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.
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