Given that the intro overshadowed the video to the point 90% of comments were talking about it, I took it out CORRECTIONS N SHIZZ - Pronunciation is as usual; flawed - Just about every symbol in this video is made up, not real symbols - 3:04 It's Ruanda-Urundi, not Ruanda-Burundi - 6:47 Rwandan PATRIOTIC Front, not the Rwandan Political Front
+Will Simmons Never happened. NATO bombed the Serbian army because they wanted to cause yet another genocide, this time in Kosovo. Serb nazis are still butthurt about it. :-)
Fida Md-Saini you do realize those guys want to help right? They are forced to follow bad orders. Don't hate them hate the political. leaders above them.
Asmoh أسموح every former Belgian colony is shit, with the exception of Rwanda, which basically hit rock bottom before improving and is now buttfucking one of Belgium’s other colonies, the Congo
InfernoSlayer That's because instead of promoting retribution towards the Hutus, Kagame promoted reconciliation between the people. When a country is stable, it will develop fast.
James Tang Posibbly, they do have some resemblance, he is a semi authoritative person, which Lee Kuan Yew is, but both are competent semi dictatorships who try to keep the government clean and help to encourage economic growth. Kagame is trying to make progress but it's too early to make judgments on his administration.
James Tang Yes but we'll need to see how it turns out many years later, trust me, many new political leaders seem nice at first but it's too early to predict what will happen in the future. Kagame has done an immensely great job for the past almost 2 decades for Rwanda, I'll give him that. It's not easy to keep the country from tearing each other apart after what just happened, let alone helping perpetrators and survivors to effectively reconcile. Yet he still hasn't revert some policies on cracking down on his political opponents. Robert Mugabe was once also a promising politician too, he promoted reconciliation between blacks and whites in Zimbabwe after their independence but as the years went by he became an ignorant, senile old man who violently confiscated white farmer's lands and running his country's economy to the ground. He refused to step down until forced to do so by his former allies who paint themselves as liberators but are also corrupt and power hungry politicians themselves. I just hope Paul Kagame could keep up the good work, it's never easy to run a country especially a war torn one like Rwanda, maybe he would become one of the best African presidents we ever know, still hard to tell though.
James Tang atleast east africa was doing fine under the germans.......just ignore that one rebellion where the natives thought that water made them bulletproofed just because some idiot said so.
Sad part is that a similar genocide could erupt at almost any time in Burundi. The good news is Rwanda has healed remarkably since the genocide and is actually developing fairly well. But just a country away the same ethnic groups are at each other's throat and on the verge of genocide.
@@jacaredosvudu1638 There were two; one in 1972 (probably the one you mean), with about 100-150,000 Hutu killed, and one in 1993, in which 116,000 Tutsi were killed.
Crazy how far Rwanda has come. Through everything. Now they are one of the fastest growing nations on Earth. They have the most representation and political freedom for women in office of any nation on earth, more than even Denmark and Norway. Now Kigali is the cleanest city in Africa, and the nation is growing fast. Rwanda still has a long way to go, but they are well on their way. Kagame promised it would be a lower middle economy by 2020. Never stop Rwanda. Show the world you weren't willing to just lay down, rot, and die. Love to Rwanda, from the US
Broheim Rwanda is still an authoritarian dictatorship under kagame, the country has thousands of political prisoners imprisoned on flimsy charges, even the international community that was so sympathetic to Kagame after the genocide is calling him out for this repression. The parliament which has such a high proportion of women is basically a rubber stamp. And even though the economy is doing well much of the post-genocide growth is just from the repatriation of Tutsi refugees and the use of illegally seized Congolese diamond mines to bolster state income.
Rwanda does well because it’s a democracy with rule of law. It’s one of the few countries where ordinary people can speak to the president in person and get a direct answer to their concerns.
This genocide really makes me feel uneasy. Babies skulls crushed on church walls. Million dying in less than 4 month. 250k women raped, tortured, shitted on, pregnant women killed....... Humanity scares me.
It’s happening everywhere. People didn’t know China was messing with the uyghers ever since 2015 because we only found out in 2019. There will always be atrocities we don’t know about
@Cian MacGana There is bad conditions but it isn't a genocide as they are being "reeducated" and let out, they are not trying to kill them, however they are trying to outpopulate them. Ethnic cleansing not genocide, with the current information. Maybe there is a mass genocide but we really don't know.
It's been happening for 1000s of years and still going on today. But mostly everyone is distracted with lies about the USA being racist. They're trying to create a genocide in the US too but they will all be massacred.
Rwanda now has a rapidly expanding economy and they are expected to become the African version of Singapore. It's interesting to see how far they've developed since then.
Unlike Singapore they don’t have a coastline or strategic location though. Still I wish them the best and hope they do become an African Singapore. Maybe something will change which will make Rwanda more important like Singapore.
My Mum, Dad My aunty so as some other relatives escaped the horrible genocide my mum and aunty some times tell my family stories about the genocide and how they escaped the traumatic acts of the hutus. Trust me the war dosen't sound bad but trust me it is HORRIBLE. God bless your day 🥰 Want to say more but I can't without getting sad 🥺 (sorry for bad English)
I learned about this in my International Human Rights class in university, and I read a book called "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" by Philip Gourevitch. The book is an interesting read in that it inserts you directly into a first-person experience of the turmoil and terror of the Rwandan Genocide, but it is expresses by a journalist who traveled to Rwanda. I find the motivation for the genocide to be very interesting to think about. The two races, from an outsider's perspective, seemed to be fully integrated into each other, yet they still saw differences between each other. There is more to it than that. but that aspect stands out to me. Anyway, thank you for reading this if you did, and i appreciate this video a lot.
Some divisions can be dangerous even when there seems to be no consensus on their nature. For example, here’s some of the court testimony from a genocide convict during an appeals hearing in France on 5/4/18: Prosecutor: What is the meaning of Hutu and Tutsi? Defendant: I don’t know. It's ethnicity, but it has little meaning to me. I only learned about it in high school. No one had ever said anything to me about it before that. Now the man was born in 1950, he was a young teenager at the time of Rwanda’s independence, but until high school he had never heard of this Hutu-Tutsi business.
@@rutonde Because it was a made up control system established by the French and worsened by Belgium. Belgium was extremely cruel and ruthless over their colonies, they notoriously divided the local population and turned them against one another. Every colon they ruled ended in disaster and extreme violence the second they pulled out.
@@Noadvantage246 Yes. In the case of Rwanda they launched the genocide in 1959 - years before they ‘pulled out’ in 1962. By this latter year they had already killed, expelled or deported nearly half the Tutsi population which they accused of asking for an end to colonialism. Such a demand was a mortal sin in their colonial eyes.
@@Noadvantage246 Out of all of the colonial powers that ruled in Africa. The Belgians and the French were the worst. For all of the flak that Great Britian gets, Britain was the most fair and most moderate out of all colonial powers.
"You sure we should let them write their own laws? You know, maybe that minority they were oppressing might decided they want revenge." "Nah, they'll be fine." "Well, if you say so. Besides, what's the worst that could happen?"
@@tiannafunn You mean about the fact that the same ideology that perpetuated this genocide is a power in the United States? How they will happily murder all people they consider "right wing" and still see themselves as victims? Why would I be nervous?
Today is the 56th anniversary of one of the most horrifying episodes of the genocide against the Tutsi population in Rwanda. Here’s a contemporaneous account of what a French missionary priest, Henri Bazot, witnessed in the province where he officiated: “On the 25th of December 1963, in the afternoon, there was a plan of repression, which was to exterminate purely and simply the entire Tutsi population of a whole prefecture [i.e. a province], that of Gikongoro. All Hutus, Christians and pagans, catechists and catechumens, attacked the unfortunate Tutsis; they operated in groups of about a hundred people, led by "propagandists" of the ruling party [named Parmehutu], with the blessing of the authorities. This time, the goal was not to loot but to kill, to exterminate everything that was called Tutsi.” What is being described here is genocide, not war, because there’s no fighting - just the wholesale extermination of a natural human population.
The difference between Hutu and Tutsi is more than just class. They do, indeed, descend from groups from different parts of Africa (Hutus more West African and Tutsis more East African). They have since become greatly mixed but anyone who is has seen enough people from each group can tell that they have some obvious differences in ancestry. I compare it to East Asians and Southeast Asians. You can tell they're strongly related but there is more South Asian ancestry in the SE Asian groups. In Rwanda, like with everywhere else in the world, race/ethnicity is a gradient. The class distinctions between Hutu and Tutsi emerged from the power differential that happened to exist when the two groups met. This history was exploited by the German and, later, Belgian colonizers to conquer the Rwandan/Burundian kingdom. They first reinforced Tutsi dominance when the Tutsis were cooperating and then later intentionally flipped the dynamic when the Tutsi population started espousing anti-colonial views. Naturally, this resulted in a great deal of cultural/societal stress that culminated in the 1994 genocide (with many smaller clashes preceding).
Mostly the complication comes from the presentation, not the reality itself. The reality is that in the 1960s the colonial administration forcibly put local criminals into power. These never stopped doing what came to them naturally, until they exterminated 80% of their targeted population in 1994. Not much complication there.
@@rutonde Thank you for your contribution. I see you spreading useful information on what happened in Rwanda. Unfortunately, it is currently happening to the Amharas of Ethiopia and Oromos are massacring Amharas in the same fashion.
Why was this video so light hearted over what happened… we talking about genocide & you adding in jokes & festive music…. Never watching the channel or telling anyone else about it
Man, the quest for unity must have truly been a Herculean task. Literally *everyone* is conspiring against you. I would've hated to have been in any shoes in the administration.
ive heard from a guy who worked with the current leader kagame, said he had crazy Charisma. Hopefully he doesn't do a Bismark and create a country that cant operate without him
@@sorcererberoll4641 South Africa fought against the ANC and SWAPO in what is now Namibia. SWAPO, or the South West Africa People's Organization, was a group that fought for the independence of Namibia and now a modern day political party. The rebels had the support of Angola, Cuba, and of course the Soviet Union, while Portugal supported SA. Ultimately, SWAPO achieved its political goals and Namibia gained independence by 1990.
If you want, there is a French singer who his Franco-Rwandais (French, from Rwanda) and he has write a book on how he lived the genocide in is country, its called "Petit pays" (Little Country in english, the title might not be the same)
So basically it's somehow the colonizers who were responsible for the genocide. Similar story happened in the Indian subcontinent when the British left after dividing India which caused the unnecessary deaths of 1 million people. Shame on colonizers. Karma will hit them for sure.
Absolutely! The colonizers did the 1st mass murders to train local criminals who then kept on doing what they had been trained to do. th-cam.com/video/JKA2Ezdf2RY/w-d-xo.html
@olehomer1988 There exists ZERO evidence of any genocide in Rwanda before colonialism. Assumptions are *NOT* evidence. Anybody can assume anything so it’s meaningless. It was the colonizers who introduced genocide into the country. Below are some examples on how they trained their Hutu subordinates to exterminate the Tutsi population: “On June 20, 1960 a police platoon under *BELGIAN COMMAND* at Gikongoro [S-W Rwanda] opened fire on 250 Tutsi people who were refusing to be deported to Bugesera, after their homes had been set on fire. As a result, 27 were shot dead and 44 wounded.” “June 25, 1960: A group of Tutsi people refused deportation from their homes in Nyarushishi [Western Rwanda]. *BELGIAN TROOPS* opened fire, killing 75. Another 35 were seriously injured.” (Report by Lt. Col. Bruneau of the Belgian Army)
@olehomer1988 There are not 50 years between 1962 and 1994. No need to play loose with even simple facts. The report I quoted from is solid historical evidence by any rational standard: Contemporaneous official report of an officer from the offending side itself. It is consistent with other writings from the parties involved. What they did was to kill or expel a targeted human population. That’s not “using and building upon an existing order”. They killed or expelled half the Tutsi population and deported the remainder to the badlands. That’s a genocidal campaign. Yes they did it not alone but in cooperation with their Hutu subordinates, whom they then proceeded to install in power so they could continue this criminal enterprise over the next several decades. They propped them up and bankrolled them all the way to the ultimate episode of 1994! What you’re asking for in your last sentence isn’t just for Rwandans to take responsibility. Of course repentant ones do. But you’re also asking to whitewash the colonizers’ crimes. In other words you’re asking that history be falsified to make colonizers (and those who identify with them) feel good.
