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ous pygmies who had originally occupied the area. The Hutus were a subject of forced labor while. They were well know agriculturalists as they grew crops. On the other hand, the Tutsis were traditionally herdsmen and the two ethnic groups had coexisted from time to time through the farming business (The United Human Rights Council, 2013). Their cultures had also been shared through languages, and also intermarriages played a significant role in merging the two cultures. However, due to the nature of the Tutsis as pastoralists, they were more of landowners with the Hutus working on their lands. This labor division was perpetuated a balance in population where the Hutus basically outnumbered the Tutsis. To the colonialists, they wanted people who could act as intercessors between the governor and the governed, and that select group was the Tutsis (The United Human Rights Council, 2013).

This is because the Tutsis were landowners, tall and they also had the aristocratic gait. They were given education and other privileges along with that in order that they remained loyal to the colonialists. This was the strategy used by the colonialists. The introduction of such distinction in terms of class unsettled Rwandan stability. To the Hutus, they felt being treated like mere peasants, the Tutsis on the other hand started behaving like aristocrats and that gave birth to strange political divide. Rwanda currently has two main tribes – Hutu and Tutsi. However, since the coming into power of Paul Kagame as the President of Rwanda, there has been constant reconciliation between the two tribes with Kagame maintaining that Rwanda is one and all citizens and Rwandans. The talk concerning one tribe or the other is not taken lightly and people would rather keep quiet than raise the issue of tribe (The United Human Rights Council, 2013).

The prelude to the 1994 genocide was characterized by the Hutu beginning talking up the need for attacking Tutsis. President Juvenal Habiyarimana himself a Hutu, disappointed his supporters when he started negotiating with the Tutsi-led rebel group RPF contrary to the wishes of the Hutus who wanted the Tutsis wiped out of Rwanda. This was as a result of the hatred the colonialists had planted in them (Peace Pledge Union, n.d.). The Hutus suffered from inferiority complex as they were always the subjects of the Tutsis and the less educated. The killing of president Habyarimana accelerated the desire the Hutus wanted toward the Tutsis. They had wanted to get even with the Tutsis. After the death of the president, radio broadcasts encouraged the people to do what they had to do. They were to seek the Tutsis and their sympathizers who lived among them (Peace Pledge Union, n.d.).

The president died on April 6, 1994 and the Hutus began the killing of Tutsis. The Hutus were going to work and the message spread among the Hutus was that the cockroaches had to be wiped out. The most notorious media tool used to spread the message of war was the Radio Televison des Milles Collines (RTLM). The massacre was based on women, children, and the even the unborn in the wombs as strategy for thoroughness in executing the act. No generation was to come out of the Tutsis. The bloodletting moved from April through to July. The predominantly used tool for massacre was the machete the tool for agricultural tilling. The most peaceful of the tools that hitherto had been used for agricultural uses turned out