HIAF 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rwandan Patriotic Front, Cash Crop, Arusha Accords
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Hiaf 111 lecture 12 genocide in rwanda and the international community"s. Rwanda and coffee: rwanda dependent on coffee. Ideal place to grow coffee: high altitude, good soil. Lots of rain: economic crisis related to price of coffee. Rwandan genocide (april - july 1994: themes, colonial governance, social hierarchies, history of defining hierarchies based on ethnicity/tribes, decolonization, postcolonial conflict. Language: crossroads of afro-asiatic language family (north africa) and bantu language family (west africa, kinyarwanda: language spoken by most rwandans, bantu language family, people who moved from the north integrated into society and picked up the bantu language. Identified tutsi as instrument of indirect rule: monarchy stayed in power, tutsis given chiefships, germans tried to create physical differences between the two classes, tutsi were descendants of those who migrated from the north, so more like. Rwandan patriotic front (rpf: movement arising in refugee camps among tutsis.
