HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Rwandan Patriotic Front, African National Congress, Mobutu Sese Seko
13 Nov 2020
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In 1300 the tutsis came in rwanda and overruled the original population of hutus. Burundi and rwanda were belgian trust territories from the end of world war i until independence in 1962. Just before belgium left, they recognized the country as the country of the original population. This was a 180 change, because before the tutsis were the strongest in belgium. So when the belgium left, the hutus filled the power vacuum. Tutsis were the pre-colonial elite of cattle keepers whom the belgians had used as agents of their rule, hutus were the farmer majority. After independence, the tutsis retained power in burundi, but in rwanda the hutu middle class led the liberation movement and formed the new government. Lot of tutsi refugees fled to rwanda and. In the1980s, some of them helped the national resistance army (nra) to gain power in.
