There was a war in which civilian casualties alone were 5 to 6 million, and the casualties of soldiers on both sides were as high as hundreds of thousands, which was unique after World War II, and this war took place from 1998 to 2002, but I estimate that few people know that there has been such a bloody war in the world.
This was a forgotten war, known as the "African World War"——— the Second Congolese War
And all of this begins in 1994, when a horrific massacre broke out in Rwanda, Africa, known in history as the Rwandan Genocide.
Rwanda, located in the central and eastern part of Africa, covers an area of 26,000 square kilometers, which is a little smaller than the mainland's Hainan Island.
Before the Holocaust, the country had a population of about 7 million, with more than 600 people per square kilometer, making it the most densely populated country in Africa.
The 7 million people are mainly composed of two ethnic groups: hutu and Tutsi
The Hutu are the largest ethnic group in Rwanda, accounting for 85 percent of the country's population; in second place are the Tutsi, with 15 percent of the population.
But let's be clear that these two races are strictly speaking, forcibly divided.
In other words, there is no difference between these two so-called peoples.
They live in the same land, have the same habits, believe in the same religion, and speak the same language.
This is very strange, obviously everyone is exactly the same, so how were these two peoples born?
Here we can glimpse how sinister the hearts of Western colonizers in the 19th century were.
In 1884, Rwanda was given to Germany as a colony, but Germany did not care much about the place, and Rwanda maintained a chieftain tribal form.
Therefore, Rwanda did not have much antipathy towards Germany at this time, after all, it was only nominal submission, which did not mean anything.
It was not until after World War I, when Germany was defeated, that Rwanda was assigned to Belgium.
When Belgium took over, everything changed.
The Belgian colonists promoted a brutal system of slavery in Africa, treating all blacks as slaves, while detaining their wives and children and forcing them to work. If the slaves resisted, they were punished with whipping and cutting off their hands.
In the face of Belgium, Rwanda's resistance was extremely fierce, and the Rwandans fought with the same enemy and fought an arduous battle with the Belgian colonists.
This left Belgium exhausted and unable to maintain its colonial rule.
So, in order to weaken the resistance, Belgium came up with a vicious plan. The Belgian rulers artificially created two nationalities, the Tutsi, who were a minority and the Hutu, who were the majority.
In this regard, it is declared that the Tutsi, who constitute a minority of the population, are a higher ethnic group, while the Hutu, who constitute the majority of the population, are inferior.
The Belgian government, which gave the Tutsi a small privilege, sought to create a contradiction between the Hutu and the Tutsi.
It has to be said that this strategy was very successful, and through this series of racial discrimination policies, Belgium succeeded in turning the Tutsi and Hutu peoples from comrades in harmony and joint resistance to the Belgian colonizers into enemies who turned against each other.
But the way in which these two peoples are divided is unusually ridiculous and ironic.
Simply put, the tall and mighty, handsome are the Tutsi, and the ugly and average figure is the Hutu.
The two on the left are Tutsi and the two on the right are Hutu, are you sure you can tell the difference?
Ugly people have no human rights.
People often hate the small officials around them who are only one or two levels higher than the emperor who is high above him, and the little local tycoons.
This is a common human disease, and for the Belgian government at the far away, the Hutu people of Rwanda hate the Tutsi people around them.
Belgium succeeded in deflecting the conflict between the colonists and the slave workers into hatred between the Tutsi and Hutu. Belgian rule over Rwanda then began to consolidate until 1962.
After Belgium was forced to evacuate Rwanda in 1962, it handed over the colony to the Hutu, who constituted the majority of the population, and it can be seen from here that Belgium did not believe in the nonsense of the Hutu inferiority and the high Tutsi.
It is simply to stir up national contradictions and then reap the benefits of the fishermen. Poor Hutu and Tutsi believed the Belgians.
After gaining power, the Hutu immediately took up the butcher's knife and launched a bloody revenge against the Tutsi.
For more than two decades, the Tutsi lived under the Rwandan government's system of racial discrimination.
Beginning in 1990, the brutally persecuted Tutsi refugees, under the banner of the uprising, formed the Rwandan Patriotic Front, an army, and with uganda's support, began to launch attacks on the Rwandan government.
During the Rwandan civil war, the war intensified hatred between the two sides, with the Hutu promoting the Tutsi as an enemy of the State in the territory and the Tutsi expelling large numbers of Hutu refugees from their occupied territories.
As a result of the years of war, rwandan President Juvenal Habialimana signed a peace treaty with Tutsi armed forces in 1993.
Unfortunately, rwandan president Giownal Habyallimana was stabbed to death in 1994, the beginning of the most horrific ethnic vendetta , the Rwandan genocide.
The Hutus reacted quickly, and they immediately stood up and testified: it must have been done by the Tutsi!
On April 7, a presidential guard of Hutu soldiers stormed the Prime Minister's Office and killed Rwandan female Prime Minister, Tutsi Uveringi Imzana, and three ministers.
A horrific massacre began.
Instigated by the media and radio, Hutus soldiers, militiamen and even civilians, armed with guns, machetes and even a sharpened wooden stick, began an organized massacre of Tutsi (mainly through identity checks).
In just three months, more than 1 million people were killed (less than 1 million in Rwanda, but more than 1 million in public figures), of which 250,000 to 500,000 Rwandan women and girls were raped.
Mind you, this is a country of only 7 million people! 1 million people died!
Of these 1 million people, more than 90 percent are Tutsi, but less than 10 percent of them are Hutus.
Some of these Hutus were killed as "traitors" because they did not want to slaughter the Tutsis; some were killed together because their wives or relatives were Tutsi; others, just because they had a vendetta against other Hutus, they were killed "by taking advantage".
By the time, the killings had gone beyond racial hatred in some areas to outright robberies and murders—many Hutus killed their entire families and divided them up simply because they coveted each other's property.
More than a hundred days later, the Tutsi armed diaspora in Uganda learned of this, and they joined forces with Uganda, which is also a Tutsi regime, to invade the Rwandan capital Kigali in July, completely defeating the racist Hutu government.
The brutal massacre killed 80-1 million Tutsi in a hundred days, representing more than 10 percent of Rwanda's population in total.
More than 2 million Hutus whose hands were stained with Tutsi blood in the massacre fled to neighbouring Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), fearing reprisals, and thousands of them died in camps due to cholera and dysentery.
This massacre directly changed rwanda's demographics – 40% of the country's population was actually children! A large number of women have become widows, and 2 million refugees have fled Rwanda and entered neighboring countries.
The Belgian government has an unshirkable responsibility for all this, but they have not expressed anything, let alone participated in stopping it.
This is the Rwandan genocide, but as we have already said, the Rwandan genocide is just the appetizer of this "African world war"... The real war of terror has only just begun...