How could the Rwandan genocide happen? - BBC Africa

In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists.
They were targeting members of the minority Tutsi community, as well as their political opponents.
But how did the genocide start, and what is it like in Rwanda now?
BBC Africa's Victoria Uwonkunda explains.
Produced by Leyla Najafli.
Edited by Elaine Okyere.
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[@waviih5276]

I thank god everyday because my family fled to Kenya when the war started my mom saw her best friend get beheaded her name was Lydia my grandmother got shot in the head and survived I tell my grandmother everyday how strong she is , she still has the bullet mark on the side of her head my whole family ..uncles , ants ,mom,grandmother came to Canada 1995 to Montreal ,queen elizabeth payed for their flight although 100 days after the war started my grandfather got beheaded I always think about him and I always tell people he was a good man I don’t know him physically but I know him mentally , me and my family are so lucky cause I always remember that if my family never had hope I wouldn’t be here right now I am now 15 I am born and raise in Toronto,Canada I speak English French swahili and kyrunrwanwda

[@elliejayes394]

WavyFnz wow your family is so strong i wish you the best

[@Fs-ko8uq]

Let’s meet! I would really want to hear more about your story. From Toronto :)

[@waviih5276]

Firdaus Shallo I’m only 15 so I’d probably would have to ask my mom

[@mugzie11]

WavyFnz Imagine fleeing a country and having to raise a kid but he ends up playing fortnite (issa joke :))) i play it too hehe) but fr 🥺 ur grandma is really tuff the chances of living to that is sooooo small i have a similar storyyy but none of my family members lived, nd all my uncles and even my grandpa died in war nd r family is supposedly cursed and everyone who is male and ends up joining any armed forces ends up dying nd it sucks cus i always wanted to be a cop or in the army :(

[@waviih5276]

Mugzie I was born in Canada and raised I didn’t flee but my family did and that was like 30 years ago

[@crAZNimal]

I'm Cambodian and i feel the pain, i was born on the killing fields during the Cambodian genocide . Quarter of our population slaughtered and died from malnutrition and hunger

[@elvenkind6072]

I'm sorry to hear, but glad you are still here. It's terrible what humans can turn into, if only truth and love are removed. God bless you and yours.

[@alliea2006]

I’m glad to hear that you survived but sry to hear that your family had to go through that at that time

[@claritashibo]

Oh my god. Genocides everywhere when we should love one another ❤

[@anatorres-ym8ke]

Ik it doesnt mean much but im Sorry my country commited genocide towards yours...Here in America they wont teach us about how we bombed cambodia and killed 100k people

[@crAZNimal]

@@anatorres-ym8ke they say during that secret campaign,the amount of bombs that were dropped was more than all the allied bombs dropped in ww2

[@Lelouch79]

I just watched Hotel Rwanda and It made me angry because shit like that is still happening today

[@davidk9382]

Hotel Rwanda is a little bit fake & gay. Lots of subtle propaganda that Holywood actors cannot understand. Sad it is what most people know about Rwanda. Lots of secrets in Rwanda. Rwandans know and will not forget what lead to this bs in the first place was lies. Hotel Rwanda is a good movie, but some people suspect a little foul play. I like that it depicted a Hutu trying to save Tutsis though, very tru pattern during the genocide. People are people, not Tutsi or Hutu.

[@spencerdickson9693]

I always wonder how you stop government sanctioned genocide in Africa.... short of overthrowing the government and re-implementing colonialism. You can't just keep a UN Peacekeepers indefinitely. You can just stay for 2 months and leave and expect it to stop. People call on the international community but what does that mean?

[@rutonde]

@@spencerdickson9693 In the case of Rwanda, it means quit arming a regime that’s already murdering people in their homes by the thousands. “There was no aspect of Rwandan life in which France did not intervene-from supplying weapons to training elite soldiers and youth militias to providing intelligence to providing financial support to devising military strategy to acting as international spin doctors to leading the Rwandan armed forces to manning roadblocks and asking for the notorious ID cards that revealed citizens’ ethnic origin. Almost no authority believes that the Rwandan army could have held off the rebels for three years without French support, and if the Habyarimana gang had been overthrown, *THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO GENOCIDE.* French politicians, French diplomats, and French soldiers blatantly lied about everything that was happening in Rwanda. George Orwell never had more faithful disciples in turning the truth completely on its head.” [G. Caplan, 2008]

[@Bazompora]

@@rutonde But if there was no *US-backed* rebellion to overthrow Habyarimana, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO WAR and NOT EVEN THE THREAT OF GENOCIDE in the first place!

[@kaykayigor8568]

@@Bazompora People were already dying before 1994 so I don't know what you mean by "NOT EVEN A THREAT OF GENOCIDE"

[@GratitudeGriot]

I traveled to Rwanda in 2016. I visited Kigali, Rwesero and Gisenyi. It's a beautiful country!! The pain is still palpable and prevalent. Prayers up for more open dialogue in the country about the horror that took place Spring '94 and how the seeds truly were planted for tribe vs tribe. Europeans in Africa have historically been poison; it would have been nice if this video touched on the influence Belguims in Rwanda as it relates to the genocide.

[@davidk9382]

The dialogue is VERY open. It is a myth that Tutsis and Hutus are not spoken of. They are spoken of and acknowledged through programs of increasing population representation within the government. It is taught at school, with an emphasis that they were linguistic tools that were used wrongly, not actual cultural differences. We speak of it, but not enough. Give us time, we are in the process of rolling out Rwanda 2.0

[@emilio2647]

Jewell Singletary France also played a part in the Rwandan civil war.

[@davidjoelsson4929]

stop generalize pls

[@asmrhooded]

Are you seriously trying to place causal genealogy of the Rwandan genocide in colonialism and not in the hands of the people who swung the machetes? Yes colonialism is wrong but it can’t be blamed on everything.

