Rwanda Flashcards
What was different about Belgian governance of Ruanda-Urundi than the Congo?
They ruled it as league of nations Mandate and were under obligation to the Trusstees Council to prepare the territories for self-governance
What was Rwanda called under the Belgians?
Ruanda-Urundi
What were Hutu and Tutsi originally?
Economic designations
How did Belgian and German colonizers create them
as ethnic groups with distinct mythical origins. The Tutsis were privleged over the Hutu
who did Belgian back politically in the period leading to independence
Hutu intellectuals
what was the result of Belgian backing of Hutu leadership
a series of massacres from November 1959 to October 1960
who were the inyenzi
“cockroaches” bands of Tutsi exiles who began launching attacks from Uganda in 1961
Who was the leader of the Hutu intellectuals
Gregoire Kakiband
What was the party that led the nation to independence? What year?
PARMEHUTU
1962
What King established a level of non-partisan cooperation in Burundi? What years did he live?
Mwambutsa 4 1915-1966
what was the most prominent political party? founded by the King’s son?
UPRONA
What occured after the death of the King’s son in 1961?
Tutsi purged Hutu leadership from the party.
When did Burundi get independence?
1962
when did a military coup further strengthen Tutsi control?
1966
What did Gregoire Kikiband add to ethni prejudice?
regionalism, his government favored hiring Hutu from central Rwanda
