A Preventable Genocide

The colonization of Rwanda by Germany in 1884 set the stage for an influx of governmental and social disparity after the revolution of 1959. The violence that would erupt between the larger Hutu nationality, and the smaller Tutsi group in 1994 would become what many would describe as the worst genocide since the Holocaust, and could have been directly avoided if there had been a deeper involvement on both the behalf of International Organizations such as the United Nations, and recognition of the conflict from so called first world powers. In the absence of aid however over 800,000 Rwandan citizens were massacred.