WS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Rwandan Patriotic Front, Rwandan Genocide, Hutu
14 Dec 2017
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Ws 100 - a: lecture: tuesday, november 21st: Lecture notes: state feminism: the aftermath on the rwandan genocide. Rwandan population is primarily hutu, traditionally crop growers. A minority of tutsi, north african herdsmen, have also populated the area. Over the past six centuries they have intermarried and shared a culture, country and language. Hutu have typically laboured on the farms of the landowning tutsi. First colonized by germany at the end of the 19th century, belgium colonized the area following wwi. Typically colonial powers supported an indigenous group to help govern the region. The belgians chose the tutsi, who were taller and perceived to be more aristocratic, to help govern the hutu majority. New political divisions arose between the two peoples. The christian missionaries helped inspire the hutu who now had european weapons to rebel as an oppressed people. 1959 hutu seize power and tutsi escape to neighbouring regions and create the rwandan.
