Rwanda Genocide

1. Describe the roles (jobs) between the Hutu and Tutsi group.

-Tutsis tended to be landowners and Hutus the people who worked the land

2. What effect did the European colonists have on them?

-Missionaries, too, came from Europe, bringing a new political twist: the church taught the Hutu to see themselves as oppressed, and so helped to inspire revolution

3. What is the RPF? What group created it?

- RPF rebels seized the moment and attacked: civil war began.
- the Rwandan Patriotic Front

4. When was the Rwandan president killed? What were Hutu civillians told to do as a result?

-On April 6 1994 -The Tutsis were accused of killing the president, and Hutu civilians were told, by radio and word of mouth, that it was their duty to wipe the Tutsis out.

5. What method was used to communicate the plan of genocide against the Tutsis?
-the plane carrying Rwanda's president was shot down, almost certainly the work of an extremist. This was the trigger needed for the Hutus' planned 'Final Solution' to go into operation.