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A 3 page paper discussing the 1994 genocide as a function of an established pattern begun in precolonial times, reinforced during colonial rule and then reinforced further as Hutu and Tutsi control of the government resulted in death among the other group. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of the Hutus to kill every Tutsi and Tutsi-sympathizing Hutu
in existence. It was not always like this in Rwanda. For centuries, the Hutus and Tutsi had coexisted in a kind of
peace that each understood and that each was willing to accept. That all changed, however, when the Europeans "discovered" the great Rift Valley and determined that they would claim
it as their own. Changes initiated in the colonial period culminated with the systematic slaughter of between 800,000 and one million Rwandans in only a few days time in
1994. Origins The events leading to the 1994 genocide began literally centuries earlier when cattle-herding Tutsis migrated down the Rift Valley into the
land of the Hutus. There was initial friction over use of the fertile land, because the cattle of the Tutsis interfered with the Hutus farming activities.
The struggle between the two groups is one based on the common themes of class and land. Though the Tutsis represent a minority of only
about 15 percent of the population, they are the educated people who are in superior positions both politically and socially. As they "imagined" each other, each believed the other
posed a threat. The original immigrating Tutsis settled among the extant Hutus who welcomed the Tutsis, if not their cattle. Before Rwanda
attracted the interest of the imperialists of Germany and Belgium, the Tutsis and Hutus could manage a peace between them, though a stratified one that appears to have been solidified
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