Rwanda Genocide Causes

Between April and June 1994 is when the genocide started in Rwanda. Where about 800,000 Rwandan have been killed in the span of 100 days little over, three months in Rwanda and the minority of them were Tutsi. Politics, Power, and Ethnic are the cause of the genocide.

Politics was one of the causes of the genocide. “Despite the opposition forces reaching a peace agreement in 1992, political negotiations continued in attempt to achieve harmony between the Tutsis and Hutu.” (Endgenocide) The government had a peace negotiation between the Tutsis and Hutu to settle the conflict that has been going for years. That good because they can settle their entire problems they had and be on the same page. “Hutu attackers burned down churches with hundreds or thousands of Tutsis inside. The violence was triggered by the death of

President Juvénal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, in a plane crash on April 6, 1994.” (CNN) The Hutu extremist did a rocket on the plane carry the president killed him and everyone on the plane no survivors. Because they hated that, the president did a peace negotiation with Tutsi. Therefore, they did the rocket attack and blamed it on the Tutsi to provide an excuse for the genocide. That is one of the causes of the genocide.
Power is also another cause of the Rwanda genocide because “the extremist ethnic Hutu regime in office in 1994 appeared genuinely to believe that the only way it could hang on to power was by wiping out the ethnic Tutsis completely.”(BBC) These killings were not done out hatred for Tutsi. If so, moderate Hutus would not have been subject to the same fate. Instead, the Hutus wanted to gain and consolidate power, and they attempted to exploit the ethnic tensions “Hutus set out to destroy the entire Tutsi population and seek revenge on the power that had always been deemed the elite.”(BBC) Hutu seized power by killing the Tutsi. Another reason why power was also one of the causes in the genocide.
Ethnic conflict begins years before the genocide happened.

So ethnic must have been one causes. “People used to be Tutsi or Hutu, depending on the proximity to the king. If you were close to the king, you owned wealth, you owned many cattle, and you are a Tutsi. If you are far away from the king, you are a cultivator, you don’t own much cattle, and you are a Hutu.” (PBS) Their king probably has a Tutsi. Because the people the king was close must have had the same ethnicity. “The Belgians, who ruled what, would later become Rwanda and Burundi, forced Hutus and Tutsis to carry ethnic identity cards. The colonial administrators further exacerbated divisions by only allowed Tutsis to attain higher education and hold positions of power.”(PBS) Because of their ethnic, the Hutu had a low status because they were Hutu. Therefore, they weren’t being treated equal and there was not anything they can never have a higher status.

The Rwandan genocide was one of the most monstrous crimes against humanity. Driven by political issues, hunger for power and ethnic differences. The genocide is now over but remnants remain, showing the pain and suffering that

happened