The Stolen Generation And Genocide In Rwanda
A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Stolen Generations and genocide in Rwanda were both terrible and horrific but differ in who the perpetrators were, what the end goal was, and how it was resolved.
Every genocide is committed by a person or group of people, whether it be the government, different tribes, different races, different religions, etc. The genocide in Rwanda was started by extremists of Rwanda’s majority, Hutu. They planned to kill the minority, Tutsi, or anyone who opposed their genocidal intentions. In the article Rwanda Genocide: 100 days of slaughter, it says “About 85% of Rwandans are Hutus but the Tutsi minority has long dominated the country”. The genocide in Australia, known as the Stolen Generations began when “half-caste” children were forcibly removed …show more content…
In three generations, they thought, Aboriginal genes would have been ‘bred out’ when Aboriginal people had children with white people”. An important factor to learning and understanding genocides is knowing who started it.
When it comes to genocides, there must be a reason people commit these terrible acts and a goal they have for them. It was April 6th 1994 when the plane carrying the president at the time, Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira who were both Hutus, was shot down and killed everyone on board. Hutu extremists believed the Rwandan Patriotic Front was to blame and that was how the killing of the Tutsi minority began. The Hutu extremists goal for this genocide was to kill all of the Tutsi minority and anybody against the genocide. They did this by broadcasting hate propaganda telling people to “weed out the cockroaches” on radio stations and newspapers. Overall about 800,000 people were killed. The
Every genocide is committed by a person or group of people, whether it be the government, different tribes, different races, different religions, etc. The genocide in Rwanda was started by extremists of Rwanda’s majority, Hutu. They planned to kill the minority, Tutsi, or anyone who opposed their genocidal intentions. In the article Rwanda Genocide: 100 days of slaughter, it says “About 85% of Rwandans are Hutus but the Tutsi minority has long dominated the country”. The genocide in Australia, known as the Stolen Generations began when “half-caste” children were forcibly removed …show more content…
In three generations, they thought, Aboriginal genes would have been ‘bred out’ when Aboriginal people had children with white people”. An important factor to learning and understanding genocides is knowing who started it.
When it comes to genocides, there must be a reason people commit these terrible acts and a goal they have for them. It was April 6th 1994 when the plane carrying the president at the time, Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira who were both Hutus, was shot down and killed everyone on board. Hutu extremists believed the Rwandan Patriotic Front was to blame and that was how the killing of the Tutsi minority began. The Hutu extremists goal for this genocide was to kill all of the Tutsi minority and anybody against the genocide. They did this by broadcasting hate propaganda telling people to “weed out the cockroaches” on radio stations and newspapers. Overall about 800,000 people were killed. The