WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Passports
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Driver’s Licenses
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Mao’s Little Red Book
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Identification Cards
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Detailed explanation-1: -Identity cards became an important tool during the genocide, because they were an easy way to identify Tutsi. Since every Rwandan was re quired to carry an identity card, people who guarded barricades de manded that everyone show their cards before being allowed to pass.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rwanda started developing its modern ID system in the late 2000s with the enactment of the law governing the registration of the population and issuance of the national ID card in 2008. This law introduced two types of ID cards.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1932, Belgium introduced identity cards stating the ethnicity of the bearer. Tutsi control ended in 1957 when the Catholic Church and the colonial authorities helped Hutu elites take power. The overthrow was violent. Tutsis were massacred, and thousands forced into exile.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1919, Belgium inherited the colony as part of a League of Nations mandate, which partitioned German territories after World War I. Belgian colonizers initiated more direct control in Rwanda maintaining an existing political system, which allowed native monarchs to rule over the local populous.