Do they accept it or not?
2007-01-20 22:05:39 · 3 answers · asked by peaceathome 2 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Belgium
The things you present here don't change the fact that the people died. It was a genocidal act but noone ever passes a law about it in their parliaments, why?
2007-01-21 23:11:39 · update #1
The tutsis and the hutus have never got on as the tutsis although fewer in number and thinking themselves a more noble tribe use to enslave the hutus until the tutsis were driven out to neighbooring countries like uganda , the congo etc. longing for thier homeland back they started launching guerilla raids on the hutus before finally edging back into rwanda, but of course the huts would have none of it and so the slaughter began. I think Belgians should be more concerned with the behaviour of their occupying troops under ~King Leopold in the Congo during colonial times.
2007-01-20 22:22:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Belgium citizen does not like any genocide whatever origin (against the Jews, Armenians or Rwanda genocide).
We do not deny the genocide and are still upset by it. If the UN and the French had given more support the Belgian troops had stayed and should have been able to save more people.
Do not forget that 10 para-commandos died while protecting a minister from being killed in the genocide.
As some one tried to say that the occupying forces under Leopold II had something to do with it, he is wrong. A that moment Rwanda didn't belong to Belgium but under German rule. Beside the problems between Hutu and Tutsi date from centuries before the colonisation period.
After WW1 the Belgians got the protectorate of Rwanda-Burundi but the didn't change the ruling classes just has the Germans didn't.
Problems really started at independence when elections where organised. The ruling classes of Tutsis were replaced by the Hutus (just by pure democratic number since there were more Hutus) who saw there change to revenge for the centuries of repression. ...
2007-01-21 06:22:40 · answer #2 · answered by Rik 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
a genocide is something you never can accept and also let us not forget the 10 para's that where killed there in doing there duty.
Putting the blame on King Leopold is all to easy because that conflict is already going longtime before the colonization
2007-01-21 06:49:16 · answer #3 · answered by general De Witte 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