sources say that the Rwandan genocide should be renamed “The genocide against the Tutsi” because not both groups were affected. The mass killing took place in Rwanda‚ located in Africa near the equator. It is one of the most populated countries in Africa‚ and is also one of the poorest countries in the world. The feud started because Rwanda was under the Belgian administration and the Tutsi were being treated better than the Hutu people were (Longman 2-3). In Rwanda two people lived. The Hutu occupied
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Can the World Resolve the Problem of Genocide? Genocide is a human choice. It is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Genocide is the result of hate‚ prejudices‚ hate language and the individuals or society’s choice to do nothing. After the devastating horrors of the Holocaust were exposed‚ the slogan of the time by the United Nations became “never again” (document B).The knowledge of the atrocities done to the Jewish people
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1994‚ there were roughly 1 million Rwandans murdered in the span of 100 days. This was a genocide brought on by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana. The president was a “hutu‚” and it was the hutu’s that caused most of the violence within this genocide. That left the Tutsi rebel group‚ being the most Rwandans murdered. The death of the president was not the only cause of this heinous genocide; there were many other underlying reasons as to why 1 million people lost their lives in
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How has the environment of Zaire been affected by the refugees of the Rwandan genocide? The mass movement of about 2 million Rwandan refugees to Zaire occurred in 1994. The refugees moved not only to Zaire‚ but they also moved to Burundi‚ Tanzania and Uganda. Kivu‚ where the majority of the Rwandan refugees were located‚ was already the most overpopulated region in Zaire. After the refugees moved in‚ the population was estimated at 8 million‚ nearly 2 million more than the earlier population. Moreover
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Imagine driving down a road in the hilly countryside of Rwanda. On one side of the road there are banana trees‚ and on the other side lush green grass that fills the hills along the side of the road. This road leads to a tiny town where kids run up to a car and say‚ “muzungo” which means foreigner in Kinyarwanda. Now imagine just twenty-two years earlier‚ this same road is filled with bodies lying on the side of the road while straight ahead walking down this road with machetes and rifles are members
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A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group. And in this case the Hutus’ target were the Tutsis. They were of the same language. They practiced the same cultural traditions. They were of the same race. The only difference was power. And that’s what drove the genocide. When the Europeans helped colonize Rwanda‚ they gave the more powerful positions‚ like jobs in the government‚ to the Tutsis. One of the few high ranking spots that
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of this paper are to access the causes of the war in Rwanda that started in 1990 and ended in 1994 and to access the causes of the genocide‚ an important part of this war. I shall access the extent to which ethnic identity and cultural identity are causes of the war and genocide. Firstly I shall present a brief summary of when the war broke out and what happened over the following 4 years. I shall and then take a look at how the history of Rwanda and especially the colonial rule and revolution created
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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
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Rwandan genocide. In the past Rwanda had been a Belgian state. The Belgians had favored the Tutsi minority due to their European appearance. At initially‚ bolstered by the Belgians‚ the Tutsis had controlled Rwanda. Be that as it may‚ somewhere around 1959 and 1962 the Hutu’s revolted and beat the Tutsi government. The minority Tutsis had then been dealt with term oil therefore. In 1990 a revolt bunch made principally out of Tutsis situated in neighboring Uganda attacked northern Rwanda. The common
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in times of conflict for the advancement of military and political agenda. This was not different in former Yugoslavia and the Rwanda genocide of 1994. In the former state of Yugoslavia women were targeted while at the same time being forced to witness other crimes like murder being committed as part of a system of planned criminal activities. During the 1994 genocide‚ Rwandan women were subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale‚ perpetrated by members of the infamous Hutu militia groups
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