What are the origins of the Tutsi-Hutu conflict ?

1. What percentage of the population do the Tutsis make up? The Hutus? Who owns the majority of the land?
Tutsis Tutsis make up about 15 percent of Rwanda's population

2. How did the Belgians show favor toward the Tutsis?
they were helping them recieve taxes, they were also helping them economically

3. Why were identification cards later used for? How is this connected to the Holocaust?
to determine the people that were sent to a death camp and they were killed.
. If you were a freed slave or an indentured labourer in Mauritius, you had to carry a Card.

4. When did Hutus gain political power?
used ethnic tensions to preserve his own power. Hutu radicals, working with his group (and later against it), co-opted the Hamitic hypothesis, portraying the Tutsi as outsiders, invaders, and oppressors of Rwanda

5. Write two facts about the country of Rwanda.
Rwanda experienced Africa's worst genocide in modern times
atleasty 8000 tutsis have been brutally massacred during this time.

Understanding Genocide

1) Acts committed with intent or destroy, in whole or in part, national, ethical, racial or religious group.

2) Every human being- Arrogant thoughts, feelings of irritation, coldness, anger, envy, even indifference

Prejudice- 'What mattered about Vitya was that he was my trusted friend, not that he was Jewish.

3) 1904 NAMIBIA
1915 ARMENIA
1932 UKRAINE
the HOLOCAUST
1975 CAMBODIA
1982 GUATEMALA
1994 RWANDA
1995 BOSNIA

4) It is occuring in Darfu, Sudan.

Background to Hotel Rwanda

1) What are the two major groups in Rwanda?
- The hutu and the tutsi.
2) What group is considered "superior?" Why?
- The tutsi's because they had lighter skin and there features were european.
3) How was this group treated better?
- the beligions were offering them better jobs, housing, and better food.
4) How long did the genocide last? How many people were killed during this time?
- It went on since 1959 to 1994 and 200,000 people were killed.
5) Define genocide.
- the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.