Rwanda is mainly composed of two ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi, who, in fact, have shared the same language and script since ancient times and share the same culture and customs.
Tutsi and Hutus
In the colonial era, Rwanda was invaded by foreign invaders, the colonists in order to facilitate their colonization and management of Rwanda, adopted the way of supporting the "pseudo-government", the colonists according to their appearance, divided into two races, with lighter skin color, narrower nose blacks divided into Tutsi, others as Hutu, because the division of the Tutsi population is small, accounting for only about one percent of the total population, convenient for the colonists to control, so the Tutsi became the administrators under the colonizers. It also has a high social status and the right to use resources such as education.
The distinction between Tutsi and Hutu
This also became the beginning of the contradiction between the two races, the Tutsi, while enjoying materials and power, naturally helped the colonists to exploit and squeeze the Hutus more fiercely, and since ancient times, the oppression of the traitors to their compatriots has always been more than the abusers, otherwise they will not reflect their value.
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By the end of the colonization, the Tutsi had made great strides in their population due to their long-term dominance, reaching more than ten percent of the total population, and the Tutsis had become a propertied class, rich and powerful social elite after a long period of oppression and exploitation of the Hutu people; on the contrary, the Hutu were in a long-term oppression and exploitation, living like slaves, getting poorer and poorer, which also aggravated their contradictions and deepened the contradictions.
Peacekeepers
It was not until after the founding of the country, due to the large hutu population and the greater the number of votes cast, that the presidency naturally fell into the hands of the Hutu people, and the hutu revenge against the Tutsi began, starting with a small-scale conflict, and then becoming more and more intense, and the oppressed Tutsi either fled or gathered to form the Rwandan Patriotic Front.
Conflict breaks out
The genocide began on April 6, 1994, when Hutu President Giulenall Habialimana was on a plane and the plane was destroyed, which the Hutus accused the Tutsi Patriotic Front of doing and their revenge, which also ignited the centuries-old oppression of the Hutu people against the Tutsi, first the president escorted the massacre of all the high-ranking Tutsi officials, robbed them of their wealth, and even more instigated emotions on radio and television, shouting "Let all the depression burst out." At such a moment, blood will roll out", and the out-of-control crowd searched for and killed Tutsi people everywhere under the call of the media, as long as they were Tutsis, men, women and children, if married, they were scattered and killed, and sometimes even the Hutu compatriots who tried to sympathize with and help the Tutsi were also considered traitors and killed together. In every city and village in Rwanda, there are massacres of hutu and Tutsi people everywhere, with corpses strewn across the country.
Massacres carried out by the Hutu against the Tutsi
There is a scene in the reality adaptation of the movie "Hotel Rwanda", when the protagonist Paul went to buy food for the restaurant and came back, the owner of the goods in order to knock him, let him drive back to the riverside road, saying that it was safe there, when he and his assistant drove back through there, because there was fog, driving slowly, visibility was very low, the car was always blocked by something, he got out of the car to check, he tripped over something, he stood up, waited until a gust of wind blew through the fog, looked at the ground full of corpses, the aisle, the grass was full of corpses.
There were corpses everywhere
From April 7, 1994 to July 1994, in just three months, the Tutsi population was reduced by 70%, nearly one million people were slaughtered, and 300,000 women were killed. It was not until July that the Tutsi Patriotic Front, in alliance with neighboring Uganda, defeated the Hutu army and successfully seized power, allowing society to gradually return to stability, while some of the former Hutu officials and participants in the massacre fled to neighboring countries or other countries in fear of reprisals from the Tutsi. The genocide has also made this already poor country worse, with a large number of labor losses, economic collapse, population proportion changes, the country's economy regressing, and the consequences of the genocide affecting all aspects of the country.
Escape after the war
"Hotel Rwanda" is based on this true event, and the protagonist Paul is also based on the manager of the hotel, Paul Rusesabagina, who later immigrated to Belgium. In the film, the protagonist Paul uses all his money and connections to protect his wife and children and the customers of the hotel, and for him, in the turbulent times, protecting his Tutsi relatives and friends has become the biggest mission and challenge in his life. The inaction of the UN peacekeeping force and the isolation from the world media have strengthened the confidence and courage of the Paul couple and the 1268 local residents who took refuge in the hotel.
There is nothing left for peacekeepers
The evacuation of foreigners, they were abandoned
The movie "Hotel Rwanda" is worth seeing, which not only expresses the cruelty of war, the blood flowing, but also expresses the powerlessness of ordinary people in the face of war, even if they have money and power, when war comes, they are worthless. This film is worth watching.