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history of humanity, can find its roots
way back in the beginning of the
twentieth century, with the European
colonization. Indeed, in order to
dominate this organized and united
nation that the ancient Rwanda was,
the Belgian colonialists transformed it
into fixed and exclusive identities, the
social categories of Hutu, Tutsi and
Twa, which in the pre-colonial
Rwanda were unclear and very
unsteady realities.
The strategy to ‘divide and rule’
was supported by people to serve the
cause of the colonialists. Aware that
this elite group was increasingly
nurturing ideas of nationalism amd
independence in the 1950s, the
colonialists changed plans and
quickly set up preparations to create
alternative Hutu elite, while putting
all the blame of ill treatment, cruelty
and frustration of the colonization on
his former Tutsi allies.
From 1959, on the instigation and
with unquestionable support of the
Belgian colonialist who remained
present even after the so called
independence of 1962, Rwanda was
plunged, for thirty years, into the
politics of dehumanization, hatred,
segregation and systematic exclusion |
of Tutsi, with cyclic massacres,
followed by forced exile, systematic
discrimination at home, and the
institutionalization of impunity for an
crime committed against Tutsi.
It is in this context that unable to
settle peacefully and politically the
numerous problems and challenges of
the 1990s, including the thorny
problem of refugees, unable to win
the war against RPF which had been
provoked by its refusal to settle the
problems, the government prepared
and announced a final solution
starting from 1992, according to
diabolic formula, ‘me or the chaos’.
The implementation of this plan
from April 7, 1994 eliminated more
than one million victims in just a
hundred days.
This genocide which was planned
and was known for many years proved
to Rwandans that either there is no
‘human family’ or if it exists, it
excludes them. Indeed, despite the
fact that much information about the
plan and preparations of the genocide
would have made it possible to
prevent and avoid this tragedy, its
unfolding was simply watched live on
television channels around the world.
The super powers, which had the |
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Background...
Forty nine years after the
famous ‘ Never Again’ clarion
call of the United Nations,
more than one million Tutsi (an
estimated 1,091 000 innocent victims)
were exterminated because of their
ethnic origins. In addition, several
other Rwandans (Hutu, Twa), as well
as foreigners in Rwanda were
massacred for various reasons: some
for being politicians opposed to the
genocidal regime, others for having
refused to participate in the killings
or having hidden Tutsi, others for
other reasons.
This genocide, one of the most
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