exam 3 Flashcards
The Troubles
Late 1960s - 1998
Gérard Prunier
1999
Genocide was prepared for as far back as 1992 when Habyarimana began negotiating with the RPF
Prunier 1999
Linda Melvern
2004
Genocide began planning in 1990 when the Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) expanded from 10000 to 30000
Melvern, 2004
FAR
Rwandan Armed Forces
RTLMC
Radio Television Libre des Milles Collines
10% of violence
Yanagizawa-Drott, 2014
Importation of machetes on a large scale
1993
Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana
6 April 1994 with Cyprien Ntaryamira
Assassination of PM ______ in ______
Agathe Uwilingiyimana 7 April 1994
Dallaire 2005
By noon on 7 April, the moderate political leadership of Rwanda was dead or in hiding, the potential for a future moderate government was utterly lost.
Habyarimana coup
1973
RPF
Rwandan Patriotic Front
Ugandan Bush War
1986 with the National Resistance Army with Yoweri Museveni
Leader of RPF
Paul Kagame since 1991
Formation of Extremist Hutu groups
1993
UNAMIR
United Nations Mission for Rwanda 1993
Habyarimana wife
Agathe
Akazu
Informal organisation of Hutu extremists
Hutu Power
Anti Tutsi Agenda (Prunier 1999)
Hutu Power vehicles
Kangura magazine,
Hutu 10 Commandments
1992 Coalition for the Defense of the Republic
CDR
Coalition for the Defense of the Republic 1992
impuzamugambi
CPR youth militia
Bahutu Manifesto
1957 by Hutu Scholars. First document to label Hutu and Tutsi as separate. Call for transfer of power from Tutsi to Hutu based on Statistical Law.
Belgian interference
Early 1960s.
Replaced most Tutsi chiefs with hutu
organised elections for hutu majority
Deposed King
Rwanda Independence
1962
Inyenzi
Cockroaches (armed Tutsi refugee groups in Burundi Uganda Zaire and Tanzania
By 1964 more than 300 000 Tutsi fled Rwanda
OG Hutu and Tutsi migration
700BC - 1500 AD
collective name for population
Banyarwanda
Assigning Rwanda and Burundi to Germany
Berlin conference of 1884
Germany in Rwanda
1897 pact with the King
Belgian control
1926 Direct Ruke
The Belgians_____
modernised the economy, but Tutsi supremacy remained, leaving the Hutu disenfranchised. (Prunier 1999)
Introduction of identity cards
1935 labelling each individual as either Tutsi Hutu Twa or Naturalissdd.
Blanket and Dirty Protests
1980 and 81
Hunger Strike
1981
Bobby Sands Funeral
Over 100000 people attended his funeral in West Belfast
IRA received arms from
Gaddafi
Brighton Bombings
12 October 1984
5 killed 34 Injured
Loyalist receiving arms from
South Africa
Gerry Adams as leader of Sinn Fein
1983
Downing Street Bombins
7 Feb 1991 against John Major
Shankill Road Bombing
October 1993 killing 9
UDA mass shootings locations
Grey steel and Castlerock
Dock lands Blmbing
9 Feb 1996 killing 2 injuring 39 causing £85mill
Manchester bombing
1996 injuring 200 and £411mill
RIRA Omagh Bombings
August 1998 killing 29
GFA main points
restore self government to NI on the basis of power sharing
Executive with 4 main parties
Reform of the RUC to PSNI with a requirement to recruit at least 50% Catholic’s over the next 10 years
Progressive closing of redundant BA barracks and observation towers
50th Anniversary of Easter Rising parades
March/April 1966
UVF firmed
Shankhill 1966 by Gusty Spence
Declared War in IRA on 21 May
killed 5 Catholic Civilians
Civil Rights Campaign
Mid 1960s
CRC aims
ending job discrimination ending housing discrimination ending gerrymandering one man one vote reform of police force (90% port) repeal special powers act
Peoples Democracy March
1 January 1969 from Belfast to Derry
Water and Eldcticity Bombing by loyalists
March and April 1969
Resignation of Terrence O’Neill
28 April 1969
Battle of the Bogside
12-14 August 1969
9 year old in Divis Tower
Patrick Rooney
British troops deployed in Derry
15 August 1969
8 Dead 750 injured
Peace Wall built between Shankhill and Falls
10 September 1969
IRA border campaign
1956-62
Irish Volunteers firmed
1913
Signing of the Ulster Covenant
1912 Edward Carson
Easter Rising
1916 Padraig Pearse and James Conolly
15 executed
Last General Election in Ireland
1918
Sinn Fein 47%
Irish war of independence
1919-21
Irish Counties
32
26 Republic
6 Northern
Rwandan Genocide
7 April and 15 July 1994
500-1000 000 killed
70% of Tutsi population