Reconciliation During The Rwandan Genocide

More than 1, 000, 000 people died during the Rwandan genocide and the South African Apartheid. The Belgian colonizers divided Rwanda into different ethnic groups in 1890s. The Rwandan Genocide was an event in which Hutus tried to exterminate the Tutsis, which were a different ethnic group. Genocide refers to the deliberate killing of a large specific group of people. The South African Apartheid was an event in which black South Africans were discriminated and treated differently than white South Africans in South Africa. Apartheid means “separateness” in Afrikaans. In this case it was the segregation of blacks and whites in South Africa. Reconciliation is defined as the restoration of friendly relationships. After conflicts such as these reconciliation
Amnesty is most effective when it is the result of a negotiation for example “the 2002 ceasefire agreement between the Angolan government army and the military commanders of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (União Nacional para a Independencia Total de Angola, UNITA) included the promise of amnesty for former UNITA rebels: a few days before the official signing of the agreement the Angolan Parliament passed an amnesty law. The Nicaraguan “general amnesty and national reconciliation law” of March 1990 was the result of negotiations between the Sandinista government and opposition parties.” (IDEA) When amnesty is the result of a negotiation it is more accepted and less controversial than when amnesty is enforced. People are likely to trust things when they have a choice in these decisions. This type of reciprocal amnesty is more accepted because there is mutual gain and when reciprocal amnesty occurs it is a step towards reconciliation. Many cases Amnesty is a good strategy of reconciliation because of the opportunity it gives others. Nkundiye had a chance of starting again because he was granted amnesty. He learned how to collaborate, forgive and be a unit again in the reconciliation villages after the Rwandan Genocide. Amnesty was a good reconciliation strategy for
The Rwandan villages allowed Rwandans to have physical unity that lead to full unity between people. The World Cup made South Africans unite and accept each other to cheer for the Springboks. Amnesty could be an effective strategy if it comes as a result of a negotiation, however it can also give the wrong message to people by implementing dismissal and acceptance of the crime. Reconciliation is a difficult, but necessary process to go through after any conflict because it brings peace and unity to both parties. Reconciliation is a process that has been used throughout history to form the world we live in today. The process of reconciliation makes people grow as individuals as collectively within a community; it is not a process an individual can accomplish alone, however it is a process that requires cooperation and collaboration. Unity, forgiveness and trust are essential factors for reconciliation to be possible. Reconciliation is a long process that is possible with the cooperation of both parties, especially if trust, unity and forgiveness are factors involved in the