The movie Hotel Rwanda showed the struggles of being a Tutsi citizen during the time of the Rwandan Civil War. The violence began when a plane carrying President Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down. The war started almost immidietly. Targeting all Tutsi citizens. If you were a Hutu you were in agriculture. If you were a Tutsi, you had cattle. If you wanted to change to farming to herding, you changed from Hutu to Tutsi.
Symbolization
Hutu extremists launched their plans to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. If anyone was suspected of being a Tutsi, their house was immidetly burned down and their families were killed. Entire families were being killed at a time. The tutsies were refered to as cockroaches throughout the whole civil war. The Rwandan genocide resulted from the deliberate choice of the elite to promote hatred and fear to keep itself in power.