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Causes Of The Rwandan Genocide In Rwanda

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Rwanda is made of 3 ethnic groups which are the Hutu (85% of population), the Tutsi (14%) and the Twa (1%). During colonisation the minority Tutsi were typically considered the elite because they had much lighter skin compared to the Hutu this created division between the Rwandan populations because they ruled the country during colonisation. When Rwanda gained independence in 1962, the Hutus thought that the Tutsi people were to blame for the increasing social and economic problems that the country was facing and they were angry at the Tutsi. This was one of the long term causes of the Rwandan genocide.
Furthermore, in August 1993, General Habyarimana (a Hutu) signed an agreement at Arusha, Tanzania, that was about including the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which would mean that the government would have both Hutu and Tutsi representatives leading the country. This made the Hutu very angry as they felt that the Tutsi did not deserve to be in power and so they tried to prevent the RPF from joining the government. Then in 1994, General Juvenal Habyarimana was elected as the president of Rwanda, in the same year his plane was shot while flying above Kigali airport in Rwanda and there were no survivors. When the news about the presidents’ death were announced to the public, the Hutu suspected that his plane was shot by the Tutsi. Source 2 is proof of this hatred that the Hutu had against the Tutsi, because the eye witness speaks about o they came to attack her family because she

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