Rwanda

Geography 

Rwanda is located in Central Africa, to the east of Republica of the Congo.Rwanda has a area of 26 thousands square kilometers, and 3% is water.Is covered by grassland and has small farms over rolling hills.Some mountains on the southeast tha come from a chain of volcaones in the northwest

Rwanda is located only two degrees south of the equator, the rainy seasons are between febraury and may and between september and december.Rwanda has a lot of natural resources such as,gold,cassiterine,wolframite, methane, cofee, tea and arable land.

 uncontrolled deforestation for fuel, overgrazing, soil exhaustion and widespread poaching is affecting Rwanda´s environment.

Brief History 

The population of Rwanda is divided into three etnic groups, The Hutu's (85%), The Tutsi's (14%) and The Twa (1%). Tutsi generally occupied the higher class in the social system and the Hutu the lower, making both groups fight for the power of the country. The Tutsi had the advantage that Belgium took care over them, but it all changed when Germany was forced to leave the country, leaving them with no defence. As the Hutus were the majority of the population, they took advantage and aim to become the only racial group in Rwanda, eliminate this 15% of population by causing genocide.

All this began in 1962 when the King Tutsi died and the Hutus took the power. Millions of Tutsi were exiled from their lands, which started strong ethnic tensions among the races. 
In 1994 the Hutu government felt threatned by the invasion of the Tutsis and because of that it began the most recent genocide of this century. 

The murder of the President Rwandese make the Hutus take advantage of the situation and try to get rid of all the Tutsis by burning their houses and killing them. Million of women were rapped and the children became orphans. In only 100 days of war, it was estimated that 800 people between both ethnic groups were killed. 

Nowadays, the present government of Rwanda has eliminate this ethnic groups and make all one self race to avoid more fights of differences. Now, people have ejected professions and live in liberty and work day by day to forget the events occurred years ago and instead, look forward to the future

Different races in Rwanda. You can notice in the picture that the Hutus have a darker skin colour, more black than the Tutsis. 

















What Happened?

Genocide timeline:

1918: The belgians had the control of rwanda.
1933: The belgians declare the division of ethnic groups separating them by Hutus,Tutsis and          Twa.
1948: The United Nations declared genocide as a crime under internation law.
1959:Hutus rebelion started against the government and Tutsis
1962: Rwanda is independant

1988:The RPF ( Rwandan Patriotic Front) was created in Uganda.

1990: RPF invades rwanda causing a civil war.

1994:

•  Rwandas president is killed and Hutus took advantage to attack its opponents (Tutsis)
•   A lot of masacres occur during april,and all of them are against tutsis, killing them and leaving them with no resources.
• At the end of April after an aproximate of 250,000 people killed,Tutsis were able to leave the country to the neighbour country Tanzania.
• The French people established  a safe zone in the southwest corner of Rwanda.
• Mid-july genocide ends when the RPF took control of the country.
  

Role of Media

Media played a significant part in both external and internal positions in this conflict .During genocide the newspaper and the radio were used carefully towards the Tutsis because mainly all information was from Hutus part. Radio was used by the Hutu extremist to mobilise the Tutsi, and to communicate to coordinate the killings and ensure their plans of extermination were succesful. 

 

 

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