[@nutyyyy]

Did European swing the machetes?

[@Aritul]

Absolutely tragic. God rest the souls of the victims. I don't know how the country was able to recover.

[@margaritakleinman5701]

Read "Left to Tell" by Immaculee Ilibagiza, a Tutsi survivor of the genocide, in which most of her family was killed. Very powerful book. I got to hear her speak, met her and talked with her. Her story is very inspiring.

[@amenahmed7576]

plz can i get you this book

[@benedicta7490]

Imacculees book is inspiring. Everyone should read

[@margaritakleinman5701]

@@benedicta7490 I agree, everyone should read this inspiring book.

[@benedicta7490]

@@margaritakleinman5701 you know, I just finished reading the book yesterday. I have gotten ideas and clues, how I should write my story now. I can understand her written language so well, it would sound kind of , like how I would express my own story

[@margaritakleinman5701]

@@benedicta7490 Yes I know what you mean, I really like her writing style. It is very easy and enjoyable to read and understand. I just got her second book, "Led by Faith", I'm sure it's good too. Good luck on writing your story!

[@abc_cba]

Not even animals are so ruthless and harmful to the extent humans have become.

[@theafflictionvhs17]

I would beg to differ.

[@219SilverChoc]

@Vairol99s but are those out of survival or not knowing better?

[@219SilverChoc]

@Vairol99s probably, as its a way of putting them out of their misery, especially if they are young and wouldn't survive on themselves. Mind you, I'm not a parent lol and I don't think il be a good one atm.

[@real8551]

Yes they are just as ruthless. Many animals including lions kill the young in their pride that were fathered by another lion. Female deer , sheep, goats etc abandoned weak and sickly young all the time. Your argument is without merit.

[@abc_cba]

@@real8551 Tell me a single lion carried out a genocide like how Hitler carried out of Jews, gays, gypsies, Blacks ? Or how Hindus practice casteism and untouchability? Do animals follow that system ? Do animals carry out trafficking of children into sexual slavery like humans do ? Many girls in my city have been stoned to death for just speaking a word with an unknown man to a few who had acid thrown on their faces and burnt. Where do animals commit that ? Many female foetuses would be found in the dustbins in my city and women beaten to death just for giving birth to a female child here, where does that happen in animal kingdom ?

[@silverghost3063]

Its chilling knowing that who ever launched that missile is still out there. They're responsible for the death of thousands.

[@ruzimabonieck6908]

The genocide was planned long before the shooting, it just opened the door for it to happen

[@legendarypussydestroyer6943]

about 1 slaugtered every 10 - 15 seconds, continously for 100 days.

[@davidk9382]

With mostly machetes. Greatest horror this planet has seen. Why would this happen? Things dont happen without the global support, innactin is action. The world knew, but let it happen. Someone wanted Rwandans dead, but that's not happening.

[@woahmannchill]

0-0

[@Bazompora]

*Racist propaganda!* The killing went on *far beyond 100* days _(Gersony Report_ for the UN), but to make the RPF, backed by Uganda, (backed by the USA!) look like heroes, a _Birth of a Nation_ style myth that mixes in the _coupe-coupe_ stereotype has been *hyped* in media. It says a lot about YOU, if you *approve* of the message that _Angry black with knives are the greatest slaughterers_ without skepticism.

[@BillClinton228]

The UN has never stopped a genoc|de... and it never will.

[@MrPurge11]

@@BillClinton228 Cant really work out what the UN is for

[@tdf4142]

it's happening in Ethiopia now people are being arrested and in some places killed just because they are different groups.sad

[@tdf4142]

@First Name Last Name ok sure hate arguing with people with no statistics

[@omegatesfay7196]

To the people of Tigray. Minority group in Ethiopia

[@janet7janet751]

Tigray, since last year November and the world is ignoring us

[@daroodcabdulahi1574]

Have you forget what the tigrey regime did to the somali Community. What goes around comes around.

[@ViennA2891]

@trains and trams Yup! They still doin this with their forced 'multi culturalism' to w/ppl (their 'own') in Europe, etc too...

[@slowasturtle5704]

One of the sad moment in Africa.

[@shitstirrer]

Kigali has been turned into a clean and well ordered city when I visited, but vestiges of genocide could still be felt, such as detention camps, and people lacking their some body parts.

[@mostskillful6672]

Damn

[@Didmasela]

The 1994 Rwandan Genocide is the darkest chapter in contemporary African political history. The UN is absolutely useless as it does not serve the interest of Africa and other developing countries of South America and Asia. While studying International Relations at the University, I studied and did a research on ” Why the UN and the powerful states failed to prevent the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. An indepth study showed how useless and biased the UN is, when it comes to resolving crisis in Africa. In my paper, I also blamed African leaders for failing to quickly mobilise a rapid response army to be delpoyed in Rwanda, to act as a bufferzone between the Hutu militias and Tutsis&moderate Hutus.

[@editorrbr2107]

Kofi Annan, Ghanian leader of the UN, personally denied the request for a peacekeeping mandate. African leaders ignored it, until refugees spilled across their borders or it could be cynically used for their own aims, etc. The common theme here is that Rwanda’s problem was Rwandan society. An external entity not intervening in a racial civil war does not absolve the failures or responsibilities of the Rwandan people for their own atrocities

[@acquahebenezer2789]

Kofi Annan, became a UN Secretary general in 1997, how can he denied peacekeeping operations during 1994

[@omkalo4]

