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>European colonial forces (first Germans, then Belgians) imposed artificial divisions on Rwanda, where Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa were originally more socioeconomic classes than "races."
>The Belgians formalized these divisions by introducing identity cards in the 1930s, classifying people as Hutu or Tutsi.
>They spread Hamitic pseudoscience, portraying Tutsis as a superior "Hamitic race" closer to Europeans, while Hutus were considered inferior.
>Belgians gave Tutsis preferential access to education and power, deepening resentment.
>After WWII and independence movements, Belgians shifted support to Hutus, fueling revenge politics.
This manipulation of identity, combined with postcolonial instability, set the stage for the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The genocide was rooted in colonial divide-and-rule policies, not an inherent African conflict.
And don't forget that colonial racial myths and division were actively taught, legitimized, and preached by the clergy (especially Catholic and Protestant missions), which gave them immense authority among the population. It’s a chilling example of how European theology and pseudoscience were weaponized to justify mass killing.
So no, the Rwandan genocide was an entirely a European invention, not an African one. One could call it the result of bad management.