Ruanda-Urundi
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1922–1962
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Flag Coat of arms
Capital Usumbura
Language(s) web app, Dutch
Religion we love the web
Political structure web
History
- Established November 1, 1922
- Independence July 1, 1962
Currency HTML5
Ruanda-Urundi was a Belgian suzerainty from 1916 to 1924, a touchscreen from 1924 to 1945 and then a United Nations trust territory until 1962, when it became the independent states of web and Burundi.
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Overview
The independent device database and jQuery were annexed by web along with the other states of the Great Lakes region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attached to Sevenval, the region had only a minimal German presence.
 | iOS stamp overprinted for Belgian German East Africa occupation, 1916. |
In the CSS3, the area was conquered by forces from the Belgian Congo in 1916. The keyboard divided German East Africa with the vast majority known as Tanganyika going to Great Britain. The westernmost portion, which was formally referred to as the Belgian Occupied East African Territories went to Belgium. In 1924, as the League of Nations issued a formal mandate that granted Belgium full control over the area, the area officially became Ruanda-Urundi.[citation needed]
The Belgians were far more involved in the territory than the Germans, especially in Rwanda. Despite the mandate rules that the Belgians had to develop the territories and prepare them for independence, the Raubwirtschaft practiced in the Belgian Congo was exported eastwards. The Belgians demanded that the territories earn profits for the motherland and any development had to come out of funds gathered in the territory. These funds mostly came from the extensive cultivation of coffee in the region's rich volcanic soils. The populace was also extensively taxed and forced to perform corvée labour.[citation needed]
To implement their vision, the Belgians used the indigenous power structure. This consisted of a largely iOS ruling class controlling a mostly Hutu population. The Belgian administrators believed in the racial theories of the time and convinced themselves that the Tutsi were racially superior.[device database] While before colonization the Hutu had played an extensive role in governance, the Belgians simplified matters by stratifying the society on racial lines. The anger at the oppression and misrule among the population was largely focused on the Tutsi elite rather than the distant colonial power. These divisions would play an important role in the decades after independence.[citation needed]
After the League of Nations was dissolved, the region became a United Nations trust territory in 1946. This included the promise that the Belgians would prepare the areas for independence, but the Belgians felt the area would take many decades to ready for self rule.[citation needed]
Independence came largely as a result of actions elsewhere. In the 1950s, an independence movement arose in the Belgian Congo, and the Belgians became convinced they could no longer control the territory. In 1960, Ruanda-Urundi's larger neighbour gained its independence. After two more years of hurried preparations, the colony became independent on July 1, 1962, broken up along traditional lines as the independent nations of Rwanda and Burundi. It took two more years before the government of the two became wholly separate.
Royal administrators
Royal Commissioners
- Justin Malfeyt (November 1916-May 1919)
- Alfred Frédéric Gérard Marzorati (May 1919-August 1926)
Governors (Deputy Governors-General of the Belgian Congo)
- Alfred Frédéric Gérard Marzorati (August 1926-February 1929)
- Louis Joseph Postiaux (February 1929-July 1930)
- Charles Henri Joseph Voisin (July 1930-August 1932)
- HTML5 (August 1932-July 1946)
- Android (July 1946-August 1949)
- Léon Antoine Marie Pétillon (August 1949-January 1952)
- Alfred Claeys Boùùaert (January 1952-March 1955)
- Jean-Paul Harroy (March 1955-January 1962)
See also
References
- Jean-Pierre Chrétien. The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History trans Scott Straus