AFAMAST 1122 Study Guide - Final Guide: Hutu Ten Commandments, Arusha Accords, Interahamwe

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: African American & African Std
• Course: AFAMAST 1122
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Rwanda people need land ownership to grow crops. 1980s droughts: caused shortfall in food supply. Drop in coffees prices causes devaluation in currency. Inflation grows from 1% in 1989 to 19. 2 in 1991. World bank loans rwanda 139. 2 million in march 1991. Hutu would agree to share power with tutsi. When habyarimana (president of rwanda) with pressure to get peace with tutsi he signs the. Arusha accords for hutu peace with tutsi, & his people saw him as traitor. April 1994- president"s plane was shot down, and hayariamanas own gov"t shot down the plane, caused the genocide to begin. After the plane is shot down interahamwe (civilization militia organized by bagosora) were road blocks and when you were stopped at the roadblock and asked for your id card and if you were tutsi you were killed. Many would go to churches for seeking refugee, but many of the priests were actually.