• Document called for a double liberation of the Hutu people, first from the race of white
colonials, and second from the race of Hamitic oppressors, the Tutsi in 1957
Also known as the Rwandan Revolution. An estimated 20,000 to 100,000 Tutsis were killed. Belgium sent troops to stop the
revolution but were accused by the Tutsi of helping the Hutu’s violence against the Tutsi
• Rwanda set up a government with the Hutu in charge as a way to keep some type of control
of the colony.
• Dictator - talks tough about what the Hutu can do to the Tutsi… helps to establish a strong
Hutu gov’t. In power for 21 years.
• document published in the December 1990 edition of Kangura, an anti-Tutsi, Hutu Power Kinyarwanda-language newspaper in Kigali,
Rwanda
The Accords which included points considered necessary for lasting peace: the rule of law, repatriation of refugees both from fighting
and from power sharing agreements, and the merging of government and rebel armies.
His plane is shot down. Both the Hutu and Tutsi are suspected of shooting it down. The Hutu end up pinning it on the Tutsi as a power grab… they’re just doing what they’ve always done. The minority trying to rule the majority.
• Radio broadcasts urge people to do their duty and seek out the Tutsis and Tutsi-
sympathizers living among them in their streets or villages. Eliminate the cockroaches
is the message.
• The assassination of Habyarimana in April 1994 set off a violent reaction, during which
Hutu groups conducted mass killings of Tutsis (and also pro-peace Hutus, who were
portrayed as "traitors" and "collaborators").