As the population grew, the amount of land available for subsistence farming decreased dramatically, leaving many people landless and unemployed. As a result of this loss of land, Hutu leaders were more easily able to persuade the Hutu people to kill the Tutsi, and reclaim their lands. The loss of land was detrimental to the people living there. Losing land meant that not only did you lose your place to live, but you also lost your chief way of providing sustenance to your family. The Hutu leaders easily able to persuade their constituents that the Tutsi were to blame for the Hutu losing their land. Another way of Hutu government persuaded the Hutu that the Tutsi should be eliminated, was by pointing to vast tracts of land which had been freed up for Hutu settlement and cultivation; which was taken from the Tutsi in the 1960’s and
As the population grew, the amount of land available for subsistence farming decreased dramatically, leaving many people landless and unemployed. As a result of this loss of land, Hutu leaders were more easily able to persuade the Hutu people to kill the Tutsi, and reclaim their lands. The loss of land was detrimental to the people living there. Losing land meant that not only did you lose your place to live, but you also lost your chief way of providing sustenance to your family. The Hutu leaders easily able to persuade their constituents that the Tutsi were to blame for the Hutu losing their land. Another way of Hutu government persuaded the Hutu that the Tutsi should be eliminated, was by pointing to vast tracts of land which had been freed up for Hutu settlement and cultivation; which was taken from the Tutsi in the 1960’s and