% of the world’s

gold 90% of the world’s

platinum 70% of the world’s

diamonds 90% of the world’s

cocoa Enough fertile land

to feed everyone

A CONTINENT OF POTENTIAL

Borders Colonialism

Ethnic and Religious Hatred Tribes

Ineffective/No governments Cycles of democracy and dictatorships

A CONTINENT OF PROBLEMS

FIND RWANDA

Average income: $535

Life Expectancy: 46 years

Major Tribes Hutu 84% Tutsi 15%

RWANDA

A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUTUS AND TUTSIS

The Tutsis, a tall warrior people, began arriving in the region, from Ethiopia in the 1500’s and settled among the Native Hutus

Hutus are an agricultural people. They agreed to raise crops for the Tutsi

They intermarried and mingled, diff erences began to disappear

Economic Diff erences Tutsis as cattle owners were often in a position to dominate the

Hutu (cow = wealth) Minority Tutsis ruled majority Hutus

Colonialism and Racism The Belgians ruled Rwanda after WWI. They saw the Tutsi as

superior because they were taller and lighter skinned They forced both to carry ethnic ID cards. Only Tutsis could get

higher education and hold positions of power

Rwanda declared independence in 1962

Since independence, fi ghting between Hutus and Tutsis has existed, leading to the massacre of ½ mill ion people

1972 Burundi Massacre 100,000 Hutus killed by Tutsi Burundi also 85% Hutu and 15%

Tutsi 1990 – 1993 Rwandan Civil

war Hutu vs. Tutsi

2,500 UN peace keepers overseeing a cease-fire agreement

Troops will still be there during the Genocide

BEFORE THE GENOCIDE

April 6, 1994 – Plane carrying Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down (He was a Hutu)

Bands of Hutus with machetes killed almost a million Tutsi in the next 90 days

THE GENOCIDE BEGINS

1. Every Hutu should know that a Tutsi woman, whoever she is, works for the interest of her Tutsi ethnic group. As a result, we shall consider a traitor any Hutu who marries a Tutsi woman befriends a Tutsi woman employs a Tutsi woman as a secretary or a concubine.

2. Every Hutu should know that our Hutu daughters are more suitable and conscientious in their role as woman, wife and mother of the family. Are they not beautiful, good secretaries and more honest?

3. Hutu women, be vigi lant and try to bring your husbands, brothers and sons back to reason.

4. Every Hutu should know that every Tutsi is dishonest in business. His only aim is the supremacy of his ethnic group. As a result, any Hutu who does the fol lowing is a traitor: makes a partnership with Tutsi in business invests his money or the government's money in a Tutsi enterprise lends or borrows money from a Tutsi gives favours to Tutsi in business (obtaining import licenses, bank loans,

construction sites, public markets, etc.).

HUTU 10 COMMANDMENTS

5. Al l strategic posit ions, pol i t ical , administrative, economic, mi l i tary and security should be entrusted only to Hutu.

6. The education sector (school pupi ls, students, teachers) must be majority Hutu.

7. The Rwandan Armed Forces should be exclusively Hutu. The experience of the October 1990 war has taught us a lesson. No member of the mil i tary shal l marry a Tutsi .

8. The Hutu should stop having mercy on the Tutsi . 9. The Hutu, wherever they are, must have unity and sol idarity and be

concerned with the fate of their Hutu brothers. The Hutu inside and outside Rwanda must constantly look for friends and

allies for the Hutu cause, starting with their Hutu brothers. They must constantly counteract Tutsi propaganda. The Hutu must be fi rm and vigilant against their common Tutsi enemy.

10. The Social Revolution of 1959, the Referendum of 1961, and the Hutu Ideology, must be taught to every Hutu at every level . Every Hutu must spread this ideology widely. Any Hutu who persecutes his brother Hutu for having read, spread, and taught this ideology is a traitor.

HUTU 10 COMMANDMENTS

Commander of the UN Peace Keeping Force during the Genocide

Wanted more troops added to his 3,000 man force

Following the deaths of 10 Belgian Peacekeepers his forces were cut down from 3,000 men to 500 men

LIEUTENANT – GENERAL ROMEO DALLAIRE

The United States did not help because of Somalia and American attitude forward Africa

The United Nations Security Council has accepted responsibility for failing to prevent the genocide in Rwanda

NO ONE HELPED

Tutsi rebels called the Rwandan Patriot Front (RPF) led by now president Paul Kagame, without international help, put an end to the massacre by overthrowing Hutu forces

END OF THE GENOCIDE