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If [they] can find a pressure point, pressure will be applied. Take over Ukraine, then drum up a conflict. All [they] need to accomplish this is control of the media. It took a government issued ID card to distinguish a Tutsi from a Hutu in Rwanda. Then a radio station was used to incite the murder of 800,000 people:
For the most part, the two groups found a way to co-exist until 1994 when the genocide began. The economic system in Rwanda was influenced by the differing backgrounds. Hutus had land that they farmed and Tutsis owned cattle. However, this was a political divide, not a racial divide. (Carney, 12) Politics influenced the social class of the two groups and their ability to own cattle. Hutus and Tutsis lived together in communities. There were not specific villages for Hutus and specific villages for Tutsis. They were mixed in with each other and communicated with the other group. Kinyarwandan was spoken by both groups of people. “The cultural community of Kinyarwanda speakers long predated the political community framed by the state called Rwanda. Thus, we come to the point that the people called Tutsi, and those who came to be called Hutu, spoke the same language, lived on the same hills, and had more or less the same culture…” (Mamdani, 52)
There were many intermarriages among the Hutus and Tutsis. This provided a gray area for determining which group a given individual fit in. Typically, the wife took on the social class of the husband. For example, if a Tutsi woman married a Hutu man, the woman would become a Tutsi. (Notice how this didn’t hold true in the genocide in 1994, where a Tutsi woman would be killed even if her husband was a Hutu.) In the case of children, a newborn took on the social class of his/her father. A child of a Hutu man and a Tutsi woman would be a Hutu. There was no “half-and-half.” Everyone fit into one of the two distinct groups. Even after many generations of intermarriages, newborn children are always unequivocally either Hutu or Tutsi. “’There’s been so much inter-marriage over the years that you often cannot tell who’s who,’ said a presidential aid from Burundi to a Western reporter, and then added as an afterthought, ‘but everybody knows, anyway.’” (Mamdani, 54)
http://genocide.leadr.msu.edu/stories/hutus-and-tutsis/