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Originally Posted by burgundia
i bet African problems had been much less serious before the whites got there. They still are manipulating people there...remember the genocide in Rwanda? UN didn't send troops there to stop it but soldiers went to Iraq to fight fot human rights....ridiculous, isn't it
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If this is an example of "problems before the whites got there"...it's no comparision. Rwanda was an ethic battle within the country, basically a civil war.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1288230.stm?lss
"Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.
Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus.
Ethnic tension in Rwanda is nothing new. There have been always been disagreements between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis, but the animosity between them has grown substantially since the colonial period.
1994: RWANDA'S GENOCIDE
The two ethnic groups are actually very similar - they speak the same language, inhabit the same areas and follow the same traditions. "