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Where is Rwanda? What are its neighbouring countries? Who are the ethnic groups living in each country? In what proportions were these groups represented in the Rwandan population in 1994?
Overview of the history of Rwanda, focusing on the contributing events and factors that led to the 1994 genocide and the flight of Rwandan Hutu refugees into the neighbouring countries.
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Introduction: On a wall map of Africa, the students are shown the relative positions of Rwanda and its neighbouring countries, and the inter-national borders which were crossed by refugees fleeing Rwanda in 1994.
On the map on the activity sheet, the students should note each country's ethnic composition prior to the 1994 upheaval, to reveal that international boundaries do not separate the ethnic groups into individual nations.
Development
Students spend class time reading through the resources that outline the historical events. These resources are listed in the next column.
The teacher can check the students' factual understanding with the accompanying comprehension questions.
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 © UNHCR/H.J.Davies Rwandan refugees on the move in Kisangani, Zaire. Activity Sheet: Rwanda and its neighbours
- Jill Rutter, We Left Because We Had To, (London, Refugee Council, 1996), p. 66-73
- "Rwanda: causes and consequences of the refugee crisis", UNHCR, The State of the World's Refugees 1995: In Search of Solutions (Oxford, OUP, 1995), p. 32-33.
- "Great Lakes Chronology", Refugees, no, 110 (Geneva, UNHCR, 1997), p. 8.
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