@olehomer1988 Targeting an entire human population, killing its members, uprooting the survivors and banishing them to the badlands isn’t policing. It’s a crime against humanity. That is what you see in action in those incidents! It was being carried out everywhere and it was a component of an overall genocidal campaign waged by the colonizers and their Hutu subordinates against the Tutsi population. Again, the scale of this crime is evident in the fact that by the early 1960s, fully half that population had been either killed or expelled from the country. Most of the remainder were plundered of their possessions and deported. The description below should make it clear that those incidents had nothing to do with policing and everything to do with police and army participation in the execution of a gigantic nationwide crime. This is eyewitness testimony from someone who was actually there and saw what happened. Like the military officer’s report, the testimony talks about how homes were systematically set on fire and the people killed. "The killers [in 1959] were supported by the [Belgian] administration officials of that time, and by the church authorities who were also heavily involved. I actually saw them; they would give a jerry can of gasoline to someone [a Hutu militiaman] and tell him: "Go burn down those houses!" [i.e. Tutsi people’s homes.] And one of them would stand behind his vehicle and send someone to set homes on fire. Interviewer’s Question: Who would be standing behind the vehicle? Answer: The [European] clergy of the time who were at the scene. Q: At that time from what you heard, who was supposed to burn down whose homes and why? A: That was clearly and openly stated: "Go kill Tutsis, drive them out, burn down their homes, kill them and kill their children too; they must get out of here, they are foreigners who came from Ethiopia, they arrived here as cattlemen. This country is not theirs but yours!" The Belgian authorities were saying this and the clergy said the same thing. Q: Can you tell us the names of those authorities and clergymen? A: Certainly. Europeans such as Turpin, Van Den Broeck, Cornu, Bafort, and many others of that time, including Gerardin, Braeck, all of those, yes. [Approximate spelling of names by sound]. The situation continued to worsen, and in 1960 the Belgian government announced that it would invite a United Nations delegation to see what was happening in the country - because at that time the UN was supposed to be responsible for Rwanda. It is the UN that had given Belgium the authority to rule Rwanda. Once the UN delegation arrived, the people who dared to contact it were later seized by night and killed. The Belgians killed a lot of people at that time, for example in the Nyungwe forest in a place that I know, that was shown to me. The Belgians were telling people, "Come with us, we will present you to the UN. You will be able to bring your complaints before the UN." They would then take them away and kill them. They massacred a lot of people like that. Those who were able to flee the country did so. They continued to flee in the 1960s. Others stayed put but they continued to suffer disappearances. People were regularly reported missing." (/watch?v=MaTGc7ec_fA) The Belgian administration remained in place for several more years until 1962; it remained in charge of security forces even after 1962 and kept up its anti-Tutsi campaign all along, which culminated eventually into the 1994 episode. As you may be aware, by formal agreement between the Vatican and Belgium, the Catholic clergy in Rwanda was essentially part of the colonial administration. The relationship was especially close because Catholicism was the official religion of the Belgian Kingdom. With the help of colonial officials almost all Rwandans had already been converted to Catholicism by the 1950s. This placed the clergy in a strong position of authority in the country.
@olehomer1988 Although I believe this is not on topic, I find your figures somewhat interesting. The colonizers did cause 300K deaths in Rwanda in 1943-1944, mainly by famine whereby people would literally drop dead, out in the open across the country. It was of a severity never seen before or since. If population doubles in about 30 yrs (1930 - 1960), then: By 1944 popul had grown about 40%, so it’d be 1.5M *140% = 2.1M approx. In 1944, 300K starve to death, leaving 2.1-0.3 = 1.8M. By 1960 popul would be 1.8*150% =approx. 2.7M as you stated. Thus, even though the famine was horrific it still wouldn’t stand out from looking at the figures! The population would still have nearly doubled from 1930 to 1960, the intervening 1944 famine notwithstanding. An important observation here is that demographic numbers in general are too blunt to be good indicators of specific events. Take the 1994 genocide as another example. In 1993 (i.e. before genocide launch), popul approx. 7M; today almost 12M. Very comparable to the growth rate you noted for colonial period. Again, no sign of a genocide to detect in those numbers! That’s because global demographic numbers are not a suitable detector!
Lets be real : When this dude would just told the same Intro when its about germany and mass genocid it would be a very different Story... Some people would be very angry
Disappointed by how indiscreet and flippant you were in addressing such a serious and grave topic. Humour has a place everywhere, but not in the manner you have shown in this video
Nobody knows. The accepted story is that he was killed in combat, but French historian, Gérard Prunier, suggests he was murdered by Tutsi commanders for candidly wanting to join forces with Hutu moderates to stomp out Hutu extremist elements in the MRND government. I don't think we will ever know, but he remains a national hero in Rwanda today.
Great videos bro, if you can upload more often and try to take request amap, you're channel will absolutely blow up. Well done man. Looking forward to more uploads.
