Encounters with conflict and peace
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History, inequality and oppression
A HISTORY OF CONFLICTThe Belgians found the Tutsi easier to get along with: just one of the many twists and turns that have shaped Rwanda. Get up to speed on 100 years of east African history in three and a half minutes... more
A young Rwandan woman tells how she became friends with one of the interahamwe militia. "I ran into a group of them armed with machetes and grenades. They started pushing me around... watch
A history of conflict
Real differences
A HISTORY OF CONFLICT"You will never see the source of a genocide. It is buried too deep in grudges, under an accumulation of misunderstandings that we were the last to inherit... more
Hutu and Tutsi
A HISTORY OF CONFLICTThe ideas around Hutu and Tutsi have played a big part in Rwanda's history. Confused about who's who? Find out what Hutu and Tutsi has meant to Rwandans... more
Ideas and events that have shaped Rwanda
TIMELINE FROM 19th CENTURYThe division between Hutu and Tutsi was sometimes blurred. Some Hutu bought cattle and some Tutsis became poor peasants, but there evolved over time a dangerous sense... more
Insight
When a society is already fragile, unpredictable events can mean the difference between survival and tragedy. Crop failures, loss of income and wars in neighbouring countries... more
What was it like in the villages of Rwanda in the months leading up to the genocide? One survivor said, "It was the intellectuals who planted the idea of genocide in their heads...” more
The politics of racism
Early colonists - the Germans and the Belgians - brought a strange collection of pseudo-scientific race theories. They also found the Tutsi easier to deal with... more
Inflamed Hutus armed with machetes, hoes, and spears against their master-rulers, the Tutsis. A great massacre began, such as Africa had not seen for a long time...... more
Hundreds of thousands of people became unwelcome refugees in surrounding countries. Many Tutsi fled north to Uganda where they were cruelly treated by the armies of the Ugandan dictators...... more
In the years before the genocide, there was a stream of hostile anti-Tutsi propaganda from politicians, university professors and media personalities.... more
Radical solutions to the “Tutsi problem” were not new. But leading up to the genocide, long-standing prejudice became increasingly fanatical and threats became more explicit…... more
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A HISTORY OF CONFLICT
Real differences
Hutu and Tutsi
A history of conflict
THE POLITICS OF RACISM
Colonialism
A messy power shift
Refugees and scapegoating
Cheap tricks
Preparing for genocide
INSIGHTS
Pressures
In the villages
STORIES
My friend the killer
Real differences
Hutu and Tutsi
A history of conflict
THE POLITICS OF RACISM
Colonialism
A messy power shift
Refugees and scapegoating
Cheap tricks
Preparing for genocide
INSIGHTS
Pressures
In the villages
STORIES
My friend the killer
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