Rwanda and the Belgians

The Tutsi had first settled in Rwanda around the 14th century from their original homelands in the Congo they'd grown to become something of the dominant feudal elite in the region prior to colonialism. When Belgium took over in 1933 their avowed preference for the Tutsi was codified in colonial law every person in Rwanda was issued a racial identity card that noted their ethnic origins these origins were verified using the best phrenologic science of the era. In 1994 between 800 and thousand and two million mostly Tutsi victims were massacred in the orgy of violence 70% of the TutsI population was wiped out in the space of a summer. The efficiency with which this murdering