Rwanda Genocide Vocab Grab

The country that colonized Rwanda before World War I.

Germany

When Germany was punished for WWI and lost their colonial possessions, who took over Rwanda?

Belgian Colony

How did Belgium create social classes and divide the local tribes of the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa?

Racial Identity Cards

A genocide that occurred in Europe that can be used as a frame of reference to Rwanda’s genocide.

Jewish Holocaust

What was formed to keep something like the Holocaust from happening again.

United Nations is founded

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

Hutu Manifesto

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

“The Wind of Destruction” The first campaign of Hutu Violence toward Tutsi

Rwanda set up a government with the Hutu in charge as a way to keep some type of control of the colony.

Rwanda becomes an independent country

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.

Juvenal Habyarimana

Group of Tutsi trying to remove Habyarimana from power politically… Rwanda is not a free state.

RPF attempts to end Habyarimana’s rule

document published in the December 1990 edition of Kangura, an anti-Tutsi, Hutu Power Kinyarwanda-language newspaper in Kigali, Rwanda

Hutu 10 Commandments

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.

Arusha Accords are signed

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.

Habyarimana is killed

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 State radio announces that May 5 th is to be “cleanup” day

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").

800,000 Rwandans die