Batılı Koloniyel Güçlerin 1994 Ruanda Soykırımına Etkisi
Impact of Western Colonial Powers on 1994 Rwandan Genocide

Summary/Abstract: 1994 Rwandan Genocide is the second biggest genocide in the world, after the Jewish Holocaust. Approximately one million Tutsi and opponent and moderate Hutu were savagely slaughtered in a very short time span of 100 days in 1994. Rwandan Genocide targeting Tutsi people is a planned and systematic one based on ethnic segregation and hatred. Many reasons such as ethnical, political, sociological, psychological and economic ones underlie the Rwandan Genocide. Western Colonial Powers provoked ethnic identities and helped ethnic segregation to increase in Rwanda during the colonial time. The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of the Western Colonial Powers such as Belgium and France on the genocide which occurred as a consequence of the ethnic segregation created by the West and the inaction of the international community, mainly the United Nations, towards the Rwandan Genocide.

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