Rwanda Genocide Vocab Grab

The country that colonized Rwanda before World War I.

Germany

• When Germany was punished for WWI and lost their colonial possessions, who took over

Rwanda?

 

Belgian Colony

• How did Belgium create social classes and divide the local tribes of the Hutu, Tutsi, and

Twa?

Racial Identity Cards

• A genocide that occurred in Europe that can be used as a frame of reference to Rwanda’s

genocide.

Jewish Holocaust

• What was formed to keep something like the Holocaust from happening again.

• United Nations is founded

• Document called for a double liberation of the Hutu people, first from the race of white

colonials, and second from the race of Hamitic oppressors, the Tutsi in 1957

• Hutu Manifesto 

Also known as the Rwandan Revolution. An estimated 20,000 to 100,000 Tutsis were killed. Belgium sent troops to stop the

revolution but were accused by the Tutsi of helping the Hutu’s violence against the Tutsi

• “The Wind of Destruction”The first campaign of Hutu Violence toward 

Tutsi

• Rwanda set up a government with the Hutu in charge as a way to keep some type of control

of the colony.

• Rwanda becomes an independent country

• Dictator - talks tough about what the Hutu can do to the Tutsi… helps to establish a strong

Hutu gov’t. In power for 21 years.

• Juvenal Habyarimana 

• Group of Tutsi trying to remove Habyarimana from power politically… Rwanda is not a free

state.

• RPF attempts to end Habyarimana’s rule

• document published in the December 1990 edition of Kangura, an anti-Tutsi, Hutu Power Kinyarwanda-language newspaper in Kigali,

Rwanda

• Hutu 10 Commandments

The Accords which included points considered necessary for lasting peace: the rule of law, repatriation of refugees both from fighting

and from power sharing agreements, and the merging of government and rebel armies.

• Arusha Accords are signed

His plane is shot down. Both the Hutu and Tutsi are suspected of shooting it down. The Hutu end up pinning it on the Tutsi as a power grab… they’re just doing what they’ve always done. The minority trying to rule the majority.

• Habyarimana is killed

• Radio broadcasts urge people to do their duty and seek out the Tutsis and Tutsi-

sympathizers living among them in their streets or villages. Eliminate the cockroaches

is the message.

• The State radio announces that May 5th is to be “cleanup” day

• The assassination of Habyarimana in April 1994 set off a violent reaction, during which

Hutu groups conducted mass killings of Tutsis (and also pro-peace Hutus, who were

portrayed as "traitors" and "collaborators").

• 800,000 Rwandans die