Rwanda's Struggle for Independence

So today is my last post for this project and tomorrow our group is giving a brief presentation on how Rwanda gained it’s independence. I found a few good websites and learned a lot about Rwanda’s struggle for independence. By 1957 Rwanda was struggling towards colonial independence. That year the Hutu formed political parties and issued a proposal as an attempt to change Rwanda’s power structure. Hutu political parties won the election of 1960 making Grégoire Kayibanda the prime minister. Since the Hutu always had conflicts with the Tutsi, they finally decided to get revenge. This is believed to have been one of the main causes of the genocide. In early1961 Rwanda became a republic and on July 1^st 1962 the Belgians finally renounced their power and granted Rwanda its independence. Rwanda’s independence changed everything. The Hutu took over Rwanda and the Tutsi dominated the Burundi’s post-independence governments. From then on, racial fighting between the two countries began and lasted for few decades. 

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/rwanda.htm

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/Genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm