28-622: [REDACTED] Look up ru or रु in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ru , ru , or RU may refer to: Russia [ edit ] Russia (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code) Russian language (ISO 639 alpha-2 code) .ru , the Internet country code top-level domain for Russia China [ edit ] Rù (入), the entering tone in Chinese language phonetics Rú (儒),
56-1851: A Chinese language term for Confucianism Ru (surname) (茹), a Chinese surname Ru River (汝), in Henan, China Ru ware , a type of Chinese pottery Educational institutions [ edit ] Rajasthan University in Rajasthan, India Radboud University Nijmegen , in Nijmegen, Netherlands Radford University , in Virginia, USA Rai University in Gujarat, India Rajshahi University in Bangladesh Rama University in India Ramkhamhaeng University in Thailand Regis University in Colorado, USA Reykjavík University Iceland Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa Rockefeller University in New York, USA Rockhurst University in Missouri, USA Roosevelt University in Chicago, Illinois, USA Rowan University in New Jersey, USA Ruse University in Bulgaria Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA Ryerson University ,
84-460: A Nazi designation for concentration camp prisoners who were forbidden to be released RuPaul , an American drag queen, actor, and television personality Rugby union See also [ edit ] Rew (disambiguation) Rewe (disambiguation) Roo (disambiguation) Rou (disambiguation) Rue (disambiguation) Ruu Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
112-548: A mandate was theoretically subject to international oversight through the League's Permanent Mandates Commission (PMC) in Geneva , Switzerland . Administratively, the mandate was divided into two pays , Ruanda and Urundi, each under the nominal leadership of a Mwami . The city of Usumbura and its adjoining townships were classified separately as centres extra‑coutumiers , while the pays were subdivided into territories. After
140-582: A period of inertia, the Belgian administration became actively involved in Ruanda-Urundi between 1926 and 1931 under the governorship of Charles Voisin . The reforms produced a dense road-network and improved agriculture, with the emergence of cash crop farming in cotton and coffee . However, four major famines did ravage parts of the mandate after crop failures in 1916–1918 , 1924–26 , 1928–30 and 1943–44 . The Belgians were far more involved in
168-684: The Belgian Congo around Lakes Kivu and Tanganyika . As part of the Allied East African campaign , Ruanda and Urundi were invaded by a Belgian force in 1916. German forces in the region were small and hugely outnumbered. Ruanda was occupied over April–May and Urundi in June 1916. By September, a large portion of German East Africa was under Belgian occupation reaching as far south as Kigoma and Karema and as far eastwards as Tabora all in modern-day Tanzania. In Ruanda and Urundi,
196-554: The Republic of Burundi . Ruanda-Urundi was initially administered by a Royal Commissioner ( commissaire royal ) until the administrative union with the Belgian Congo in 1926. After this, the mandate was administered by a Governor ( gouverneur ) located at Usumbura (modern-day Bujumbura) who also held the title of Vice-Governor-General ( vice-gouverneur général ) of the Belgian Congo. Ruanda and Urundi were each administered by
224-996: The Spanish name of the United Kingdom Royaume-Uni , the French name of the United Kingdom Regno Unito , the Italian name of the United Kingdom Ru (kana) , the romanisation of the Japanese kana る and ル Ru (cuneiform) , a sign in cuneiform writing Ru (novel) , a novel by Canadian novelist Kim Thúy Ru (film) , a film by Canadian director Charles-Olivier Michaud based on Kim Thúy's novel Ruanda-Urundi , former German and Belgian colony (today Rwanda and Burundi) Rückkehr unerwünscht "return unwanted",
252-726: The Belgian Congo in the late 1950s and the Belgian Government became convinced they could no longer control the territory. Unrest also broke out in Ruanda where the monarchy was deposed in the Rwandan Revolution (1959–1961). Grégoire Kayibanda led the dominant and ethnically defined Party of the Hutu Emancipation Movement ( Parti du Mouvement de l'Emancipation Hutu , PARMEHUTU) in Rwanda while
280-511: The Belgians were welcomed by some civilians, who were opposed to the autocratic behaviour of the kings. In Urundi, much of the population fled or went into hiding, fearful of war. Much of the Swahili trader community which resided along the shores of Lake Tanganyika fled towards Kigoma, as they had long been commercial rivals with Belgian traders and feared retribution. The territory captured
308-590: The German policy of indirect rule , with the Ruandan king ( mwami ) Yuhi V Musinga using German support to consolidate his control over subordinate chiefs in exchange for labour and resources. World War I broke out in 1914. German colonies were originally meant to preserve their neutrality as mandated in the Berlin Convention , but fighting soon broke out on the frontier between German East Africa and
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#1732772174685336-541: The Ruandans and Urundians during the war, this was limited since the German administration considered sustaining a local labour force logistically challenging. The Belgian occupation force expanded labor conscription; 20,000 men were drafted act as porters for the Mahenge offensive , and of these only one-third returned home. Many died due to malnourishment and disease. The new labour practices caused some locals to regret
364-914: The Rwandan population in consequence. An elite secondary school, the Groupe Scolaire d'Astrida , was established in 1929 but as late as 1961, shortly before independence arrived, fewer than 100 Africans had been educated beyond the secondary level.The policy was one of low-cost paternalism, as explained by Belgium's special representative to the Trusteeship Council: "The real work is to change the African in his essence, to transform his soul, [and] to do that one must love him and enjoy having daily contact with him. He must be cured of his thoughtlessness, he must accustom himself to living in society, he must overcome his inertia." The League of Nations
