RWANDA

AGRICULTURE

• Overwhelming agricultural economy.
• Constitutes the main economic activity for the rural households.

POPULATION PROBLEMS

• Rwanda held one of the highest populations in Africa.
• 85% of the population were Hutus while the remainder were mainly Tutsi.
• The ruling Belgians favored the minority of Tutsi, this caused tension.

background

• Ethnically motivated violence raised after Belgians favored the Tutsis.
• Hutu revolution in 1959 forced 300,000 Tutsis to flee.
• Burundi's President, Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down in a plane.
• Extremist from the Hutu and the Tutsis ganged up to perform mass violence against each other.

Cyprien Ntaryamira

• 1972: He entered school in Bujumbura, but after an abortive Hutu rebellion in 1972, he and thousands of other ethnic Hutus fled the country
• 1982: Ntaryamira eventually received a degree in agriculture from the National University of Rwanda in Butare in 1982.
• 1986: In August 1986, he became a founding member and economic policy director of the Hutu-dominated Front for Democracy in Burundi party.

who got invovled

• Presidential guard and Rwanda armed forces joined in on the scenario.
• Interahamwe - a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again. (“Those Who Attack Together”)
• Impuzamugambi - a Hutu militia in Rwanda formed in 1992. (“Those Who Have the Same Goal”)
• Prime Minister Agathe Uwillingiyimana and her 10 body guards.

Agathe Uwillingiyimana

• Agathe Uwilingiyimana, sometimes known as Madame Agathe, was a Rwandan political figure. She served as Prime Minister of Rwanda from 18 July 1993 until her death on 7 April 1994. Her term was ended when she was assassinated during the opening stages of the Rwandan Genocide. She was Rwanda's first and so far only female prime minister.
• Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, a moderate Hutu, was assassinated. Her murder was part of a campaign to eliminate moderate Hutu or Tutsi politicians, with the goal of creating a political vacuum.

Violence continues to grow

• Between April and June of 1994, an estimated 800,00 Rwanda civilians are pronounced dead.
• Over 200,000 people participated in the genocide.
• Lead up to the U.S. banishing the term "genocide" for any use by a U.S. official.
• Propoganda was being used on television and radios, promoting the killing of more Hutu and Tutsis members.

violence continues to grow

• Thousands of Hutu murdered. Men, women, and children perished.
• Mass violence continues, even today.

Results

• Put fear in the people of Rwanda.
• Eye-opener for many civilians.
• Gave an outlook into the future.
• Continued ethnically inflicted violence.