1. What percentage of the population do the Tutsis make up? The Hutus? Who owns the majority of the land?
they were primarily cattle herders while the Hutus, making up 84 percent of the population, were farmers.
2. How did the Belgians show favor toward the Tutsis?
Educational privileges and government jobs were reserved solely for the Tutsis. Identity cards were issued to document ethnicity.
3. Why were identification cards later used for? How is this connected to the Holocaust?
These types of cards were later used to identify the Tutsi during the 1994 genocide.
4. When did Hutus gain political power?
Hutu parties gained control of the Rwandan government in 1959
5. Write two facts about the country of Rwanda.
In three years of civil war, fifty thousand Rwandans were killed and another one hundred thousand (almost all Tutsi) fled the country
In 1972 as many as one hundred thousand Hutus were killed in Burundi.
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