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Rwanda

Rwanda. Hannah, Becca, Teresa The smartest kids in the world!. Population. Rwanda has a population of 11.7 million people. Most of the citizens are young and live in a rural area. Rwanda has one of the highest population densities in Africa. The people consist of the Hutu and the Tutsi.

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Rwanda

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  1. Rwanda Hannah, Becca, Teresa The smartest kids in the world!

  2. Population • Rwanda has a population of 11.7 million people. • Most of the citizens are young and live in a rural area. • Rwanda has one of the highest population densities in Africa. • The people consist of the Hutu and the Tutsi. • They speak the language Kinyarwanda

  3. What happened? • Genocide: The deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation. • In 1994 the Genocide killed 1 million individuals. 20% of Rwanda's population being killed. • Competition and tension built between the Hutu and the Tutsi, causing the Hutu to attack.

  4. Why did it happen? • 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in the course of 100 days. • This happened because the Hutu and the Tutsi were racist to each other. • Trying to both be in power began to build competition and tension between the two groups. • The Tutsis were made higher powered by Germany and the Hutu became the slaves. • Then Belgians took over Rwanda and eventually gave them independence. • After they got independence the Hutus began attacking the Tutsis creating what is now known as the Genocide.

  5. Who were the Hutu and the Tutsi. • The Hutu considered themselves "Black Africans" • The Tutsi were Ethiopian stock with lighter colored skin, narrower noses, and less coarse hair. • The Tutsis were successful herders with high valued cattle. • The Hutu were cultivators. • They both share the same language and religious beliefs. • Before European colonials arrived they even lived with and married each other.

  6. Hutu

  7. Tutsi

  8. Parties involved • The Genocidaires like Akazu, Impuzamugambi militia, and Interahamwe militia. • Hutu power media like Kangura and RTLM radio. • They killed as many Tutsi as they could regardless their sex or age.

  9. International Involvement • Murder of Belgium peacekeepers-pulled out of peacekeeping mission • US was reluctant to join conflict

  10. President Clinton stated five years after the Genocide that if he would have sent in 5,000 US peacekeepers, 500,000 lives could have been saved.

  11. France • French supported the Hutus. • easy access to trade opportunities. France was one of several countries that had originally provided soldiers to the UN peacekeeping force. That force, however, was ordered to never interfere with local operations, which included the genocide, so they stood and watched as hundreds of thousands were killed.

  12. Current Situation • Fourteen years later after the Tutsi population was struck, the aftermath still suffocates Rwanda. • refugees are returning home • HIV and AIDS

  13. UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) working on better education • UNICEF- improve health and education • economy is small, but rebuilding • still suffer from ethnic hatred

  14. How did the genocide end? • Tutsi rebels from the Rwandan Patriotic Front came from Uganda • The genocide hasn't fully ended • Hutu rebels in Congo

  15. Sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-rwandan-genocide-why-it-happened/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda

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