POSC311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hutu Power, Tutsi, Hutu
15 Mar 2016
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The background and causes of the genocide in rwanda. Three categories of killings: combatants killing combatants, hutu citizens and militants killing sympathetic hutus, hutu killing tutsi because of their ethnicity. The reason why it is considered a genocide. One of africa"s smallest countries: so with the rising population it had the highest population density in africa. Most jobs were in agriculture but still could not sustain the population. Food production hindered by periodic drought, overgrazing, soil erosion, war, and migration of people. Pre-colonial history and culture: the establishment of tutsi domination. Hutu from the beginning largely outnumbered the twa population: between 1000s and 1400s the tutsis, a cattle people, moved into the area. Used to fighting to protect their lands. So then they were able to take over the land from the hutus over though they were only about 10-14% of the population. Tutsi king was divine and absolute monarch.