Your last sentence shows that you either was reading biased academics or biased journalistic documents, or you haven't understand what happened in Rwanda. I am from the country neighboring Rwanda, and I recommend people to read the book: *Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction* "Former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali declared to author Robin Philpot that “the Rwandan Genocide was 100 percent American responsiblity.” Yet a more official narrative would have it that horrible Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly one million Tutsis after the Rwandan presidential plane crashed in the heart of dark Africa on April 6, 1994. Where do these two contradictory narratives come from? Which is true? Robin Philpot’s vast and methodical research, extensive interviews, and close analysis of events, testimony in courts, and popular writings on the subject show not only that that official narrative is false, but that it was edified to cover up the causes of the tragedy and to protect the criminals responsible for it. What’s more, to make that story more believable, the storytellers have unfailingly reproduced the literary traditions, clichés, and metaphors that provided the underpinnings of slavery, the slave-trade, and colonialism. Nearly 20 years later, the facts about the Rwandan tragedy have been so distorted and the adjudicated facts ignored that Rwanda is now used everywhere to justify so-called humanitarian intervention throughout Africa (and the world). It has become a “useful imperial fiction,” and for that reason, this book seeks to find out what really happened there." ALSO, Judi Rever, *In Praise of Blood*

[@lelkaya7912]

Read, In Praise of Blood by Judi Rever. It's a must read to understand what happened in Rwanda

[@pepeinno9336]

The Rwandan genocide against the Tutsis, in a land where RPF, the strongest military at the time was not against them, in a counry whose dominant force had full Ugandan support, not counting in the Burundian army which was almost entirely tutsi. How did this genocide against a component which was not a security minority occur? Kagame refused any support. We need to ask ourselves why he took this decision that helped to expedite the killings.

[@anthonywest4173]

THIS STORY IS SO SAD.

[@alpn113]

I am tired of these fake journalist who just tell one story. Rwanda will not heal until the story is told for both sides

[@emilio2647]

@@alpn113 it seems like BBC news is hiding the truth.

[@2livenoob]

This answers why it happened, but it still doesn't answer the question of HOW. How is it possible for a human physically murder that many people?

[@doktordanomite9105]

Simply convince your soldiers you are not fighting people, thats why the “cockroach” rhetoric is so pronounced in the genocidal rhetoric.

[@HelmetOfHonor]

Propaganda is a huge tool on how and why they did it. Economic crashes also are a major factor. Someone has to take blame

[@alinecardoso9668]

I watched a movie about it, it was horrible, I couldn't stop crying, so much deaths, children, adolescents, grow-ups, babies, they were killing everybody.

[@koushikmaji7998]

Do you remember the name of the movie?

[@margaritakleinman5701]

@@koushikmaji7998 It was probably "Hotel Rwanda".

[@dronzerdanks7163]

@@margaritakleinman5701 thanks

[@margaritakleinman5701]

@@dronzerdanks7163 You're welcome. Hope you get to see that movie. It's excellent.

[@dronzerdanks7163]

@@margaritakleinman5701 yes I'm surely watching it

[@MirikaCOfficially]

Thank you for this information. I have watched movies on this, and it was very close to the facts stated in this video. It still makes me so sad. I just ...😢. It breaks my heart. I just wish I could reach back in time and be powerful enough to shout “STOP!” and people listen. ❤️from America.❤️

[@djinbachian]

Title of the movie?

[@MirikaCOfficially]

Moby Rwanda is the main movie, and then Black Earth Rising is another, however, Black Earth Rising isn’t as solely based on the genocide. Rwanda is the one to watch.

[@mirkowolf5897]

And what about this? vimeo.com/107867605 Hope you watch this!

[@BarrySmithviolin]

MirikaCOfficially I just watched the film Hotel Rwanda and was absolutely horrified, saddened and I lost even more respect for our administration. I’ve been reading online as much as I can to learn more from ALL sides how and why this occurred. A few good books of differing viewpoints from eBay and the library will arrive soon as well. I love America too! ❤️ But often I find myself embarrassed, ashamed and angered by of our country’s foreign policies....

[@mirkowolf5897]

@@BarrySmithviolin This was CIA operation engineered by Clinton. *A lot of lies by the US and UN after the mission was accomplished.* Read the article below by the Human Rights Watch (HRW). See RPF, US and UN involvement. Do not forget this documentary: vimeo.com/107867605 *April 30, 1994: RPF rejects UN offer to stop the killings.* www.hrw.org/reports/1999/rwanda/Geno15-8-03.htm *July 04, 1994: RPF to the world* *We have successfully stopped the genocide.* The rest of the world: Bravo!! Me: ???!!!

[@livesimplyandhumbly]

In a land where a man's words are absolutely meaningless so is his signature.

[@celeen7476]

Rip all rowanda martyrs ,I couldn't keep my tears while watching this documentary from morocco

[@benedicta7490]

What's the name of the documentary of morocco

[@greenbananas12378]

@@benedicta7490they r saying the come from Morocco

[@claritashibo]

​@@greenbananas12378😂😂😂😂😂

[@nyimasetousillahsillah8393]

lmao that’s why punctuation matters

[@Himeko-wv7fu]

I grew up in NW USA. Nobody taught me this in school. I'm 25 Afro American and just now learning about this :(

[@rutonde]

The best printed source for a fuller description is probably the book titled _“Death, Despair and Defiance”._ A discussion about it can be found at “Book Shore” on y-tube. The review was posted a year ago.

[@DeeplineStyle]

Thank you very much Victoria!!! Great video

[@mosesrugira9985]

its not about 800,000 people , its about million people!!

[@rutonde]

Her BBC bosses would probably fire her if she dared reveal that! There’s no freedom of expression within the BBC. So ironic.

[@mosesrugira9985]

@@rutonde now why are they lying yet we know truth?>?? God is watching

[@rutonde]

@@mosesrugira9985 Because they have decided to spread all kinds of lies about the genocide. That’s why the BBC made up that infamous video called “untold story” in October 2014. And instead of stopping there, they went ahead and produced another one called “black earth” in the same vein last September. It’s a denialist strategy meant to foment more genocide. They never want that region to live in peace and prosperity!

[@monster2slayer]

Estimates go from 500000 to 1100000, so 800000 is not a misrepresentation

[@emilio2647]

@@rutonde BBC is propaganda.

