Whereas the Tutsi’s were favored by the Belgian and lived a better life. I think the Hutus were jealous of what the Tusi people had and the Hutu wanted the power and maybe even the respect that the Belgian’s were giving the Tutsi people. The Hutu, even though they made up most of the population, were not on the same level as the Tutsi people. “Tutsi’s were also taller and lighter skinned so the Belgians believed they were of Caucasian decent, therefore making them “better” than the Hutu people” (The Role of Belgian …show more content…
The Hutu Power was created by the Hutu Rightwing Extremists in Rwanda. “The Commandments called for the supremacy of Hutus in Rwanda, calling for exclusive Hutu leadership over Rwanda’s public institutions and public life, complete segregation of Hutus from Tutsi’s” (Hutu Power). This ideology basically separated the Tutsi and the Hutus people from interacting at all, and calling the Tutsi people the