What role did the belgians play in the rwandan genocide?

Answer 1

In the century before European colonialism, the Tutsi, a nomadic cattle-herding people, moved into Rwanda and neighboring regions. The Tutsi took control of the area from the Hutu, who had centuries before taken it from the Twa (pygmies). The Hutu were primarily subsistence farmers and the Tutsi were able to establish themselves as dominant over the Hutu.

During World War I, Belgian troops from the Congo routed Germans controlling Ruanda-Urundi. Belgium took control of the region. After the end of the war the League of Nations confirmed Belgium's right to the territory.

The Belgians left intact and in fact reinforced the social order in the country. They issued racial identity cards. Hutu were relegated to farming and manual labor while the Tutsi were given authority and rights of aristocracy.

When independence came in 1962, the Hutu people were very tired of being dominated and treated as second class citizens in their own country. However, they never had the political strength to change the situation. Hutu Power and other underground organizations attempted to build strength to rebel but were repressed. A sudden, chaotic, and horribly destructive rebellion finally occurred in 1994. Hutu death squads targeted Tutsi leaders and their families and eventually slaughtered whole villages. Tutsi revenge squads attacked Hutu farms and towns. Because Rwanda is deep inside Africa and because it has no compelling national treasure (oil or minerals), western countries had little incentive to step in to stop the violence. The level of violence quickly exceeded anything that western armies could deliver to stop it, and no one wanted to risk whole airborne divisions stepping in to a situation they did not fully understand.

Answer 2

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