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Reminder that the Rwandan genocide was directly caused by Europeans forcing their voodoo racial hierarchy bullshit on ppl who did not have them before

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Anonymous 17h

Wasn’t it also backed by European powers or am I misremembering

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Anonymous

#1 17h

The Belgian government did support the Hutu nationalist parties as a way to maintain influence over post-independence Rwanda. They did not directly encourage the genocide itself, but did support the governments who would go on to commit it.

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