The Root causes of the Rwandan
Genocide
There is no need to write academic or
freelance journalism books about the Rwandan genocide. Simply, the root causes
of the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 are:
1)The long historical ethnic
discrimination and apartheid practiced by The Tutsi ( about 14 % of the total
Rwandan population) against the Hutu ( more than 85% of the total population).
2)The vast majority of Hutu
community’s feared of the return of the apartheid and discriminatory monarchy
system that was practiced by the minority Tutsi community against the enslaved
majority Hutu community for about 500 years.
3)The Hutu community’s feared of
Kagame’s guerrilla that committed massacres in the North of the country and
other parts of the country including assassinations of Rwandan politicians.
4) The Rwandan people felt abandoned
by the International Community ( who was believed to support Kagame’s
guerrilla), and then decided to defend themselves with whatever means they had
against the advance of Kagame’ guerrilla supported by Ugandan, Tanzanian and
Ethiopian armies, UK and USA.
5) Kagame’s refusal to share political
power with the Government he was fighting against because he was relying on
full US, UK and Uganda military support to defeat the former Rwandan regime.
6) Kagame deliberately put the lives of Tutsi his life in danger by
recruiting them to sympathise and support financially the war that was killing
Hutus in the North and the former regime’ politicians known to have been killed
by Kagame. This led to the reprisals by Hutu against the Tutsi. Kagame fought
the war on internal ethnic mobilisation of Tutsi rather than on national and
cross-ethnic cause. The wide military and intelligence infiltration in the
country by Kagame soldiers was the preparation of the genocide.
7) Romeo Dallaire
who served as Force Commander of United Nations peacekeeping force
for Rwanda between 1993 and 1994 was pro-Kagame war. He failed to maintain the
neutrality over Rwandan conflicts. The Rwandan people, the government and the army was aware of this. After he has been meeting with Kagame
on several occasions.
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