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A 5 page overview of the conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes of Rwanda which culminated in a bloody civil war in 1994 in which the Hutu majority tried to exterminate the Tutsi minority. The writer gives the historical background which led up to this conflict showing the multiple causal factors which contributed to this genocidal effort. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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independence in 1959. During the colonial period, the Tutsi had been the favored tribe by (Uvin 6). Establishing one tribe as preferred over another was a common practice among European
colonizers who tended to rule, in part, through a privileged tribe (Rieff 27). The British followed this pattern with the Ibo tribe in Nigeria, and the French had a similar
pattern using the Rabyle in Algeria (27). Some scholars believe that the distinction between the Tutsi and Hutu is largely a European invention. For example, Reiff believes that Europeans
misinterpreted the social structure of the area completely, and that designations of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" were class distinctions among the same people. The two groups shared a common language and
had the same religion, and they lived side by side. Hutus were largely peasants and farmers while to be defined as a Tutsi required the ownership of ten or
more cattle (Rieff). It was possible for a "Hutu" to become a "Tutsi" through the accumulation of wealth, and likewise, for a Tutsi to lose his wealth and become a
Hutu. Uvin, on the other hand, points out that the Tutsi and the Hutus migrated to the area as distinctly separate ethnic groups. Of the tribes occupying Rwanda only the
Twa, who make up about 1% of the population, are the only group actually indigenous to the area (McDonald PG). The Tutsis and the Hutus had remained distinct enough for
European colonial forces to be able to discern a difference in appearance between the two groups. Generally, the Tutsi are tall with relatively light-skin and aquiline noses while the Hutus
are stereotyped as short, dark and with broader noses. These generalizations concerning appearance pleased European racial theorists who imagined that the Tutsi were non-African in origin and, therefore, more
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