[@PowderedFace]

I heard Stromae's father died there

[@PowderedFace]

@ThatOneAsianBroChick I know, my dad and some other family members know french (Iony know a little) and they told me about it right away.

[@TheAjstyle65]

This kind of an event shakes the belief in humanity that how could a whole nation commit such an atrocity on such a large scale makes you question how could the conscience of all people could go foul at the same time.

[@placidh]

Indoctrination, ignorance, poverty, greed, manipulation all in one. Back then no one thought life could come back to normal again. We saw hell

[@ruzimabonieck6908]

They used to call Tutsi cockroaches to instill in the hutu hatred and to dehumanize tutsi

[@mostskillful6672]

The painful part is that it went on for days.

[@WilliamBrownGuitar]

It always starts with dehumanization. Human psychology is extremely malleable and can be bent to unimaginable depravity. All history shows this to be true. As Alexandre Solzhenitsyn said, "The line between good and evil runs through every human heart". We Christians need no further proof of the reality of true evil. We must be humble always and never allow anyone to influence us to have harmful thoughts toward innocent people.

[@Asidders]

This was a great summary.

[@rizahugos6025]

19 years of existence and I heard about Rwanda Genocide just now. All along I thought the Holocaust was the only inhumane event that ever happened in this world but here is another event that leveled what happened to the Holocaust. Wars, conflicts and crisis pushed me more to become a doctor and join a humanitarian organization soon to help people who need help just like these people

[@regaininglife9084]

Look up what the Soviets did. They did far worse than the holocaust but since they won the war, they write the history. They raped and murdered 10s of thousands of women and children. They also starved millions of people and so much more. They lie a lot in history about who the bad guys really are. There have actually been dozens of genocides in history and currently some going on right now but it is ignored. Do some research and you will find out.

[@cameronvalencia6023]

Very clear video on the topic. I don't understand why names Tutsi and Hulu was so clear for the majority of ppl to run rampant with orders of killings and slaughtering Tutsi's.

[@balayethossainjoy1345]

Genocide is most horrible thing forever 🇧🇩🇿🇦

[@deadchannel9105]

Respectfully, I love her voice

[@dibaygautam2076]

That’s why I love animals more then humans

[@Apollo-gd4qp]

This whole video was about animals lol

[@princetigerbeatz9316]

@@Apollo-gd4qp Facts

[@hulkhogan5605]

The French colonialists , as did did the British, pursued a policy of “divide and rule”,that created deep fissures and antipathy between tribes and ethnicities that had coexisted side by side for centuries or more . While winding down their colonial enterprise , under force of circumstances , they contrived to leave behind a set up , manned by their ‘dependable’, local collaborators , who would continue to watch over the ‘interests’ of their erstwhile masters . However the toxic ,divisive , legacies left behind by the colonialists remained in place and even morphed into multiple expressions of mutual mistrust and hatred .The rapid accretion of real or perceived grievances was bound to act as a detonator for a gruesome and bloody carnage that the Rwandan genocide is . In this tragic backdrop, the role of the French state/government remains highly suspect and blameworthy . As former colonialists they were morally bound to play their part in defusing tensions, which they themselves had created . With a large diplomatic mission and a sizeable military presence in the wider region , it is inconceivable that they did not have ,even an inkling , of the trouble as it was brewing up . That they gave scarce attention to that ominous possibility and even failed to intervene when the killings were going on is a bruising indictment of their role in this most sordid episode of history .

[@TagusMan]

Everything you said is probably true. But what do Africans want from Europeans? They want the Europeans to stop interfering in African affairs but then blame Europeams for not intervening when inter-African conflicts arise, which of course, are clearly the fault of Europeans. Africans are never truely responsible for their own actions because of colonial trauma. So now what?

[@bhavya5692]

As a Indian I can't agree more because of the British , India was divided into so many parts ,the hatered they started between the Hindu and Muslim community still has left it's impact and took soo many lives because of internal conflicts. The atrocities committed within after independence in Indian due to religious beliefs was sponsored by the British, although indirectly. They have a big hand into it.

[@misss6596]

Facts! They caused all this

[@yellow01umrella]

@@bhavya5692 You should thank Churchill

[@rnw2739]

@@misss6596 Bollocks!! Your pathetic attempt to pretend anyone other than Rwandans did this is laughable. Carry on burying your head in the sand and blaming white people when there were NONE involved. I'd rather kill myself than go through life blaming others for all my mistakes but you carry on.

[@samwarmate9291]

The genocide tells me that Africa is not united,never was and never will be.all of Africa fled or chose to ignore the mass slaughter except the Nigerians and Senegalese troops who remained on the ground.and yet Africans complain that the west did nothing,when they did nothing themselves.it tells me that Africa is very unstable and genocides can break out at any time.such is the mindset on our continent.the tribalism,coupled with corruption on an eye popping scale,nepotism,neglect,inefficiency,rotten governance,impunity and lack of vision will ensure that true peace,prosperity,stability and good government will be elusive.my own nation of Nigeria suffered an horrific,cruel,barbaric civil war just 7 years after independence in which so many died,the marjority from the Igbo tribe.therecwas even a mass slaughter of most of the men in Asaba in delta state.to this day every delta Igbo family there lost all the male members at the hands of the Nigerian army.is that not a genocide in itself.so what is the difference between the Hutu army in Rwanda and the Nigerian army? In my view they are both the same.both murdered their own people.The rest of Africa just looked the other way,but always point an accusatory finger at the world for doing nothing,how ironic...in Kenya people there always vote along tribal lines,not according to a manifesto,it is depressing...Botswana seems to be the only sane country with no history of coups or dictatorship or tribalism,just a continuous history of good governance,smooth transfer of power and fighting corruption.may God shine his eye on Botswana forevermore and reward them for good governance.as for the rest of my continent,I just don't know but I am pessimistic.

