1. Genocide in Rwanda
SS7H1a: Explain how the European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war, and artificial political boundaries.

2. Civil War Created by European Colonization
In 1994 the Hutu majority organized and carried out a mass killing of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda.
WHY??

3. 1894 – Germany colonized Rwanda
BACKGROUND HISTORY
1894 – Germany colonized Rwanda
1918 – After WW I, Belgium took over the colony.

4. BEFORE EUROPEANS
Hutu ethnic group (traditionally farmers) made up the largest part of the population.
Tutsi ethnic group (herdsmen from North Africa) also settled in the area.
The two shared a language and culture living among each other peacefully.
Tutsis were usually the landowners and the Hutu worked the land.

5. THEN COMES THE EUROPEANS
Europeans chose the Tutsi to become the leading group because they were landowners, tall and more noble looking.
The Tutsi began to act like upper-class (leading group) which make the Hutu feel like peasants.

6. EUROPEAN INFLUENCE
Europeans has brought modern weapons and modern ways of waging war.
Missionaries began to teach the Hutu to see themselves as oppressed and inspired them to revolt.
By 1956, the Hutu gained power and took Tutsi land.

7. CIVIL WAR
Many Tutsi went into exile and formed the RPF – Rwandan Patriotic Front.
In 1990 civil war began between the Hutu and the Tutsi.
A cease fire was achieved in 1993.
There was a push for a multi party constitution but the Hutu leaders wanted NO Tutsi involvement.

8. RWANDA’S PRESIDENT KILLED
1994, President of Rwanda was killed when his plane was shot down.
This triggered the “Final Solution” by the Hutu.
Hutu citizens were told by radio and by mouth “it was their duty to wipe out the Tutsi ethnic group”
Up to 1 million people were killed – Genocide.

9. A civil war created by European colonization
GENOCIDE in RWANDA
1994
A civil war created by European colonization

10.
RWANDA CONTINUED

11. How could this have been prevented?

12. Another conflict in Africa
Conflict in Darfur
Another conflict in Africa

13. CONFLICT IN DARFUR: A REGION IN WESTERN SUDAN

14. CONFLICT IN DARFUR: A REGION IN WESTERN SUDAN

15. CONFLICT IN DARFUR: A REGION IN WESTERN SUDAN