Given that the intro overshadowed the video to the point 90% of comments were talking about it, I took it out
CORRECTIONS N SHIZZ
- Pronunciation is as usual; flawed
- Just about every symbol in this video is made up, not real symbols
- 3:04 It's Ruanda-Urundi, not Ruanda-Burundi
- 6:47 Rwandan PATRIOTIC Front, not the Rwandan Political Front
Feature History 0:35 You missed the opportunity for an actual funny meme. XP
+Jackninja5 using copyrighted material for the sponsor segment is not a great idea
Jackninja5 Over 9000 hasn't been a funny meme for about a decade.
Feature History thanks for another awesome video mate :)
I hope you know you now have your own reserved circle of hell just for the intro
Fun Fact:
The "U" in UN stands for Useless
certainly when one of itts main members (france) decide to curb it to play a retarded game of realpolitic
Well UN soldiers (blue helmets) are the Earth's equivalent to the Storm Trooper Corp.
N stands for NATO when you attack Kosovo
+Will Simmons
Never happened. NATO bombed the Serbian army because they wanted to cause yet another genocide, this time in Kosovo.
Serb nazis are still butthurt about it. :-)
Fida Md-Saini you do realize those guys want to help right? They are forced to follow bad orders. Don't hate them hate the political. leaders above them.
@3:02 "Rwanda was given to Belgium after WW!..."
Oh no. This won't be good.
I'm Belgian , were not the only guys who made colonies ... just ... come on ... seriously ?
Your Averange Rando
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Your Averange Rando yeah but Belgians have a reputation for having the worst colonies
Asmoh أسموح I just thought the Belgians gave their colonists waffles
Asmoh أسموح every former Belgian colony is shit, with the exception of Rwanda, which basically hit rock bottom before improving and is now buttfucking one of Belgium’s other colonies, the Congo
It’s amazing because nowadays Rwanda is one of the best and fast developing countries in Africa
that isn't a high bar tho
InfernoSlayer That's because instead of promoting retribution towards the Hutus, Kagame promoted reconciliation between the people. When a country is stable, it will develop fast.
James Tang Posibbly, they do have some resemblance, he is a semi authoritative person, which Lee Kuan Yew is, but both are competent semi dictatorships who try to keep the government clean and help to encourage economic growth. Kagame is trying to make progress but it's too early to make judgments on his administration.
Hasn't been in power since the 2000s though?
James Tang Yes but we'll need to see how it turns out many years later, trust me, many new political leaders seem nice at first but it's too early to predict what will happen in the future. Kagame has done an immensely great job for the past almost 2 decades for Rwanda, I'll give him that. It's not easy to keep the country from tearing each other apart after what just happened, let alone helping perpetrators and survivors to effectively reconcile. Yet he still hasn't revert some policies on cracking down on his political opponents.
Robert Mugabe was once also a promising politician too, he promoted reconciliation between blacks and whites in Zimbabwe after their independence but as the years went by he became an ignorant, senile old man who violently confiscated white farmer's lands and running his country's economy to the ground. He refused to step down until forced to do so by his former allies who paint themselves as liberators but are also corrupt and power hungry politicians themselves.
I just hope Paul Kagame could keep up the good work, it's never easy to run a country especially a war torn one like Rwanda, maybe he would become one of the best African presidents we ever know, still hard to tell though.
Rwanda: Belgium's other failed colonial experiment.
Featuring special guest: the German Empire
Next chapter: France
today we look at how not to colonize with Belgium. Guest staring the Italians.
James Tang atleast east africa was doing fine under the germans.......just ignore that one rebellion where the natives thought that water made them bulletproofed just because some idiot said so.
BigGuy4U its payback bitches.
MsSuperFerry And then the Belgian government took it back and they still couldn't turn it into anything other than an exploitation colony.
Sad part is that a similar genocide could erupt at almost any time in Burundi. The good news is Rwanda has healed remarkably since the genocide and is actually developing fairly well. But just a country away the same ethnic groups are at each other's throat and on the verge of genocide.
Cool I gues I would prefer to have nato take charge and help
Actually in the 80's or 70's a genocide happened in Burundi that killed 100,000
@@jacaredosvudu1638 There were two; one in 1972 (probably the one you mean), with about 100-150,000 Hutu killed, and one in 1993, in which 116,000 Tutsi were killed.
@@olachens It look like they hate each other but Hutu is always outnumber Tutsi which make Tutsi reply on superior firepower
@@olachenssadly hate used to be a double knife
Crazy how far Rwanda has come. Through everything. Now they are one of the fastest growing nations on Earth. They have the most representation and political freedom for women in office of any nation on earth, more than even Denmark and Norway. Now Kigali is the cleanest city in Africa, and the nation is growing fast. Rwanda still has a long way to go, but they are well on their way. Kagame promised it would be a lower middle economy by 2020. Never stop Rwanda. Show the world you weren't willing to just lay down, rot, and die. Love to Rwanda, from the US
this doesn't change the fact that they brutually killed millions
@@sandeshpatil3785 Your reading comprehension skills are non existent.
@@sandeshpatil3785 what's that Native Americans? Oh no there is just a massive hypocrite saying that a country cannot move on from their bloody past.
Broheim Rwanda is still an authoritarian dictatorship under kagame, the country has thousands of political prisoners imprisoned on flimsy charges, even the international community that was so sympathetic to Kagame after the genocide is calling him out for this repression. The parliament which has such a high proportion of women is basically a rubber stamp. And even though the economy is doing well much of the post-genocide growth is just from the repatriation of Tutsi refugees and the use of illegally seized Congolese diamond mines to bolster state income.
Rwanda does well because it’s a democracy with rule of law. It’s one of the few countries where ordinary people can speak to the president in person and get a direct answer to their concerns.
This genocide really makes me feel uneasy. Babies skulls crushed on church walls. Million dying in less than 4 month. 250k women raped, tortured, shitted on, pregnant women killed....... Humanity scares me.
It's happening in Ethiopia. The Amhara ethnic group is being massacred in the most brutal fashion as we speak.
It’s happening everywhere. People didn’t know China was messing with the uyghers ever since 2015 because we only found out in 2019. There will always be atrocities we don’t know about
@Cian MacGana There is an atrocity, people are being sent to horrendous conditions, yet it is not a genocide, but that doesn't make it ok.