[@jazza7070]

God save Rwanda 🇷🇼

[@s.tagerius2514]

God doesn't exist.

[@aimefidele12]

He is already saved us.....check Rwanda today

[@Josee2030]

@@s.tagerius2514 It's your right to deny the existence of God but remember God will never deny being your loving father!

[@s.tagerius2514]

@@Josee2030 I already have a father, thanks. Anyway, if God is so loving, then why does he allow people to suffer in Hell for eternity?

[@s.tagerius2514]

@@Josee2030 You're right, he won't deny it because somebody who doesn't exist can't deny anything.

[@m.didien1677]

The Conflict Theory states unequal power distribution may probably leads to class conflict

[@TheLaly37]

Well then USA is a ticking time bomb?

[@timbuktu777]

@@TheLaly37 Occupy Wall Street > Black Lives Matter > The next big thing. Trust.

[@doktordanomite9105]

@@TheLaly37every american knows this we just blame it on different people.

[@sammbabazi2849]

I am from Uganda, a country right next to Rwanda. It's not only European countries that abandon us, even religious leaders betrayed us as tens of thousands were butchered in churches where they had fled to for shelter.

[@editorrbr2107]

The Catholic Church’s role in this monstrosity still hasn’t been fully reckoned with.

[@doktordanomite9105]

Almost like they only care about colonialism, influencing politics and profit.

[@mostskillful6672]

That will remind you that the churches are handled by same humans being . Afraid of there own life

[@uwayezuoctave6590]

How can 18 soldiers lead to denial of prevention of massacre of above million peoples

[@Jaxv3r]

@@hcyeh4883 dead meme like the peeps but very cool

[@Elghast]

Uwayezu Octave would African countries ever intervene to help the west? Would you go into England and risk your life if there was a bloody civil war there? The people doing the Rwandan genocide weren't an army. They were a guerrilla group fighting and then hiding. The British tried this style of rural combat during the uprise in Rhodesia and it only resulted in bloodier reprisals against the civilians. So no. Intervening in Rwanda would have been stupid and extremely dangerous. Somebody fuelled this conflict and was expecting western powers to intervene in order to weaken them.

[@SperglordMcFeels]

...and how is the United States responsible for foreigners on the other side of the world? Are they the world's police or are they not?

[@badpuddytatt]

@@SperglordMcFeels they like to fucken act like it

[@buturlion5384]

Too sad that many people died.

[@Mamamangolina]

Wow thanks for the clarity 🙏🏾

[@dumilemzimela6461]

I love how conveniently BBC left out the French and Belgian colonial influence that fueled all of this ... terrible lack of journalism!

[@smacdsmaccers]

kinda weird when natives have their internal issues, they criticize foreign intervention, then criticize them too if they dont intervene

[@astonrude1013]

Not your business

[@astonrude1013]

@William Burroughs shut up

[@astonrude1013]

@William Burroughs you look like a Nazi

[@astonrude1013]

@Slavic Melody I wonder if he has a sister who is hot

[@qcthesxientist]

@William Burroughs The french military moved to stop rpf forces from advancing through rwanda when tensions began to boil over to protect their foreign interests with politicians and stuff. This gave the rwandan military an opurtunity to carry out the genocide and organised violence without threat of intervention from the rpf which was a main reason why the killing speed was so high. It was only when the rpf took control that the killings of civilians slowed. Now france didn't plan to make things worse but they did so yeah thats the argument.

[@xondeez757]

You can’t blame UN for a country slaughtering themselves. UN is there to help as much as possible but ultimate blame is the people’s own choices

[@swendellswen7796]

So sad I have a presentation on this. Thanks

[@allanuwizera5582]

proud of rwanda

[@dogymal7260]

Which country supplied huge number of weapons back then?

[@azchanna]

Belgium supplied the Hutus with the machetes

[@beckydahm]

I remember wen i was watching sometimes n April and realized that the US was focused on kurt cobain killing himself m while that on him this was happening i was horrified

[@LocalBusinessListYeg]

Killings were happening even earlier, 1993. I am not so sure the reason is just this. I am horrified that this can go on. Where was the help? I hope and pray for equality among all men and women and greed to take a back seat finally.

[@chacha-255]

great explanation

[@leliyum7038]

BBC ignored belgian branding of hutu and tutsi by id card.

[@rabbadoodles4522]

George Washington said, "Avoid foreign wars." In other words, if a country that is an alley of the US or not that is at war you should not join in the war.

[@RiRi-df9jt]

what is ur point?

[@rabbadoodles4522]

@@RiRi-df9jt why you should never get in on other wars

[@lovis8424]

@@rabbadoodles4522 what does that have to do with the video ?

[@ih9286]

Well this is ironic considering what’s happening in Palestine

[@viralencore85]

Beyond sad.

[@Noone-rt6pw]

It's good the U.S. minded it's business or the media would be blaming The Great USA for that! Anyone ever notice such correlations over time?

[@gsims8208]

Were the Hutue's influenced by the European Colonizers? Could it be these two tribs were able to live peacefully until being influenced by the European Colonizers against the Tutsi's? Where did they get their modern weapons from, they didn't have that kind of manufacturing or did they, to make their killing machines? 🤔 who provided weapons that gave them the capability to shoot down a plan?

[@briandejesustofa3708]

Lot of Rwandese were killed in the Refugee camps by the same people who cry genocide today in the then Zaire but no one speaks about that.

[@Biobele]

Who handed out the weapons the country didn't have any gun factories where did the weapons come from? The colonisers were responsible for the incitement and also non intervention. In fact that plane might have been shot down by them the colonisers.

[@arnoshroif4743]

Yes the usual mantra, let's blame the white people for every shit problem you have. Fucking stupid retards.

[@Ricanae205]

Hes got a solid point though isn't it a coincidence that every conflict ever existed even in the most isolated of places involved colonialisers? They try and influence the world in so much lies to the point that all that are effected suffers from knowing the real truth, instead they're told otherwise instead.

