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Belgians had used the Hamitic Myth. The Hutu was there first and the Tutsi had invaded, but there is no evidence of this. Europeans thought nobles were tall and thin. Tutsi were tall and thin, so they must be descendants from Ethiopia, which they regarded as the most superior of africans. In Burundi there was no such conquest. Kings were elected and could either be Hutu or Tutsi, either/or. There was a sense of commonness. In Rwanda the kingship was gained thru conquest, making the muth seen more plausible. In Burundi Hutu and Tutsi were even in the same political party, but the leader was assasinated. There was a Hutu revolution in Rwanda. Hutus went on a
This refugee crisis led to thousands put in refugee camps, and this creates the potential to create militant soldiers. Because of this fear many Tutsi flee Rwanda, some to Burundi, some to !Uganda. There was a struggle for power within the Tutsi leadership, also in the Hutu leadership in Rwanda. Hutu didn't do anything in Burundi, the two nations were a mirror image of each other. Tutsi military quickly squashed this and began a genocidal attack on the Hutu, using the action of the Hutu rebels as as excuse to practice genocide. Refugee camps also keeps region destabilized. The population feels lost hopes, rejected by life, nowhere to go, so there are many recruits from refugee camps. They figured this was the only way to protect themselves from the Hutus. rampage attacking Tutsi and Belgian officers did nothing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Tutsi radicals in Burundi, for fear of persecution become more extreme, and use positions of power to consolodate Tutsi power. In 62 they were given independance and in 65 there was a renewed cycle of violence in Rwanda. They got rid of the leadership, then the g!enocide went thru the genocidal stages. By 66 the Tutsi military officers force a coup, and establishes a Tutsi military dictatorship. In 72 in Burundi in Tutsi leadership competition was so intense that some of the Hutus decided to revolt because Tutsis were at their weakest.
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