https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm by Kate Adamo, Ellie Konno, Maria Arrinda, and Ben Levine en-us 2019-02-05 18:31:16 UTC 2026-01-02 07:23:31 UTC hello@padlet.com ben_levine1 https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328246656 When Rwanda was a colony of Belgium, the colonizers gave the natives ID Tags based on their ethnicity (1916)]]> 2019-02-06 14:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328246656 ben_levine1 https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328249375 After exiling the Tutsi monarch, the Rwandan government was controlled by 2 Hutu radicals]]> 2019-02-06 14:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328249375 ben_levine1 https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328249753 Government-controlled radio stations urged Hutus to slaughter their Tutsi neighbors and friends]]> 2019-02-06 14:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328249753 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328250322 Neighbors killed neighbors, teachers killed students, students killed teachers. Soldiers shot pregnant women. ]]> 2019-02-06 14:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328250322 ben_levine1 https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328250920 About 800,000 Tutsis were killed in 100 days]]> 2019-02-06 14:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328250920 ben_levine1 https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328251126 Millions of Hutus and Tutsis fled to nearby countries (namely DRC/Zaire and Burgundy) and died in overcrowded refugee camps due to disease]]> 2019-02-06 14:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328251126 ben_levine1 https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328252412 The main political parties in Rwanda are divided between the  Hutus and Tutsis, which increased ethnic tension]]> 2019-02-06 14:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328252412 maria_arrinda https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328252558 Since their begging, even before falling under German control in the 1800s, the two groups lived separated in the country and they could't switch their group unless they were really wealthy, but this stopped when Belgium colonized them]]> 2019-02-06 14:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328252558 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328254904 Hutus went on rampages, hacking people to death. ]]> 2019-02-06 14:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328254904 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328255780 The Hutus saw the Tutsis as less the human, as "cockroaches".]]> 2019-02-06 14:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328255780 maria_arrinda https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328258696 Belgium preferred the Tutsi because they believed that group was from a superior race from the Hutu. This meant the Belgium giving the Tutsi better jobs and education]]> 2019-02-06 14:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328258696 ellie_konno https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328258934 Before the genocide happened, the Hutus were discriminating Tutsis just because they were different. ]]> 2019-02-06 14:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328258934 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328259872 The Belgium identified Tutsis by nose size, height, and eye type.]]> 2019-02-06 14:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328259872 ellie_konno https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328260059 Some of the Hutus hid the Tutsis so that they could help them. If the  Hutus got caught, they had to kill the Tutsis that they were hiding and then they would be killed.]]> 2019-02-06 14:29:35 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328260059 maria_arrinda https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328260807 After independence in 1964, the Hutu took over the government and blamed the Tutsi for all the crisis and issues the country faced ]]> 2019-02-06 14:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328260807 ellie_konno https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328261709 A day before the genocide happened, the leader of Rwanda and Burundi were shot and killed in an airplane. The Hutus were quick to blame that it was the fault of the Tutsis, and then began the genocide the next day. 

]]> 2019-02-06 14:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328261709 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328261956 Hutu Farmers and Tutsi Pastoralists were differed by the number of cattle they have.]]> 2019-02-06 14:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328261956 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328263984 The president was shot and the government was overthrown.]]> 2019-02-06 14:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328263984 ellie_konno https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328264211 In order to organize the Hutu killers, they promised Hutu people that they would have more land, and banana plantations. They were promised land that they did not get, in order to get more Hutus to kill. ]]> 2019-02-06 14:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328264211 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328265535 The world turned it's back on Rwanda and didn't do anything to help them. The Tutsis were alone in the fight.]]> 2019-02-06 14:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328265535 ellie_konno https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328265657 Some Tutsis died of starvation, because they had to go into hiding with no food or water. Some died of starvation while attempting to hide. ]]> 2019-02-06 14:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328265657 maria_arrinda https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328269305 2019-02-06 14:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328269305 maria_arrinda https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328270299 There is no denial by neither the Hutu nor the Tutsi]]> 2019-02-06 14:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328270299 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328270450 The U.S. President denied the Genocide was happening in the moment, he apologizes now. ]]> 2019-02-06 14:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328270450 gaspare_lipari https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328271859 2019-02-06 14:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328271859 ben_levine1 https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328318274 2019-02-06 15:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328318274 katherine_adamo https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328319970 2019-02-06 15:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328319970 ben_levine1 https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328322052 ID Tags given by Belgium were later used to distinguish who was a Hutu and was a Tutsi]]> 2019-02-06 15:58:47 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328322052 maria_arrinda https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328330252 At the start of the Civil War, 1990, the Hutu leader commanded that the Hutu should stop making business with the Hutu and that people couldn't marry someone from the opposite ethnic group, otherwise they would be considered a traitor. They also believed that the military should one be composed of Hutu people and that the Hutu couldn't pity the Tutsi anymore.]]> 2019-02-06 16:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328330252 maria_arrinda https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328339356 In some cases, the Hutu gather Tutsi people inside churches, school or hospitals and annihilated them by hand.
In other cases, the Hutu went door to door just to 🤬 them. They could do this because the government, controlled by the Hutu at that time, had the information of every person and their addresses, permitting the Hutu to know exactly where to go.]]> 2019-02-06 16:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/katherine_adamo/87wocw6144vm/wish/328339356