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One million dead in 100 days…How could this happen???

One million dead in 100 days…How could this happen???. I. The African Divide- pg 1. Rwandans shared a common culture and had an organized government structure before colonists arrived. Rwanda originally given to Germany but after WWI Belgium gained control.

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One million dead in 100 days…How could this happen???

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  1. One million dead in 100 days…How could this happen???

  2. I. The African Divide- pg 1 • Rwandans shared a common culture and had an organized government structure before colonists arrived. • Rwanda originally given to Germany but after WWI Belgium gained control

  3. II. Racial Classification and Colonialism – pg 2 • Belgian and German colonists divided the people of Rwanda into 3 different classifications: HUTU, TUTSI and TWA • Belgians thought the Tutsis were a superior people because they were more “white”. The Hutus were considered ignorant peasants

  4. III. Discrimination and Colonialism Leads to Tensions- pg 3 • Hutus made up 85% of population • they were denied higher education, land ownership and positions in the government • Rwandans had to carry identity cards (introduced by the Belgians in 1933)

  5. IV.Independence and Hutu Rulepg 4 • Belgians began to leave Rwanda in late 1950s • 1958-59 over 30,000 Tutsis killed as political power shifts to Hutu • 10,000 Tutsis flee to Uganda and Congo • After independence, the Hutus gained power and oppressed the Tutsis using the same racial classification that was used against them. • Hutus established the MRND: National Revolutionary Movement for Development

  6. V. 100 days of Genocidepg 5 • The genocide was planned and carried out through orchestrated public opinion campaigns using radio, television, newspapers and other hate propaganda. • April 3, 1994 Hutu President Habyarimana’s plane shot down (secretly by Hutu leaders). Hutus blame it on Tutsi rebels. • The genocide begins within 30 minutes of the news – “CUT THE TALL TREES” • It was the duty of every Hutu to exterminate the “cockroaches”(Tutsi). • Outcomes • 1 million Tutsi dead in 100 days

  7. Weapon of choice

  8. Whole families were exterminated babies, old people, children, women are massacred in the most atrocious conditions often cut with machete or knife, or blown apart by grenades or burned or buried alive.

  9. Leave none to tell the story…

  10. Among peacekeepers were ten soldiers who were captured by the Hutus, tortured and murdered. As a result, the US, France, Belgium, and Italy all began evacuating their own personnel from Rwanda. THERE WAS NO EFFORT TO EVACUATE TUTSI CIVILIANS…THEY WERE LEFT TO BE SLAUGHTERED

  11. MASSACRE

  12. Burying the dead

  13. The scars and victims

  14. The scars

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