392-527: The Tutsi elite rather than the distant colonial power. Musinga was deposed by the administration as mwami of Ruanda in November 1931 after being accused of disloyalty. He was replaced by his son Mutara III Rudahigwa . Although promising the League it would promote education, Belgium left the task to subsidised Catholic missions and mostly unsubsidised Protestant missions. Catholicism expanded rapidly through
420-687: The aftermath of World War II and the dissolution of the League. In 1962 Ruanda-Urundi became the two independent states of Rwanda and Burundi . Ruanda and Urundi were two separate kingdoms in the Great Lakes region before the Scramble for Africa . In 1897, the German Empire established a presence in Rwanda with the formation of an alliance with the king, beginning the colonial era. They were administered as two districts of German East Africa . The two monarchies were retained as part of
448-769: The departure of the Germans. The Treaty of Versailles in the aftermath of World War I divided the German colonial empire among the Allied nations. German East Africa was partitioned, with Tanganyika allocated to the British and a small area allocated to Portugal . Belgium was allocated Ruanda-Urundi even though this represented only a fraction of the territories already occupied by the Belgian forces in East Africa. Belgian diplomats had originally hoped that Belgian claims in
476-591: The equivalent Union for National Progress ( Union pour le Progrès national , UPRONA) in Burundi attempted to balance competing Hutu and Tutsi ethnic claims. The independence of the Belgian Congo in June 1960 and the accompanying period of political instability further drove nationalism in Ruanda-Urundi and the assassination of the UPRONA leader Louis Rwagasore , also Burundi's crown prince, in October 1961 did not halt
504-422: The extensive cultivation of coffee in the region's rich volcanic soils. To implement their vision, the Belgians extended and consolidated a power structure based on indigenous institutions. In practice, they developed a Tutsi ruling class to formally control a mostly Hutu population, through the system of chiefs and sub-chiefs under the overall rule of the two Mwami . Belgian administrators were influenced by
532-653: The former name of Toronto Metropolitan University in Ontario, Canada Science and technology [ edit ] Resource Unit , a unit used in 802.11 wireless Rack unit , a measurement of the height of electronic equipment commonly installed in 19-inch racks Ruthenium , symbol Ru, a chemical element The "backwards-R U" Recognized Component Mark of Underwriters Laboratories Transport [ edit ] AirBridge Cargo (IATA airline code) Renigunta Junction railway station (Indian Railways station code) Other uses [ edit ] Reino Unido ,
560-518: The movement. After hurried preparations which included the dissolution of the monarchy in the Kingdom of Rwanda in September 1961, Ruanda-Urundi became independent on 1 July 1962, broken up along traditional lines as the independent Republic of Rwanda and Kingdom of Burundi . It took two more years before the government of the two became wholly separate and two other years until the proclamation of
588-646: The region could be traded for Portuguese territory in Angola to expand the Congo's access to the Atlantic Ocean but this proved impossible. The League of Nations officially awarded Ruanda-Urundi to Belgium as a B-Class Mandate on 20 July 1922. The mandatory regime was also controversial in Belgium and it was not approved by Belgium's parliament until 1924. Unlike colonies which belonged to its colonial power,
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#1732772174685616-462: The so-called Hamitic hypothesis which suggested that the Tutsi were partially descended from a Semitic people and were therefore inherently superior to the Hutu who were seen as purely African. In this context, the Belgian administration preferred to rule through purely Tutsi authorities therefore further stratifying the society on ethnic lines. Hutu anger at the Tutsi domination was largely focused on
644-416: The territory than the Germans, especially in Ruanda. Despite the mandate rules that the Belgians had to develop the territories and prepare them for independence, the economic policy practised in the Belgian Congo was exported eastwards: the Belgians demanded that the territories earn profits for their country and that any development must come out of funds gathered in the territory. These funds mostly came from
672-696: The title Ru . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ru&oldid=1258787897 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages ru">ru The requested page title contains unsupported characters : ">". Return to Main Page . Ruanda-Urundi Ruanda-Urundi ( French pronunciation: [ʁwɑ̃da uʁundi] ), later Rwanda-Burundi ,
700-592: Was formally dissolved in April 1946, following its failure to prevent World War II. It was succeeded, for practical purposes, by the new United Nations (UN). In December 1946, the new body voted to end the mandate over Ruanda-Urundi and replace it with the new status of " Trust Territory ". To provide oversight, the PMC was superseded by the United Nations Trusteeship Council . The transition
728-634: Was a geopolitical entity, once part of German East Africa , that was occupied by troops from the Belgian Congo during the East African campaign in World War I and was administered by Belgium under military occupation from 1916 to 1922. It was subsequently awarded to Belgium as a Class-B Mandate under the League of Nations in 1922 and became a Trust Territory of the United Nations in
756-433: Was accompanied by a promise that the Belgians would prepare the territory for independence, but the Belgians felt the area would take many decades to be ready for self-rule and wanted the process to take enough time before happening. In 1961 the Belgian administration officially renamed Ruanda-Urundi as Rwanda-Burundi. Independence came largely as a result of actions elsewhere. African anti-colonial nationalism emerged in
784-529: Was administered by a Belgian military occupation authority ("Belgian Occupied East African Territories") pending an ultimate decision about its political future. An administration, headed by a Royal Commissioner, was established in February 1917 at the same time as Belgian forces were ordered to withdraw from the Tabora region by the British. While the Germans had begun the practice of conscripting labour from
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