Mr. Rights Blog

By Abdulrazaq O Hamzat Many years after Rwandan genocide of 1994 between Hutu and Tutsi which claimed over 1,000,000 lives, certain revelations were made as a result of critical analysis of the incident. It was revealed that, going by the media reports in 1994, the Rwandan genocide was often portrayed as a conflict based on ancient hatred between people who had been killing each other in such a manner for hundreds of years. However,those media reports were greatly misleading and proved incorrect after critical analysis. Hutu and Tutsi were not ethnic groups, but economic/political class divide. Investigation shows that, throughout history, the great lakes region had never encountered any ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi and there was no pattern of inter communal violence ever witnessed between Hutu and Tutsi and nothing approached or even suggested the level of violence of the 1994 genocide. In fact, in pre-colonial era, there was no any ethnic group by the name Hutu and Tuts