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Rwandan genocide Flashcards

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1
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How many killed

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800,000 Tutsis in 100 days

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Political identities

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Legally binding

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Race branding

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Belief that a group is inferior

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Master race

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Coloniser e.g. Belgium

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Subject race

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Seen as more civilised in coloniser’s perspective. Petty discrimination but in the same legal universe e.g. Tutsis

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Direct rule

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Racial distinction. Civic law

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Indirect rule

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Ethnic distinction. Customary law

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Hamitic hypothesis

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Said Tutsis were cursed sons of Ham and therefore superior

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When did identity become fixed in Rwanda

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1920s (Belgian rule)

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Hutu education

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Swahili

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Tutsi education

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French, assimilation education

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How does cultural identity become ethnic identity

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When it is legalised by the regime

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Famine in Rwanda

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1941-1945, 200 000 died

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Belgian switch support

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1950s because Tutsis develop an anti-colonial consciousness

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Bahutu manifesto

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Hutu fighting white colonialists and ‘Hamitic invaders’

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Hutu driven revolution

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1959, every institution has a Hutu majority character

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Accommodationist

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Parties that wanted to unite Hutus and Tutsis against common oppressor

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Exclusivist

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Uniting Hutus against Tutsis and vise versa

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PARMEHUTU

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Hutu exclusivist party which emerges as dominant force

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Uganda

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1970s and 80s, Tutsi exiles join struggle against dictator but are only given citizenship after 10 years

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Rwandan Patriotic Army

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Armed return to Rwanda, Uganda supports it with arms but Hutus alarmed

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Camps

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Hutus flee RPA areas and end up spreading propaganda and fear

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Pre-colonialism

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Hutu and Tutsis integrated and can marry into the other

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Identity cards

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State political identity e.g. ethnicity and race. 1933

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