History of Rwanda - Second Congo War, Rwandan Civil War, Urewe, Gersony Report, National Congress for the Defence of the People (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Second Congo War, Rwandan Civil War, Urewe, Gersony Report, National Congress for the Defence of the People, Timeline of Rwandan history, Origins of Tutsi and Hutu, Gustav Adolf von Gotzen, German East African rupie, Ruanda-Urundi, Survie, Mai-Mai, List of ministers of the Belgian Congo, Ubuhake, Congolese Banyarwanda, List of kings of Rwanda, Rwandan Revolution, Genocidaires, United Nations Security Council Resolution 172, United Nations Rwanda Emergency Office. Excerpt: Human occupation of Rwanda is thought to have begun shortly after the last ice age. By the fifteenth century the inhabitants had organized into a number of kingdoms. In the nineteenth century, Mwami (king) Rwabugiri of the Kingdom of Rwanda conducted a decades-long process of military conquest and administrative consolidation that resulted in the kingdom coming to control most of what is now Rwanda. The colonial powers, first Germany and then Belgium, allied with the Rwandan court, allowing it to conquer the remaining autonomous kingdoms along its borders and racializing the system of minority Tutsi dominance created under Rwabugiri. A convergence of anti-colonial, and anti-Tutsi sentiment resulted in Belgium granting national independence in 1961. Direct elections resulted in a representative government dominated by the majority Hutu under President Gregoire Kayibanda. Unsettled ethnic and political tensions were worsened when Juvenal Habyarimana, also Hutu, seized power in 1973. In 1991, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed of 6,000 Tutsi refugees from previous decades of unrest, invaded the country, starting the Rwandan Civil War. The war ground on, worsening ethnic tensions, as the Hutu feared losing their gains. In 1994 the assassination of Habyarimana was the catalyst for the eruption of the Rwandan Genocide, in which hun...