@Cian MacGana There is bad conditions but it isn't a genocide as they are being "reeducated" and let out, they are not trying to kill them, however they are trying to outpopulate them. Ethnic cleansing not genocide, with the current information. Maybe there is a mass genocide but we really don't know.
It's been happening for 1000s of years and still going on today. But mostly everyone is distracted with lies about the USA being racist. They're trying to create a genocide in the US too but they will all be massacred.
This immediately reminds me of Hotel Rwanda.
I watched that film when I was much younger. I liked it better watching it again now that I'm a little older.
Agreed. It's a microcosm of what went on in Rwanda. Awesome movie.
HistoryMarche who doesn't?
Ah man, Hotel Rwanda. Great movie.
How strange
Rwanda now has a rapidly expanding economy and they are expected to become the African version of Singapore. It's interesting to see how far they've developed since then.
Unlike Singapore they don’t have a coastline or strategic location though. Still I wish them the best and hope they do become an African Singapore. Maybe something will change which will make Rwanda more important like Singapore.
@@mrniceguy7168 i mean... they have a lake coastline
@@sonoftheway3528 technically correct
lol. They are about to become an African version of Laos, being generous
@@BonVoyage861 funny
You have to love that TH-cam demonitzes educational content, but scoffs at demonitizing drama channels which stir up constant controversy.
TH-cam is a totalitarian video site
Very informative yet being brief with quality visuals. Why can’t our schools uses sources like this?
Because I ear rape dead memes
Because TH-cam videos have to be entertaining for you to want to watch them
I'm a teacher, I use TH-cam... Students still complain.
@@miriamjenkins7337 students just doesn't want to work and have every little thing to complain about
As a fellow African the comeback Rwanda has done is great and gives me hope :)
My Mum, Dad My aunty so as some other relatives escaped the horrible genocide my mum and aunty some times tell my family stories about the genocide and how they escaped the traumatic acts of the hutus. Trust me the war dosen't sound bad but trust me it is HORRIBLE.
God bless your day 🥰 Want to say more but I can't without getting sad 🥺 (sorry for bad English)
I am from the UK your English was excellent
Much respect and hope you all are doing much better now! Also, as said above your English is good
🙏❤❤🙏🤗
I'm so glad your mom and aunt escaped Your English is Perfect
Skzline: 1 year later; I hope that you are healthy and safe, and living a good life! Much love! 💘
I learned about this in my International Human Rights class in university, and I read a book called "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" by Philip Gourevitch. The book is an interesting read in that it inserts you directly into a first-person experience of the turmoil and terror of the Rwandan Genocide, but it is expresses by a journalist who traveled to Rwanda. I find the motivation for the genocide to be very interesting to think about. The two races, from an outsider's perspective, seemed to be fully integrated into each other, yet they still saw differences between each other. There is more to it than that. but that aspect stands out to me. Anyway, thank you for reading this if you did, and i appreciate this video a lot.
Some divisions can be dangerous even when there seems to be no consensus on their nature. For example, here’s some of the court testimony from a genocide convict during an appeals hearing in France on 5/4/18:
Prosecutor: What is the meaning of Hutu and Tutsi?
Defendant: I don’t know. It's ethnicity, but it has little meaning to me. I only learned about it in high school. No one had ever said anything to me about it before that.
Now the man was born in 1950, he was a young teenager at the time of Rwanda’s independence, but until high school he had never heard of this Hutu-Tutsi business.
@@rutonde Because it was a made up control system established by the French and worsened by Belgium. Belgium was extremely cruel and ruthless over their colonies, they notoriously divided the local population and turned them against one another. Every colon they ruled ended in disaster and extreme violence the second they pulled out.
@@Noadvantage246 Yes. In the case of Rwanda they launched the genocide in 1959 - years before they ‘pulled out’ in 1962. By this latter year they had already killed, expelled or deported nearly half the Tutsi population which they accused of asking for an end to colonialism. Such a demand was a mortal sin in their colonial eyes.
@@Noadvantage246 Out of all of the colonial powers that ruled in Africa. The Belgians and the French were the worst. For all of the flak that Great Britian gets, Britain was the most fair and most moderate out of all colonial powers.
@@LordMalice6d9😂 The Africans treat each other worse. Keep trying to blame white people.
"A million died, it's not funny, We're bad people, all of us."
Yeah, us black people are so bad with our weird hair and non white skin, like what's up with that?
gtas321 Relax, everyone is shit ok...
What fucking shit storm did I stumble into
@AARAV PRITESH fuck u
The Crimson. not all of africa is like that bro chill
Great video as always! I love the "no eye" aestethic, gives the images more artistic value! Can't wait for part 2, carry on the great work!
But who killed cpt. Alex??
BezimiennyBot The guy dressed as Spider-Man
BezimiennyBot lol nice reference
That was made in Uganda, not Rwanda.
Schwarzenegger from Bad Black.
BezimiennyBot, Let me guess you know about through IHE! xD
UN 1945: Never again!
Rwanda and Bosnia: Are we a joke to you?!
2021 as well lol.....
And now it’s currently happening again in Palestine
@@H.rgirlie Palestine, Myanmar, China, Darfur, South Sudan, and many more.
This kind of horrible stuff just doesn't end, sadly.
@@H.rgirlie lol you wish
"You sure we should let them write their own laws? You know, maybe that minority they were oppressing might decided they want revenge."
"Nah, they'll be fine."
"Well, if you say so. Besides, what's the worst that could happen?"
😂
It’s wasn’t the minority that was oppressed. It was the majority.
Except the Hutus were the majority
@@tiannafunn You mean about the fact that the same ideology that perpetuated this genocide is a power in the United States? How they will happily murder all people they consider "right wing" and still see themselves as victims?
Why would I be nervous?
Thanks for all the videos Feature History! You make it fun to learn about history.
