1. What percentage of the population do the Tutsis make up? The Hutus? Who owns the majority of the land?
making up approximately 15 percent of the population, the Tutsis have long held most of the land in Rwanda
2. How did the Belgians show favor toward the Tutsis?
The Belgians
openly favored the Tutsis and educational privileges and government jobs were reserved solely for the Tutsis
3. Why were identification cards later used for? How is this connected to the Holocaust?
Tutsis took advantage of their control of the army to override election results and seize political power.
4. When did Hutus gain political power?
Rwanda and Burundi as their colonial empire in central Africa began to crumble.
5. Write two facts about the country of Rwanda.
One of the things with a population of 8.4 million people and a land area the size of Maryland, was among the world’s most densely populated and poorest nations
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