Why did the Belgian government invoke hatred between the Hutus and the Tutsis while they were still in power?

Question

After WWI Belgium was given Rwanda by the League of nations and according to one account, the government turned the Hutus and the Tutsis against each other. The two tribes lived in harmony even when the Germans had control of Rwanda from 1895 to the end of WWI. But once the Belgians took over, the two tribes began to hate each other, and this hatred led to the 1994 genocide, I would like to know why they made the Hutus and the Tutsis hate each other.

Answer 1

divide et impera (to divide and rule)

Answer 2

the problem goes far back before the colonization of that region. The Hutu's where the original people but around the 11 century the Tutsi ( which are a warrior tribe ) concord the region.
The Hutu's ( farmers as origin ) became the subordinates of the Tutsi. The Tutsi started a kind of kingdom with them self in the upper classes of the society.This provoked a lot of tension with already some major upraises even before the colonization.

In the time of the German and the Belgium government and with the introducing of the Christendom the situation became more normal with the Hutu's in a position that corespondent with the number of population ( Hutu +/- 90 % Tutsi +/- 10 % )
After that the region got its independents the Hutu's got the power.
But a little group of radical Tutsi weren't put up with that ( they would try to conquer there per colonization position back ) and the tension started to build up in the region .
This gave the major outbreak of the killing of the Hutu's and moderated Tutsi

Answer 3

That the Hutu and Tutsi lived in harmony is not correct. In fact one population controlled the other as in a medieval society with mobility and common people. The hate was just always under the society but no uprising was possible. Just the democratic principles according to the percentage of populations used by the Belgians made that the hate came to a anticlimax. But the genocide of 1994 was not only due to the Belgians. It was the result of decenia of hate after the independence. (After the independence a lot of violent revolutions occurred when each tribe tried to take power of stay in power (just has it happened before the colonisations by Germany or Belgium).

Answer 4

As an occupying force, isn't it better if you can get 2 factions to hate each other instead of banding together and fighting you? This may have been Belgium's strategy.