Ethnic Cleansing is stated as the process where and geographic area tries to Bridge Ethnic Homogeneity(Anderson 2019)
The process of ethnic cleansing involves mass deportation commit displacement and genocide of the unwanted ethnic group in order to achieve their goal
Ethnic cleansing of yugoslavia and Rwanda is one of the greatest examples
- .Rwanda Is the region where Seattle community such as Hutu, Tutsi and Twa lived in harmony.
- The Twa were the earliest inhabitants of the region. And lived there since 8000 BC
- Later on the who to community migrated to the region between the 700 BC to 1500 AD
- The hutus were the first settlers followed by the Tutsi.
- During the early 1930s Belgian divided the region specified by three ethnic groups the Hutu , Twa and Tutsi
- The colonizers in the latter years restructured and reshaped the ethnic identities of the Hutu ant Tutsi community that resulted into the sharp division between the two ethnic groups and portraying of the tutsias an outside community(Simon 2019)
- This resulted into the anti—tutsipropaganda in the region
- The Rwanda Regent was initially ruled by the Tutsi community (Onuoha 2018)
- The Hutu community was considered lowered to the Tutsi community
- Initially the division between the communities were called and based on the caste system
- Tutsi community was considered to be the superior race followed by the Hutu and theTwa.
- They were colonizers wrongly defined the Tutsi community as ethnic group migrated from Ethiopia hence favoring this community more generating a ethnic rivalry
- The Belgian community favored the who to community more resulting into the idea of hutupower
- In both the ethnic cleansing process one of the major factors were played by the colonial rulers
- The World War and the economic breakdown of the region also played a very vital role
- The local ethnic rivalry and cultural differences due to non inclusion of individuals or equal treatment of every ethnic group
References
- Anderson, G.C., 2019. The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875. University of Oklahoma Press.
- Garrett, L., 2018. Rwanda: not the official narrative. The Lancet, 392(10151), pp.909-912.
- Onuoha, O., Eclipse in Rwanda as Remembering in Pyschosocial Poetics of Trauma.
- Procknow, G., 2020. Breeding hate: A case study of training for ethnic cleansing in war?torn Yugoslavia. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, 32(3), pp.54-75.
- Simon, D.J., 2020. Rwanda and the Rohingya: Learning the Wrong Lessons?. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 22(1-4), pp.199-214.
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