The Ten Stages Of Genocide In Rwanda

“For the dead and the living we must bear witness !” This quote is clearly stating that we must know how it was in the past and how it is now and learn from those who have passed away to modify the way we live today so we do not repeat the foolishness . Genocide is one of those crimes that should be prevented . Genocide affected our world in so many different ways the hundreds of thousands of lives taken in Rwandan left a huge mark on the world and moved us a little bit closer to making sure it never happens again . Genocide not only affected the world but our economy as well. Rwandan Genocide wiped out a third of the country’s work force . There was a very high number of orphaned children , children who were not sent to school , the
Genocide had no intent to destroy An entire group . Genocide is defined as “ The deliberate killing of a large group of people , especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation .”Genocide was a horrible crime and the things they did to people were sickening to the stomach . Genocide even had a whole entire setup to hurt and kill people , That setup was called the 10 stages of Genocide . The 10 stages of genocide are classifications which are Ethnicity , Race , Religion , Nationality , Symbolization , Discrimination , Dehumanization , Organization , Polarization , Pre-peration , Persecution , Extermination and Denial . All 10 Of those stages were stages used to hurt , Seperate and Erase all of those innocent people . Some of the things they did were Terrible , Stomach upsetting down to digging graves , burying bodies to cover up the evidence but still keeping their hair for “ Memories “ .
Questions being asked to this day , Why did people commit genocide ? . I feel as though there are three reasons . Hatred , Hating one another regardless of of the color of your skin , down to Your ethnicity , down to Your Religion , even down to the color of your eyes and hair
What was more horrible is how it was done . Know one and I do mean know one should have ever had to go through and expirence that , But it’s history and it did occur and not only is it mind bobbling but it’s something i would hope never happens again in life . I Will always believe that the world could have been better if Genocide was prevented and i Hope You can Read my Essay and Understand why down to the big amounts of Lives being taken , Down to the hatred They had built up inside of them after that mass murder had “ended”. Genocide will never be forgotten but we deffiently Have to move forward or at least try