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