- Rwanda. 1994. In Rwanda there are two main kinds of people. Hutu and Tutsi. "a Hutu majority; a Tutsi minority"(Ilibagiza). "Tutsi were supposed to be taller, lighter-skinned, and have narrower noses; while Hutu were shorter, darker, and broad-nosed."(Ilibagiza)
- These two differences had very little effects on the people because Tutsis would marry Hutus, and Hutus would marry Tutsis. However in 1994 a genocide occured. Genocide:"the deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation."(Oxford).
- "Between half a million and a million people out of Rwanda's total population of 8 million, died in a few weeks between April and June 1994."(Steven). This was forcing the Rwandans to flee their homes taking whatever they could carry with them, and in some cases not even being able to take anything except for the clothes on their backs. Rwandans had to flee to a refugee camp in Ngara roughly twenty five miles from their homes. They had no cars, motorcycles, or any of the fine luxuries that we take advantage of everyday.
- If you are at all interested what happened in Rwanda I would recommend reading a book called "Left To Tell" by Immaculee Ilibagize. The info is in my work cited page. The book isn't about the war, just the person story of Immaculee Ilibagize.
Work Cited Page
Photograph
Salgado, Sebastiao. Photograph. Migrations: Humanity in Transition. Aperture. New York, 2000. 171.
Steven. “1990-1994: The genocide and War in Rwanda.” Libcom.org
8 Sept. 2006. Web. 12 Feb. 2010
Ilibagize, Immaculee. Left To Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. Hay House Inc. 2006.
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