So it's the Belgians who started it? Sounds about right, it's usually them or the English.
Yep
We and many colonising countries made a lot of bad shit happen ...
And it was the President's wife that kicked it into overdrive.
I’ll kidnap ur ashtray
Thaaaat's racist *Ding*
Suggestion: Pinochet's Chile
Ay, helicopter rides for everybody!
Wanys123 Hell yeah
Mi General Augusto Pinochet.
That's kinda ironic coming from you. Lol
Sayori is Best Girl huh, keeping in character. Sowwyy
Today is the 56th anniversary of one of the most horrifying episodes of the genocide against the Tutsi population in Rwanda.
Here’s a contemporaneous account of what a French missionary priest, Henri Bazot, witnessed in the province where he officiated:
“On the 25th of December 1963, in the afternoon, there was a plan of repression, which was to exterminate purely and simply the entire Tutsi population of a whole prefecture [i.e. a province], that of Gikongoro. All Hutus, Christians and pagans, catechists and catechumens, attacked the unfortunate Tutsis; they operated in groups of about a hundred people, led by "propagandists" of the ruling party [named Parmehutu], with the blessing of the authorities. This time, the goal was not to loot but to kill, to exterminate everything that was called Tutsi.”
What is being described here is genocide, not war, because there’s no fighting - just the wholesale extermination of a natural human population.
I know you said no apologies but...
I think we deserve one
Tox DaSandwich heck no
no, you apologize
What?
My baaad?
Fuck all Hutus who participated in the genocide
Great intro, it was a great way to start off a video covering a genocide. And thanks for the ear damage.
Seeing the video and going 'Nice! The Rwandan genocide!' made me stop and think about what I just said
The difference between Hutu and Tutsi is more than just class. They do, indeed, descend from groups from different parts of Africa (Hutus more West African and Tutsis more East African). They have since become greatly mixed but anyone who is has seen enough people from each group can tell that they have some obvious differences in ancestry. I compare it to East Asians and Southeast Asians. You can tell they're strongly related but there is more South Asian ancestry in the SE Asian groups. In Rwanda, like with everywhere else in the world, race/ethnicity is a gradient.
The class distinctions between Hutu and Tutsi emerged from the power differential that happened to exist when the two groups met.
This history was exploited by the German and, later, Belgian colonizers to conquer the Rwandan/Burundian kingdom. They first reinforced Tutsi dominance when the Tutsis were cooperating and then later intentionally flipped the dynamic when the Tutsi population started espousing anti-colonial views. Naturally, this resulted in a great deal of cultural/societal stress that culminated in the 1994 genocide (with many smaller clashes preceding).
It seems like they really learned from this, Rwanda is now one of the fastest developing and safest countries in Africa
This is the most complicated thing I have ever heard.
Mostly the complication comes from the presentation, not the reality itself. The reality is that in the 1960s the colonial administration forcibly put local criminals into power. These never stopped doing what came to them naturally, until they exterminated 80% of their targeted population in 1994. Not much complication there.
@@rutonde Thank you for your contribution. I see you spreading useful information on what happened in Rwanda. Unfortunately, it is currently happening to the Amharas of Ethiopia and Oromos are massacring Amharas in the same fashion.
You should look into the Balkan wars after the collapse of Yugoslavia
Writing an essay on genocide using this as a case study man I never realised how complex the conflict was
This video needs to be trending right now
Video on liberia, the conflict in the DRC or the arab spring and resulting conflicts would be cool.
Kieran Keddo-Powell like the Libyan Civil War & the Yemeni Civil War.
Exactly my dude.
Or watch the video first
Feature History shhhh I was very excited
It'd be cool if he did Chechen Wars
Finally a video i have waiting for so long
Your snarky humor is what makes me love you aussie man
These are magnificent! It would be nice thought if they came out more often
Why was this video so light hearted over what happened… we talking about genocide & you adding in jokes & festive music…. Never watching the channel or telling anyone else about it
Tbf he was 16 when he made it
I have to say I appreciate the use of the Far Cry 2 soundtrack in this video. Very appropriate. Loved the game, loved the video.
Yeeeeeees a new video I have been waiting for this
Video series on Arab-Isralie conflicts??
Kieran Keddo-Powell That'd take more than two parts lol.
I wouldn't touch that with a 200 foot pole, and even then, I'd have to think it over for a few hours.
n o
How to start a shitstorm
You might like the 23 hour or so Martyrmade podcast series titled Fear and Loathing in New Jerusalem.
i wrote an essay on this for my final and got the top grade
all i did was write about how useless the UN was and my teacher loved it lol.
Your videos are an inspiration to historical creators and artists alike. Keep it up!
Thanks for another great video! Very interesting
You’ve become such a pro at these videos!
That Intro was incredible. Thank you for the enlightenment.
This was a tragic part of history, like many other historical events... you all need more subscribers too.
Man, the quest for unity must have truly been a Herculean task. Literally *everyone* is conspiring against you. I would've hated to have been in any shoes in the administration.
ive heard from a guy who worked with the current leader kagame, said he had crazy Charisma. Hopefully he doesn't do a Bismark and create a country that cant operate without him
That's the soundtrack from Far Cry 2 ! Seems veryy fitting since the game takes place in an unnamed Central-African nation in civil war.
I love the art style of this channel
This is a fantastic video. Looking forward for part 2.
I come for the interesting content; I stay for the appalling racist comments.
that only applies to black Americans dummy
hlary It applies to nigerians. Almost every nigerian I know has his father on the other side of the world.
psh, black people amirite
@@artski09 that's actually true in a lot of cases
@@swahi2702 very true I don't know where my dad is haha
You should do a video on the Balkan Wars.
odys mar he already made two about them
@Christian Weibrecht no, he made videos on yugoslav wars, which is an entirely different thing. Balkan wars would be fucking amazing.
