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The Creation of Race

The Creation of Race. How Colonial European Stereotyping contributed to the Rwandan Genocides in 1994. Tribal War or Genocide?. During three short months in 1994, in the small central African country of Rwanda, between 500,000 and one million Tutsi were killed by their Hutu neighbors.

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The Creation of Race

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  1. The Creation of Race How Colonial European Stereotyping contributed to the Rwandan Genocides in 1994

  2. Tribal War or Genocide? During three short months in 1994, in the small central African country of Rwanda, between 500,000 and one million Tutsi were killed by their Hutu neighbors

  3. An estimated 800,000 people, in a population of 7 million, were wiped out in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It was one of the worst slaughters in human history. The aim of the Rwanda government officials who encouraged it was to eliminate all Tutsis from the country.

  4. Neither the U.S. government nor governments in Europe did anything to stop the genocide. Only the triumph of an invading Tutsi army three months after the genocide's beginning in April 1994 put a halt to the killing.

  5. Rwandan men killed at one of the thousands of massacre sites.

  6. The Hutu militia, or the 'Interahamwe' - which means 'those who kill together'.

  7. This Tutsi man survived an attack by machete-wielding assailants.

  8. History of pre-colonial Rwanda Define ethnic differences and similarities of Tutsi and Hutu Effects of colonization of Rwanda by Europeans The Aftermath of European Colonization Topics of Discussion

  9. approximately 85 per cent Hutu and 14 per cent Tutsi. the kings and upper class of both countries were Tutsi, the ordinary population Hutu. Pre Colonial Rwanda

  10. Great Lakes Region

  11. The shores of Lake Mollera, Ruanda

  12. Mother of Mutara III Rudahigwa, the queen mother of Rwanda

  13. King Musinga and the royal family, RwandaPhotographer unknownc. 1910,

  14. Tutsi man, Rwanda

  15. Hutu woman from the Belgian Congo

  16. Physical Differences • Height • Facial features • Skin tone

  17. Type of work • Hutus were an agricultural culture • Tutsi were a pastoral culture

  18. Similarities • Common Language • Common Culture • Lived in the same areas

  19. Colonization 1918Under the treaty of versailles the former German colony of Rwanda-Urundi is made a League of Nations protectorate to be governed by Belgium

  20. Seperation 1926 Belgians introduce a system of Ethnic Identity Cards differentiating Hutus from Tutsis

  21. Both Germany and Belgium turned the traditional Hutu-Tutsi relationship into a racial divide based on European race standards.

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  23. The Aftermath of European Colonization • Since the independence of Rwanda, this separateness has periodically led to one group treating the other as a hated enemy in efforts to rule the countries. • In a real sense, they now conceive of themselves as separate ethnic groups and races.

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