We learned the rest of our Asia Maps. And signed up for ways to take our semester tests. I chose oral.
Assigned Blog 7: This blog is due Tuesday. No class time.
Do semester test blog on own time before semester test.
Rwanda-1993:
- Between Mjority Hutus vs. Minority Tutsis
- Though they were a minority they were more dominate b/c the Europeans favored the Tutsis b/c the Tutsis resembled the Europeans (looked more like whites--but they weren't actually white) more than the Hutus. The Europeans helped the Tutsis more and so the Hutus decided to start attacking the Tutsis and this started the genocide. It was all a result of the Europeans creating ethnic tension.
- A helicopter carrying the Rwanda President was shot down and no one is really sure who did it, but people generally believe it was the Hutus. This basically started the genocide. The Hutus mostly just wanted a reason to start fighting.
- In early 1960's Rwanda got independence. The Hutus took over government and started to discriminate the Tutsis as a way of getting back at them for being favored by the Europeans. There was a lot of bad blood between the two groups.
- The majority of people killed were Tutsis because the Hutus started the fighting. The weapon of choice tended to be a machete.
- Anyone who killed Tutsis were rewarded by the Hutus government.
- The UN sent troops in as peacekeepers only and withdrew them after 10 soldiers were murdered. Rwanda was left to deal with it themselves.
- The Hutus were forced to emigrate from Rwanda to The Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Over 100 days...the Hutus killed thousands of Tutsis, but the Tutusis were able to get a force together and finally took over power and sent the Hutus to DRC.
- The Hutus caused many problems in DRC.
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