Well done to Rwanda for the beautiful rise from ashes. Us Poles fully understand your struggles, and wish you the brightest of futures
Damn you Why have I fallen to a void of your videos, im stuck in a marathon of your videos now.
im glad i can chuckle in a video light this. great work !!!
Please do a video on the South African Border War, that would be absolutely fantastic.
Aidan Smith who was that against
In addition to the Angolan wars
@@sorcererberoll4641 communists.
@@sorcererberoll4641 South Africa fought against the ANC and SWAPO in what is now Namibia. SWAPO, or the South West Africa People's Organization, was a group that fought for the independence of Namibia and now a modern day political party.
The rebels had the support of Angola, Cuba, and of course the Soviet Union, while Portugal supported SA.
Ultimately, SWAPO achieved its political goals and Namibia gained independence by 1990.
Brother, This is not da wae
Brudda*
its time to stop
A million died
It's not funny
We're bad people
All of us
God damn NoRMIES
Fuck off you normie, that meme is dead. Quit making a fool out of yourself.
i met someone who lived though this geocide his name is james he is a pastor and is now trying to help his contry
If you want, there is a French singer who his Franco-Rwandais (French, from Rwanda) and he has write a book on how he lived the genocide in is country, its called "Petit pays" (Little Country in english, the title might not be the same)
thx for the video tho. awesome, as usual
Well.....R.I.P ugandan knuckles intro, didnt even survive till march.
Woah, the meme is 3 years old already, time passed so fast..
@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ time truly flies.
@@A_annoying_rodent damn your comment is 3 years old time really flya
1:14 to skip the ad
Leeroy Jenkins doing the lords work.
Leeroy Jenkins thanks
my man pots n’ pans
Can you please do the Arab spring?
Or the Six Day war, Arab Israeli conflict in general maybe
Was going to ask for this but you saved me the trouble! 😊
@1:50
" there's nothing here , lmao "
How's your day by the way?
(the text card referring to Rwandan history) LMAOOO
I'm taking a course on genocide and we spent like a week learning about Rwandan genocide, so I can confidently approve of this video
Best wishes to Rwanda 🇷🇼 from Canada 🇨🇦
"Fuck Canada" American UN Rep. 1999
Nooo, he removed the Ugandan nuckals meme in the beginning, that was so funny but o well.
what?! why he do dat?
My familly was victime of the genocide and my parents are still really heartbroken thats why they never wanted to tell me what happend
Opening was excited for this video then I felt bad right after. Great video
POV you just watched Mark Rober’s video
The tone in this video is shamefully inappropriate for such a serious subject
Narrator: Im a monotone history teacher who cracks dry jokes about genocides just to keep you mindless drones' eyes glued to this dull video.
Excellent video my brudda
These kinds of wars against people who are basically the same yet believe they're different always stupefied me
So basically it's somehow the colonizers who were responsible for the genocide. Similar story happened in the Indian subcontinent when the British left after dividing India which caused the unnecessary deaths of 1 million people. Shame on colonizers. Karma will hit them for sure.
Absolutely! The colonizers did the 1st mass murders to train local criminals who then kept on doing what they had been trained to do. th-cam.com/video/JKA2Ezdf2RY/w-d-xo.html
@olehomer1988 There exists ZERO evidence of any genocide in Rwanda before colonialism. Assumptions are *NOT* evidence. Anybody can assume anything so it’s meaningless. It was the colonizers who introduced genocide into the country.
Below are some examples on how they trained their Hutu subordinates to exterminate the Tutsi population:
“On June 20, 1960 a police platoon under *BELGIAN COMMAND* at Gikongoro [S-W Rwanda] opened fire on 250 Tutsi people who were refusing to be deported to Bugesera, after their homes had been set on fire. As a result, 27 were shot dead and 44 wounded.”
“June 25, 1960: A group of Tutsi people refused deportation from their homes in Nyarushishi [Western Rwanda]. *BELGIAN TROOPS* opened fire, killing 75. Another 35 were seriously injured.”
(Report by Lt. Col. Bruneau of the Belgian Army)
@olehomer1988 There are not 50 years between 1962 and 1994. No need to play loose with even simple facts. The report I quoted from is solid historical evidence by any rational standard: Contemporaneous official report of an officer from the offending side itself. It is consistent with other writings from the parties involved.
What they did was to kill or expel a targeted human population. That’s not “using and building upon an existing order”. They killed or expelled half the Tutsi population and deported the remainder to the badlands. That’s a genocidal campaign.
Yes they did it not alone but in cooperation with their Hutu subordinates, whom they then proceeded to install in power so they could continue this criminal enterprise over the next several decades. They propped them up and bankrolled them all the way to the ultimate episode of 1994!
What you’re asking for in your last sentence isn’t just for Rwandans to take responsibility. Of course repentant ones do. But you’re also asking to whitewash the colonizers’ crimes. In other words you’re asking that history be falsified to make colonizers (and those who identify with them) feel good.
@olehomer1988 Targeting an entire human population, killing its members, uprooting the survivors and banishing them to the badlands isn’t policing. It’s a crime against humanity. That is what you see in action in those incidents! It was being carried out everywhere and it was a component of an overall genocidal campaign waged by the colonizers and their Hutu subordinates against the Tutsi population.
Again, the scale of this crime is evident in the fact that by the early 1960s, fully half that population had been either killed or expelled from the country. Most of the remainder were plundered of their possessions and deported.
The description below should make it clear that those incidents had nothing to do with policing and everything to do with police and army participation in the execution of a gigantic nationwide crime. This is eyewitness testimony from someone who was actually there and saw what happened. Like the military officer’s report, the testimony talks about how homes were systematically set on fire and the people killed.
"The killers [in 1959] were supported by the [Belgian] administration officials of that time, and by the church authorities who were also heavily involved. I actually saw them; they would give a jerry can of gasoline to someone [a Hutu militiaman] and tell him: "Go burn down those houses!" [i.e. Tutsi people’s homes.] And one of them would stand behind his vehicle and send someone to set homes on fire.
Interviewer’s Question: Who would be standing behind the vehicle?
Answer: The [European] clergy of the time who were at the scene.
Q: At that time from what you heard, who was supposed to burn down whose homes and why?
A: That was clearly and openly stated: "Go kill Tutsis, drive them out, burn down their homes, kill them and kill their children too; they must get out of here, they are foreigners who came from Ethiopia, they arrived here as cattlemen. This country is not theirs but yours!" The Belgian authorities were saying this and the clergy said the same thing.
Q: Can you tell us the names of those authorities and clergymen?
A: Certainly. Europeans such as Turpin, Van Den Broeck, Cornu, Bafort, and many others of that time, including Gerardin, Braeck, all of those, yes. [Approximate spelling of names by sound].
The situation continued to worsen, and in 1960 the Belgian government announced that it would invite a United Nations delegation to see what was happening in the country - because at that time the UN was supposed to be responsible for Rwanda. It is the UN that had given Belgium the authority to rule Rwanda.
Once the UN delegation arrived, the people who dared to contact it were later seized by night and killed. The Belgians killed a lot of people at that time, for example in the Nyungwe forest in a place that I know, that was shown to me. The Belgians were telling people, "Come with us, we will present you to the UN. You will be able to bring your complaints before the UN." They would then take them away and kill them. They massacred a lot of people like that.
Those who were able to flee the country did so. They continued to flee in the 1960s. Others stayed put but they continued to suffer disappearances. People were regularly reported missing."
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The Belgian administration remained in place for several more years until 1962; it remained in charge of security forces even after 1962 and kept up its anti-Tutsi campaign all along, which culminated eventually into the 1994 episode.
As you may be aware, by formal agreement between the Vatican and Belgium, the Catholic clergy in Rwanda was essentially part of the colonial administration. The relationship was especially close because Catholicism was the official religion of the Belgian Kingdom. With the help of colonial officials almost all Rwandans had already been converted to Catholicism by the 1950s. This placed the clergy in a strong position of authority in the country.
@olehomer1988 Although I believe this is not on topic, I find your figures somewhat interesting. The colonizers did cause 300K deaths in Rwanda in 1943-1944, mainly by famine whereby people would literally drop dead, out in the open across the country. It was of a severity never seen before or since.
If population doubles in about 30 yrs (1930 - 1960), then:
By 1944 popul had grown about 40%, so it’d be 1.5M *140% = 2.1M approx.
In 1944, 300K starve to death, leaving 2.1-0.3 = 1.8M.
By 1960 popul would be 1.8*150% =approx. 2.7M as you stated.
Thus, even though the famine was horrific it still wouldn’t stand out from looking at the figures! The population would still have nearly doubled from 1930 to 1960, the intervening 1944 famine notwithstanding.
An important observation here is that demographic numbers in general are too blunt to be good indicators of specific events.
Take the 1994 genocide as another example. In 1993 (i.e. before genocide launch), popul approx. 7M; today almost 12M. Very comparable to the growth rate you noted for colonial period. Again, no sign of a genocide to detect in those numbers! That’s because global demographic numbers are not a suitable detector!
Belgium AGAIN
All colonisers , either Belgian , German , French or whatever else did horrible things . (I'm Belgian)
@@unaizuriarrain1071 without colonisation, africa would have never evolved
@@timmynator8036 Africa was thriving prior to colonisation, Europe was not a saviour to the continent. more like a plague.
@@timmynator8036 don't make that excuse
@@bondrewdthelordofdawn3744 haha funny little man
A Belgian colony? That was given to Belgium by the German Empire? And it surprised people something like this could happen?!
Dank people kinda forget history and think what actions today taken are just a small part of an amazing history all the European nations did
Very well done again!
Very informative video. thanks.
Lets be real :
When this dude would just told the same Intro when its about germany and mass genocid it would be a very different Story... Some people would be very angry
Eh they'll get over it
cause people lurking on reddit who haven't met a single person outside their race, or social background are sensitive, and easily offended.
Man african history is so interesting, love it!
I don't see many history channels talk about historical events in Central America. Ive always wanted to know more about the El Salvadorean civil war
The GREAT COURSES PLUS!!! YEAAAHH! :D
CUT SOWN THE TALL GRASS!! that statement sent a shiver down my spine
What about Burundi be given to the Tutsi and Rwanda to the Hutus?
Props to using the Far Cry 2 soundtrack. Loved that music :D
Do a video on the Free Territory/Makhnovia in the Russian Civil War! It’s barely ever talked about, but was very influential
I love how there was a prequel to the genocide that was twice as deadly as the Yugoslav wars but got no attention
i love this channel
Hey why did you remove the Ugandan knuckles?
Hitting me hard with that Far Cry 2 soundtrack!
why did you make this video lighthearted...?
Perfect video for my birthday :D
"Not too dissimilar from Nazi Germany."
I learned it from watching you, DAD!
The book the UN general wrote was more horrific than I could imagine
Disappointed by how indiscreet and flippant you were in addressing such a serious and grave topic. Humour has a place everywhere, but not in the manner you have shown in this video
Absolutely agreed.
But who killed commander Rwigyema!?
VJ Emmie on da microphone!
I think someone shot down a plane
Nobody knows. The accepted story is that he was killed in combat, but French historian, Gérard Prunier, suggests he was murdered by Tutsi commanders for candidly wanting to join forces with Hutu moderates to stomp out Hutu extremist elements in the MRND government. I don't think we will ever know, but he remains a national hero in Rwanda today.
General Rwigema was killed on the 2nd day battle from enemy fire.And nothing else is known beyond that
@@kwizeraelvis3056 yup and you talk with a rwandan here
Great videos bro, if you can upload more often and try to take request amap, you're channel will absolutely blow up. Well done man. Looking forward to more uploads.
please let that intro be the only ugandan knuckles gag in this series because holy shit that almost killed me
the pain