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s0nicfan posted...

and was also one ethnic group slaughtering another over control of a region

this isn't true.

also, when Rwanda was a German colony, the Germans (and eventually the Belgians) propped up the Tutsi as being the superior ethnic group over the Hutu, even though neither initially saw each other as that (it was more of a class thing). iirc, the Germans were so impressed by how the Tutsi governed the country, they saw them as a lost European people's.

but after years of that, when the Europeans left, they gave the power to the Hutu majority, and years of mistreatment led them treating the Tutsi like second-class citizens.

that, on top of propaganda that the Tutsi were outsiders, had much of the Hutu ready to kill the Tutsi, and that's what happened after the Hutu president was assassinated.

edit: sorry, they weren't seen as European, but more European.