Why did the Hutu want to kill the Tutsi?

Answer 1

The Hutus claimed that the Tutsies assassinated their 1st populary elected president, so the Hutus took immediate action making messages to broadcast on "Hate Radio" to kill all Tutsis. This soon turned into the Rwandan Genocide and nearly 1,000,000 Rwandans were murdered.

Answer 2

The Hutu and Tutsi people got along prior to colonization, but conflict arose between them when Europeans colonized Rwanda. The Europeans thought that the Tutsi appeared more European and gave the Tutsi more privilege and power, while stripping the Hutu of their power. The Hutu began to see the Tutsi as oppressors and their resentment of the Tutsi's special treatment led them to want to destroy the Tutsi race.

Answer 3

This is probably over simplified. however. While Rwanda was under the control of the french they set up a class system where the owners of cattle were given preferential treatment over others. The problem was that the herd owners were nomadic and the people that had permanent settlements suddenly found themselves under the political control of people that had no business giving them orders. needless to say when the french Finlay left they left behind a recipe for disaster and resentment. as those that were in fact nomads were left in charge of the permanent population.

Answer 4

The Tutsis looked more European (not really) than the Hutus because the Tutsis' were taller, thinner features, and were lighter skinned. The Hutus however were stockier, darker skinned and broad features. The Europeans even went as far as measuring the nose width to determine if the African should be a Tutsi or a Hutu

Answer 5

Class warfare was the root of the conflict between the Tutsis and Hutu, but the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana, the Hutu president of Rwanda, on April 6, 1994 is what sparked the mass genocide of Tutsis.

Answer 6

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