[@Biobele]

@@arnoshroif4743 answer my questions then who downed the plane till today "no-one knows" but guess what Google "OPERATION CRIMSON MIST"

[@buddhaalex1347]

Awkward Silence yeah France supplied them

[@whitemagus2000]

Machetes are low tech and easy to get a hold of.

[@shaymicah4194]

You're leaving out some important information. The Tutsi was picked by the Belgians to rule over their brother the Hutus. When the Belgians left the land they gave the power to the Hutu. Obviously this gave the chance for revenge on the Tutsi more prevalent. The spark was the assassination, but the build to that spark was anger toward the tutsi and the Belgians creating that friction

[@Crysq4]

waw i had no idea about this genocide ...so many people dead rly sad ...

[@PatriciaAQ]

Never again

[@PatriciaAQ]

Never again is my wish that a genocide of such scale never happens again but unfortunately our brothers and sisters keep on being slaughtered from Drc to Sudan, so again it is a wish that I hope comes to pass

[@nihimbazwepaterne4145]

EVERYONE KNOWS WHO SHOT THE PLANE DOWN ITS NOT MYSTERY SISTER

[@instagramlive9247]

NIHIMBAZWE paterne who shot it brother

[@davidk9382]

@@instagramlive9247 France lol.

[@mehdirealmz8217]

david K source?

[@BadFurious]

@@davidk9382 Source?

[@jacobklein8156]

Because the Tutsis were out of power and at the mercy of the state. The only defense against genocide is a strong conventional and nuclear capability.

[@capchoc3592]

All the world powers just sat there watched

[@Charles-hy6gp]

Because World powers supported this: Did you know about CFA French? Mobutu was Just a pawn from Belgium and US Empire

[@MrKillerfreak1]

why didn't africa help us muslims in eastern europe kek lefty logic

[@davidjoelsson4929]

@@MrKillerfreak1 what muslims in eastern europe

[@MrKillerfreak1]

@@davidjoelsson4929 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Muslims_during_the_Ottoman_contraction

[@chillininthesunshine5447]

This didn't go back far enough historically. For instance the European pseudo scientific origin of the 'ethnic i.d cards'.

[@stand4justice4867]

@Nunix pretty sure it's the disgusting colonial practices. Lay destruction wherever they go as long as they fill their dirty pockets.

[@astonrude1013]

@Nunix you're a busy devil I see, you're all over this comment section

[@astonrude1013]

@Nunix I'm relaxed, it's like that paper bag thing ya'll did over here. Divide and conquer but it backfired.

[@astonrude1013]

@Nunix bravo nice deflection, I bet you're a wizard at tennis

[@chillininthesunshine5447]

@Slavic Melody If you don't know Rwandan colonial history, then don't mention me with insults. My comment has got nothing to do with contemporary forms of identification. Rather, it pertains to a symbolic form of sub-racial segregation that the Tusi had to wear, and show at check points; akin to the 'Jude' star of David symbol Ashkenazim Jews had to wear at all times during WW ii.

[@alfredol8741]

Everything was well explained until the last part

[@juniorthomson9890]

I fear Zambia 🇿🇲 might face this similar situation coz there is more like cold war

[@RudieObias]

From the good ol' colonial playbook: Why fight against and conquer your oppressors when you can fight and divide yourselves?

[@albanmahoudeau1779]

IN THE END; Let's start with the UN.

[@risingsun1156]

Neither France nor Belgium take part in this events according to BBC, good job.

[@davidyates1078]

I hope we here in the U.S. Can learn from this…we shouldn’t say “It can’t happen here”

[@cyubahirobillelsie4764]

Lets make it ckear that there is no such thing as the Rwandan Genocide, its the Genocide against the Tutsi in the 1994.

[@ndacyayisengarwisegenyaeri396]

Thanks

[@abdouruboneka4775]

How could the hutus overthrow Tutsis in 1959 when Rwanda was still under colonial rule? If there was any body to overthow it could have been the Belgian colonialists coz they controlled the state apparatus. The colonial devils unleashed hutus on fellow Rwandans then and in 1994 hoping to exterminate them. But here we are; Indistructable under any circumstances.

[@rutonde]

