war in rwanda africa what happend and who was affected?
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The basics of it was that when Belgium colonized the area, they invented a sort of racial divide in the country between Tutsis and Hutus. There is little actual difference between the two groups, but the Belgians found it helpful to create a tiered class system. The Tutsis, the minority, were given priveleged status and ran the government in most respects. The Hutus, the majority of the population, were kept out of office and influence.\n\nEventually the strife between the two came to such a head that the Tutsis were forced to resign from most positions of government and a new, fairly democratic constitution was made, which meant that the Hutus took control. As a result most of the Tutsis fled the country.\n\nThere was a growing movement for democracy and reunification of the two ethnic groups, but when talks failed Tutsis invaded the country. As a result, there was a massive uprising against Tutsis, in which the ruling class of Hutus killed at least 100,000 Tutsis. Eventually the Tutsis defeated the Hutus and ended the genocide. Afterwards 2 million Hutus fled the country, fearing reprocussions from the Tutsis. They have now mostly returned.
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The current Rwanda government is claiming that they have evidence from the investigation of the genocide that the French trained the "militias" that were responsible for the atrocities. Check the lates article out of Africa linked below.
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WTF is your question?  Angola was never under South African domination....  There was a 3 way civil war seemingly forever, and there were some SA operatives involved (I know this from  personal knowledge - there were also some US operatives involved too).
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Except for the small detail of the army that's perpetrating that genocide, yes.  The problem is that malnourished people without weapons cannot overtake a governmental army.  It also doesn't help that the African Union is doing nothing to help the situation there.  They have 7,000 troops (who don't do anything) to patrol an area the size of France.
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Tribalism is the root of Africa's problems.  Similar to Hitler's genocide, but no one cares.  Africa offers some natural resources.\n\nMuslim extremists are now expanding in Africa.  Sudan is a prime example.  The Arab Sudanese government is trying to destroy the native African Sudanese.\n\nEven when the West help them, there is corruption.  They will take the donated grains and sell it to the poor.  Somalia is basically a country run by gangs with big guns.  Warlords rules Somalia.  Each having its own rules and killing whomever they want.\n\nWith such instability and corrupted government, insurgencies start.  This combination will limit investments from companies and make the situation worse.  No food, no economy, but a lot of guns.  Millions are dying and their own people/government do not care.
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The answer to this question would fill a book and you certainly couldnt do it justice here.\n\nMaybe break the question down into sub questions like what effect did it have immediately during the conflict, what effect did it have on politics, religion, welfare, human rights, future wars etc.\n\nThat will give people a chance to give you good short answers which will then build up a picture.
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Sudan is a country and in sudan Genocide is going on!
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The resources of Africa have historically been exploited by Europeans and Americans, etc. The Africans themselves have been largely cut out of the deal. \n\nA handful of African leaders get rich, the rest of the population dies of malaria and dysentery.
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NO EASY ANSWERS - but useful hints instead, from a (former) world history teacher. \n\n1. Think of who the slave traders wanted - mainly young men who were useful as laborers. So what would happen if a region where most people were farmers lost a lot of its strong workers? Also, think of how the people were removed, and how people would logically react. They didn't go willingly, and their families weren't happy about it. \n\n2. The examples are simply a list, and it's not useful to just copy from an email. Besides, your teacher probably used specific examples, and mine might be different. You'll find most of the anti-colonial resistance taking place between 1890 and 1960, and some examples you can look up are the Asante revolt, the Igbo Women's War, the Bambatha Uprising, the Chilembwe Revolt, the Maji-Maji Rebellion, and the Chimurenga/Second Chimurenga. You should be able to Google these or look them up in a book, or ask your school librarian and get answers fairly quickly - ones that you can remember on the upcoming test because you learned them for homework!\n\n3. Salt and gold had their uses, and more importantly, they were found in different parts of West Africa, so the people with salt traded it for gold, and vice versa. Again, not a tough one to look up yourself, and worth the effort. Try any middle school textbook chapter on precolonial Africa, and you should get a map of the salt and gold trade. \n\n4. Which defeat of Germany? Probably WWI. I don't know if Germany was defeated so much by events as by situations. The alliance against Germany included France, Russia, England and eventually the United States, and the entry of the US into WWI was important. The German u-boat sinking of the liner Lusitania triggered American entry. \n\nThe Bolshevik Revolution in Russia also stirred up a stong enemy in the east. \n\nGermany and its allies were surrounded by hostile powers and unable to get many products needed for fighting a war, including food for the soldiers. So their supply problem was also a cause of their defeat. \n\n5. The time period matters here, and you will have to filter through my ideas to find the ones that fit your class. \n\n- Developing economies grew slowly for a variety of reasons, including:\n  - colonizers made them serve the colonial market, producing less profitable goods, and/or selling them so cheaply as not to make a profit, therefore the colonized peoples never had money to spend on improving their production\n  - many colonies had labor laws that allowed colonizers to all but enslave the locals, which meant that there was little reason to educate the workforce or build for the future\n  - developed countries made and enforced rules that kept developing countries from making certain products (for example, England - which had colonized India - outlawed the production of cloth in India, which meant Indians could grow cotton, but coud only buy cloth from England, which helped the English factories and economy)\n  - Developing countries mainly produce farm, mine and fishery products, and they have to buy industrial products to make a profit, but prices for farm, mine and fishery products declined in the late 20th century, so that people in developing countries had to spend more of their production on equipment from developed economies\n  - In recent decades, developed countries lent money at interest to developing countries, which then had to pay back the interest. Large loans encouraged corruption in the developing world, and as a result the developing countries didn't, well, develop much, and so they were less and less able to pay back their growing debts. Or, for that matter, to do anything else that required money.
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Long repressed feelings of hatred for the Tutsis by the Hutus. When the Belgians colonized the area, they bestowed preferential treatment on the Tutsi (generally lighter of skin, taller and originally from the Horn of Africa - so they were already invaders in the eyes of the Hutus. The Hutus - generally darker - Bantu speaking original inhabitants of that area took it upon themselves to wipe out the Tutsi and came damn near close -- please see Hotel Rwanda if you get the chance.
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The lists I have found make no mention of Malawi or Nyasaland casualties, though the one linked below shows 9,000 South African deaths. None of the lists I have found so far show names, only numbers. Sorry.
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Everyone please wake up! I am from SA and there are no wars\nor such stuff going on here! The only war that is going on here is the war against AIDS and poverty. So please get your facts correct before you try to answer something about another country.
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I was in Botswana for two weeks in 1992.  I really liked it a lot.  It is quite tragic how much warfare is tearing that continent apart.
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The biggest problem the United Nations has is the courage to enforce any of its resolutions or sanctions. The UN stood by and watched 1 million people killed in Rwanda and did absolutely nothing except a few UN soldiers raped and killed innocent people.
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Maybe this link will help.\nhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/WW2res.htm
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It was called Rhodesia while a colony.  And it was the British.\n\nIt's impact was, unfortunately, not as bad as things are now.
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Try this link:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa