Whitney A. Bryant 2/15/12 ENGL 1102 Ms. Caruso Historical Inquiry Assignment Politics is power, Hutu power.

Here is a quote from the DVD Film Hotel Rwanda in 2004. This film depicts the Rwandan genocide, and the revenge of the Hutu. Rwanda is a small island composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa. On this very island in 1994, and very well before, many were killed, hundred thousands of men, women, and children. There are many causes of this genocide, and there are also sideline accusations, and inferences of what caused the mass killing. Here is how the genocide initiated. The Twa, the Hutu, and the Tutsi were originally well integrated. They shared the same culture the same language, believed in the same Good, belonged to joint clans, and lived side by side throughout the country. If a person claimed there was no difference between Hutu and Tutsi, or that the difference was one of class, the speaker was most likely a Tutsi (Mamdani p.41). Mahmood Mamdani, author of When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, searches for origins and the migration process, to narrow down three studies to support the difference between studies were height, genotype, and the memory of people of region. These ethnic groups were different in size because the Hutu were known as squat and medium (Mamdani p. 44), the Tutsi were known as slender and tall and the Twa were short. Through genotype, blood factors, sickle cell traits, and being able to digest lactose were considered for distinguishing the differences between the three ethnic groups, and lastly the memory of people of region as their cultural archive. Though Tutsi were on average taller than the Hutu, they were in more respects more different from Europeans than were Hutu; after all they were darker than the Hutu in skin color, had thicker lips,
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while their hair was almost as spiraled as that of the Hutu.(Mamdani p.47) Even though there were many studies developed to tell the differences between the two ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi were house neighbors, some also were intimately married. But still, everyone is either distinguished as a flat out Hutu or a flat out Tutsi. The Hutu and the Tutsi were seen as political identities that changed with the changing history of the Rwandan state, but a main political identity, the Hutu, was constructed as a consequence of the state of Rwanda (Mamdani p. 73).
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