How Did The Belgian Colonize Rwanda?
During the early 1900’s the Belgians had been colonizing Rwanda. The Belgians used the Hutu people who at the time were a majority, as slaves. The Belgian’s favored the Tutsi because they looked more “white”. The belgians would look at the skin tone, the size of their lips and the width of the bridge of their noses to determine this. The Belgians put the Tutsi people in charge of the Hutu’s but when the Belgians decided to leave the area they left the Hutu people in charge. The Hutu were furious with the Tutsi for all the years of forced slavery they had to endure by their fellow countrymen. In 1959 the Hutu’s initiated a revolution that caused as many as 300,000 Tutsi’s to flee the country. By early 1961 the Hutu’s had forced the Tutsi leader