The colonizers deemed themselves superior to Africans, designating Tutsis, with physical features closer to Europeans, as the "superior race" and enlisting them as proxies for governance.

Minute differences, such as the length and width of the nose, were perceived by Western anthropologists as ethnic markers.

Employing the ruse of racial classification, the colonizers shattered the longstanding harmony between the two ethnic groups.

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