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When I traveled to Rwanda in April, what struck me was how the streets of Kigali remain so amazingly clean. Many of the dirt sidewalks were swept clean. Each sidewalk devoid of trash. Remarkable.
It's as though the country wants to erase anything messy or unclean after going through such a horrific, bloody conflict 14 years ago.
Rwandans-both victims and perpetrators-of the genocide live side-by-side. Many seem to have found a way to grow past the pain.
And then, every few months, a reminder of the genocide pops up.
Originally posted by Bruiex
it is the constant of the White,Arab and Asian use of Germs,Guns and Steel along with Lies, Hatred and Nepotism to War upon each other and any one they consider "Weak".
Originally posted by antar
insultingly making comments that the families of the victims needed to begin putting this all behind them and to allow the healing process to happen, but for me it was as shocking a suggestion as the tragedy itself that fateful September morning.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Then came the Belgians, claiming that Rwanda "belonged" to them. It had so been "decided" in Europe. The Tutsi, of course, would have none of that. They said: "No thanks, we will keep our independence".
Angered by the Tutsi wanting their sovereignty Belgium then secretly teamed up with the Hutu and said to them: Do you want a revolution? Belgium equipped them with anti-tutsi propaganda and heavily armed them.
Ever since then, the Hutu and Tutsi are enganged in mass-slaughtering each other, in genocide and constant bloodshed of millions.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
It used to be mostly the whites but at current its also the Arabs and Chinese who have gotten "a hang of the game".
The mass-media needs to start looking at where exactly the weapons are delivered from.
All those African Parents cannot afford to give their children weapons and training in murder. The msm needs to look into who is providing that training.
The msm needs to look into how much profit the african is making from diamonds and gold (almost none) and how much the chinese or arab is making.
When providing "aid" this must not be done in terms of money anymore.
Giving money is utterly useless and pointless. It must be done, for example, in terms of building water-sources or by handing out pencils and paper or by education.
A populace that has to walk many miles looking for water everyday, cannot possibly become a productive and prosperous society.
Originally posted by Allegory of Illumination
ONE QUESTION: What is the time period that the Belgians came over trying to obtain the land???
Thank you for such an informational and detailed side of the UNTOLD story.
Many people such as myself aren't as informed on such topics as much as we should be.
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In 1916, during World War I, Belgian forces advanced from the Congo into Germany's East African colonies. After Germany lost the War, Belgium accepted the League of Nations Mandate of 1923 to govern Ruanda-Urundi along with the Congo, while Great Britain accepted Tanganyika and other German colonies
Originally posted by Skyfloating
The nation Rwanda had been living in peace and relative prosperity since hundreds of years. The Hutu and Tutsi lived side by side.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Admittedly they had a sort of caste system with the Tutsi ruling and the Hutu farming, but it somehow worked....and the Hutu had the chance to "climb the ranks" to become Tutsi if they acquired cattle.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Then came the Belgians, claiming that Rwanda "belonged" to them. It had so been "decided" in Europe. The Tutsi, of course, would have none of that. They said: "No thanks, we will keep our independence".
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Angered by the Tutsi wanting their sovereignty Belgium then secretly teamed up with the Hutu and said to them: Do you want a revolution? Belgium equipped them with anti-tutsi propaganda and heavily armed them.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Whats so disgusting is that the msm and our "education" portrays the endless Rwandan wars as the result of "tribalism" rather than showing where the
Originally posted by Skyfloating
a) original motivation for war came from (in this case Germany and Belgium)
Originally posted by Skyfloating
b) weapons came from (Belgium)
Originally posted by Skyfloating
This was not the first or last time the dumb control-freaks of our white race have set up one tribe against another. I hope to post more examples and hope to hear examples from other posters.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Back in the day, before full-fledged colonization swept in, Europeans would stop at the costs of entire Africa. They wouldnt venture further into Africa because of the harsh conditions of the unknown territory.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
What they found was the richest continent in the world. And what they did was pillage it. Rob it. Suck everything out of it they could.
Africa is in fact so rich in resources, that they havent stopped pillaging to this very day.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
The rightful inhabitants of the country were natural people, not idiots, but simply not interested in exploiting those resources.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Nevertheless the whites, in their insatiable greed, deemed it necessary to enslave those people, deport them or plot one tribe against the other.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
The main means of plotting one tribe against another was to artificially create countries and borders that were completely at odds with the natural borders they had been living with since thousands of years.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Suddenly two tribes that normally went out of each others way, were forced to govern together...
In fact, in the sixth century AD, Cosmas Indicopleustes of Alexandria13 referred to gold acquired by trade with southeast Africa (where "winter occurred during northern hemisphere summer"); so did Masudi and Ibn Al Wardy in the tenth century - when it was apparently being exported from an Arab trading post at Sofala (on the coast, east of the Zimbabwe Ruins: the modern resort there still carries the old name). That gold could easily have been first detected in alluvial mud at the mouth of the Zambezi river, and perhaps also in the Sabi.