Rwanda Blood Spill

Rwanda Blood Spill

Introduction

In 1994 the population of Rwanda went through an increase reaching such a point that the resources were missing to supply the population. The resources that had been given to the highest social classes belonging to the Hutus, who were privileged with the scarce resources existing in Rwanda. The government made a decision which consisted of shedding blood from the lower ethnicities. Fear that an ethnic group disappears. With the fear of the lower ethnicities to be killed because of the lack of resources for the supply of the population, both the tutsis and the Twa watched the well -being of both ethnicities.

Developing

All this in order that food, resources and their distribution do not miss or scarce for the Hutus and a small part of these for the other ethnicities. Struggle to achieve power. Rwanda since its inception has been colonized, despite this it was an autonomous government because they did not give due importance, they only used Rwanda as a source of resources, goods and taxes, but when they arrived at Belgium’s domain, things changed things. When the Belgian Government Domó Ruanda, it was directed by the Hutus, however, by increasing the Belgian population, the Belgians supported the tutsis to occupy power over Rwanda.

At the end of the colonization stage the tutsis thought about returning the power, however, the Hutus kept power. In addition, this may be another cause that unleashed Rwanda’s genocide.

Social castes in Rwanda there were always castes, depending on ethnicity, not on development because because of this ethnicity of a social class. At that time they were grouped as follows: Hutus: Ethnicity was a farmer, it was 85% of the population. Tutsis: made up of herd owners, with a total of 14%. TWA: day laborers and servants, consisting of 1% of the population.

conclusion

As a social pyramid in Rwanda, the cusp was occupied by the tutsis, however, not only for the work they possessed but for their ethnic background, the tutsis were considered closer to Europeans and therefore this framework of differences between ethnicities was soGreat, for the same reason they were considered privileged;The Hutus occupied the average base for their work, were also considered vassals;As the basis of this social pyramid, there are the Twa, minority ethnicity and with sources of work that implies being raised or day laborers, were protected from the other ethnicities who enjoyed the greatest comfort.