Massacres were launched for the first time in 1959 but the ideological preparation had started a few years earlier. It led among other things to the colonial missionaries writing up and printing out the “Hutu Manifesto”. Then they had it signed on the dotted line by several of their Hutu employees in 1957. After that, the period of actual killings was opened up with the murder of King Mutara III on 7/25/59. His successor Kigeli V (here filmed in 1961 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJyrgYl5pax_rM0 ) was ‘lucky’ that they didn’t kill him, but only deported him and banished him from ever again setting foot on Rwandan soil starting the following year. This is how it went: 7/25/59: Belgian colonizers assassinate the king of Rwanda, Mutara III, by injecting him with poison. 11/1/59: A party called “Parmehutu”, together with its colonial sponsors, launch a campaign of mass murder against the Tutsi population. This is supposed to ‘punish’ Tutsi activists who had been first to demand Rwanda’s independence from Belgium. But to obtain cooperation from many Hutus, the authorities also teach the latter that the Tutsi population is alien to Rwanda and has no right to live there. 6/25/60: The Belgian colonizers complete their illegal local elections, under conditions opposed by BOTH the United Nations and the new king Kigeli V. The same month, the king solicits permission from Rwanda’s Belgian Governor to travel to the Congo to attend that country’s independence ceremonies. The Governor grants him permission to do so. The king knows the UN Secretary General will also be in attendance at the ceremonies, so his main goal is to meet with him to discuss the massacres being committed in Rwanda at this time, as well as the elections that have just been held illegally. 7/1/60: The Belgian colonizers, treacherous as ever, take advantage of the king’s absence during his trip to the Congo to make their move against him: They suddenly proclaim via radio broadcast that he is from now on forbidden from ever returning to Rwanda. The king is stunned to learn about it on the radio like any other member of the public. 12/21/60: The UN adopts Resolution 1580 which orders the Belgian colonizers to let the king back to his country. It also demands that they allow Rwandan refugees, who had fled the massacres, to return to Rwanda before holding any more elections. Belgian colonizers defy the UN and refuse to allow the return of both the king and the refugees. On the contrary, they expel even more Tutsi people. 1/28/61: The Belgian colonizers harden further their standoff with the UN and reinforce their coup by formally overthrowing the king. They replace him with a sub-chief called Mbonyumutwa, whom they proclaim "President of the Republic". 1/28/61: A UN commission arrives the same day in Rwanda, and asks the Belgian government to come back to reason and allow the king’s return to the country. The Belgian government, through its minister of foreign and colonial affairs (named Spaak) rejects the request. Still the king keeps up his efforts to obtain permission to go back to Rwanda. 9/24/61: The Belgian colonizers persist in their refusal, while also planning for another illegal election the next day. They do this despite the fact that the election is prohibited by Resolution 1580, unless the refugees and the king are first allowed back into the country. Thus, in his effort to break the deadlock, the king decides to return to Rwanda secretly at night. 9/25/61: Just before 1 a.m., the Belgian colonizers learn of the king's return from their spies. They immediately mobilize at night, looking everywhere to find and expel him. They finally find him in the early hours of the morning, and immediately embark him on a military plane for Bujumbura where the Belgian Governor General resides. The latter hands over the king to the British consul who embarks him again, before 6 a.m., for Dar es-Salaam. Present-day Tanzania is still an English colony at this time. Throughout this odyssey, the king relentlessly asks for permission to address a message of appeasement to the population, which is deeply troubled by the systematic killings being carried out throughout the country. But the Belgian colonizers refuse because they want the massacres to continue. They even confiscate the text of his speech from him. On the same day, the Belgian colonizers are finally able to hold their illegal election, while making sure that the public is not even aware that the king was actually in Rwanda this very morning! They know this fact bears great symbolic significance to the public and could in fact influence the election if the word gets out. The public has been told falsely that the king has abandoned the country and should therefore be removed. 10/26/61: The Belgian colonizers install the “Parmehutu” into power, with an individual named Gregoire Kayibanda as president. The era of genocide in Rwanda is thus launched. Belgian authorities will continue to nurture it over the decades to its 1994 culmination.

[@rnw2739]

Utterly untrue although I'll pretend it was, just for now. If that absurd summation of yours was true, that would only denote that Rwandans had the mental capacity of insects if they could gleefully massacre and slaughter their neighbours because someone suggested it.

[@avalimpa]

Why did Rwandans need ID cards? This is a European behavior similar to South African passes, Miami Beach ID, race on applications forms in the USA. It is part of systemic discrimination. Prior to Belgian occupation the two groups coexisted without all the hatred.

[@feanorfeuergeist]

i just dont understand the focus on UN forces , you were killing each other and noone else was at fault than yourself , it wasnt even a military conflict but just your whole population willingly becoming murderers of friends and family because someone said it on the radio.

[@hulkhogan5605]

The poor get killed like flies(no reminders , no days of remembrance , no museums for them)and become just statistics ; while the rich and “powerful”thrust their tragedies down your throats and make sure that there are no memory lapses on your part , by constantly drilling every grim detail into your wretched consciousness , even when all that may have happened is lost in a haze of a little-remembered past .

[@orangeninja912]

Hogan please provide specific context in relation to this video. Thx mate

[@thelittleredhairedgirlfrom6527]

Hey jackass, genocide is bad.

[@stephendove7447]

So sad

[@InternetUser-h4b]

What exactly caused the Hutu to turn against the Tutsi’s? Out of all the videos and articles I’ve read not one has answered this question. I know they mention Europeans but exactly what happened? It’s so frustrating that there’s not a detailed account of what happened. Were the Hutu’s treated badly by the ruling Tutsi majority which caused them to revolt?

[@shaymicah4194]

Here's a quick breakdown. So the Belgians chose the Tutsi to help them Rule over their brothers, the Hutu. For 30 years the Tutsi carried out forced labor and punishment for the Belgian Colonizers. The Tutsi notables, who had come to believe in the superiority the Belgians attributed to them, became tools of the colonial administration. This created growing hatred among the Hutus. Then after the 30 years, when the Belgians left, they handed over power to the Hutu. Almost like they wanted to see them kill each other.

[@alphagamer2166]

So, it was a game of power between France and African nationalists.

[@fubub3595]

When u are professional journalists, please tell the true story...we all know who shoot that plane down.....

[@fubub3595]

@TheSushiraw who profits the crime ? The one in power, u are right . That the man who sponsored this video, I am not rwandese but if u have a functional brain u will understand

[@ODINAKACHUKWUVITUS]

Who shot down the plane? Who has a clear clue please?

[@Pastelleraisthebestytchannel]

Can someone explain to me what the UN is?

[@ckn100]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations

[@stand4justice4867]

A useless entity.

[@Pastelleraisthebestytchannel]

@@ckn100 HOOO ok

[@Pastelleraisthebestytchannel]

@@stand4justice4867 hMmMm

[@LogicPak]

Utter Nonsense

[@MsDefweed]

Pray this never happens again. 🙏🏽

[@comecorrect1]

It won't to Rwanda again....ever. I keep these beautiful people in my thoughts and heart always.

[@mattysee24]

What do you mean how was it allowed to happen? Why should the UN or the USA be responsible?

[@jvictortorreblanca]

If the problem is there are 2 words that group people, just get rid of those 2 words. No more Hutus and no more Tutsis. Just people. Period.

[@c.mussoniii9257]

Bullishiiii....the problem of Rwandans is not tribal issue...is power. The international community won’t to intervene because were involved in the conflict.

[@FundayvloGG]

So we were basically all one till the genocide happened

[@isazisempi2248]

Whether or not European people were involved enough in this genocide isn't important. The real sad thing here is that African people divided themselves and caused great misery for their fellow man. I understand the increasing rise of atheism in rwanada. Instead of believing in God they should believe in the betterment of lives for their kids and their fellow Africans who already suffered enough under colonization.

[@reemsaif3105]

This isnt how the rawnada genocide happened. Sad that you are not mentioning everything.

[@BongiNgxekisa]

What was UN doing there if so many people died or they were only there for minerals as is always the case. These Western army bases must all be closed like it is happening in Mali and Burkina Faso

[@chrisppx]

Another country left in shambles by Europe

[@m-c-g8841]

What do you mean how it could happen. How is the Palestine one happening now ?

[@TrooReligion]

Population control yt people did that

[@robertkucera4865]

And no mention of coloniser influence???

[@user-kp2yk3lz2z]

Exactly I found it very interesting!!! It’s such a big part of the resentment between the 2 tribes yet not mentioned...weird.

[@Crashed131963]

@@user-kp2yk3lz2z Europe left 35 years before this , you can't blame everything on them forever.

[@user-kp2yk3lz2z]

@@Crashed131963 oh shut up. Europeans of today will do everything in their power to defend the atrocities of their ancestors yet in the same breath say “we didn’t do anything” Everything wrong with the world is because of Europe and its allies. You say 35 years ago as if it wasn’t yesterday and those people are not alive. Europe has blood on its hands and its success it’s only from the destruction of others. Let’s talk about how Europe never left colonialism instead we have rampant neocolonialism that replaced it. Let’s talk about how Europe employs NATO to carry out war crimes for oil and in favor of its ally America. You don’t need to look far look at Libya. Europeans and America came in the name of democracy to a thriving country that was about to catapult africa as a United continent with one currency,but no that would have affected France because of neocolonialism-its former colonies are forced to use French currency. So this means it’s economy would suffer and so would all of Europe’s. They left Libya after “liberating” it in a state of total chaos with it being a hell hole slave capital. Let’s look at the Palestinians being murdered and the conflict in Israel-Palestine. IT WAS ALL BECAUSE OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES LIKE BRITAIN WHO DECIDED TO GIVE THE JEWS LAND IN ORDER TO GET RID OF THEM FROM EUROPE. AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ARABS. And until today there is suffering. So John I urge you to use that brain of yours and realize time has nothing to do with it,Britain did this decades ago,but it’s consequences are very much in the present and severe.

[@davidjoelsson4929]

@@user-kp2yk3lz2z f*ck you

[@starwyn7]

Anyone know how to reference this in Harvard style?

[@ngkeam9491]

????

[@starwyn7]

@Yizzy Roger I was writing an essay for uni and wasn’t sure how to reference a KZbin video

[@starwyn7]

@@ngkeam9491 I was writing an essay for uni and wasn’t sure how to reference a KZbin video. Doesn’t matter now lol it was a year ago

[@ngkeam9491]

@@starwyn7 -haha, a full graudate! would have learned the skill by now.

[@starwyn7]

@@ngkeam9491 yep, I’d never had to reference KZbin before. Not quite a graduate yet. 6 months to go 🙂

[@savetheanimalsss5529]

Hutu didn’t start the war and neither did the rpf.

[@ngkeam9491]

in brief, all these conflicts/wars resulted from human jealousy and greed, how could one minority control the Gov and its majority of the population, its bound to feel discontent, anger and hatred between these two ethnics, on top of that, fueled by the former colonialists and expansionists, hence the civil wars/genocides are sparked off in this unfortunate event!! human greeds and jealousy are reprehensible in this case!

[@miyubail]

European's fault to cause such a hatred between the two tribes.

[@eriyairaguha3503]

First of all thanks to the BBC reporter, to my viewing point I want to make it clear that this was a political war not even civil war and then what would you expect the victors (RPA/RPF)to report or to write down, they defended them selves as an excuse to wipe them selves off the war crimes. Have you ever thought of doing the 100 hundred days where were the RPA or the Tutsi rebels. It’s had to understand if you just report one side then I don’t know if there’s one you have ever wanted to know the other side discrimer. Being born in DRCongo in 95 after years I had of rwanda genocide and I did my research it’s not all that the war was to be called genocide because this was mulnupreted as an excuse to cupture power with out an Quotion

[@Magicalseagull]

She work for British broadcasting corporation ( the biggest looters of the world). So she totally ignored the Belgium plan. Belgium created this separation way before so they can steal Africa wealth

[@Kai-jn7pn]

Why all the negative videos

[@real8551]

It’s call history.

[@nealamesbury7953]

No one cared to jam the radio air waves- u.n, western countries,chose not to do what they could.

[@fadhlialamsyah4833]

Thanks to Muslim for save me on mosque

[@alnoorbidi6047]

"the meaning of death" Who shot down the ✈

[@chanceby7354]

Exactly my point

[@rutonde]

Interview with the US ambassador to Rwanda on 10/5/03: "I held a meeting at my residence [on 4/7/94, the day after the plane crash] with whatever representatives the Rwandan government could come up with. Three Rwandans showed up. I presented an offer which, by this time, by phone we had gotten cleared [with the US government] -- that the United States was prepared to *BRING IN A TEAM TO HELP INVESTIGATE THE CAUSE* of the president's plane being shot down. What we needed was a clear request from the authorities, and the answer to that was, "We don't have means at hand to make that request." I said, "Well, you take a piece of paper and pencil and write it out right here if you want." But clearly they were not prepared to request United States assistance."

[@peebee2212]

The UN and Belgium had forces within the country. Which of the parties (Rawanda, UN, Belgium, France, CIA) has the capacity and the equipments to shoot down an airplane? Just wondering..........