April 7‚ 1994 - July 1994‚ 800‚000‚ Tutsi ethnic minority was killed by the Hutu ethnic majority. Hutu extremists made anti-Tutsi propaganda implying that marrying‚ doing business‚ or being friends with the Tutsi people was considered treason. The FPR (Rwandan Patriotic Front) a Tutsi political party in Rwanda utilized guerrilla warfare tactics against the Interahamwe which was a paramilitary organization that backed the Hutu led government. The FPR’s attempts to take back Rwanda failed and after
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tribes in Rwanda‚ the Hutus and the Tutsis exploded into a full out war. Rwanda is a small country‚ so small that it’s only represented by a dot in the map of Africa. The population of Rwanda is dived into two castes: the Tutsi cattle owners and the Hutu farmers. In 1994‚ one million people were viciously murdered in the country of Rwanda. Hotel Rwanda tells the true story of Paul Rusesabagina‚ a Rwandan hotel manager caught in this bloody war. As the war becomes a place of madness.‚ Paul secretly
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Lots of things happen during the period of the genocide in Rwanda. “The transition from Tutsi to Hutu rule was not peaceful. From 1959 to 1961 some 20‚000 Tutsi were killed‚ and many more fled the country. By early 1964 at least 150‚000 Tutsi were in neighbouring countries. Additional rounds of ethnic tension and violence flared periodically and led
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Are people inherently good or evil? A Yale study attempts to answer this question by deciphering whether young babies could choose right over wrong. One of the things they did within the study was a puppet show with two characters: one a “bad guy” and the other the “good guy”. After‚ the babies were told to choose which puppet they would rather play with. Results showed that the babies chose the "good guy" over the bad. This means that people are born with the ability to know the difference between
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there were arguments about who would finance the operation. Finally the genocide came to a halt with the help of an exiled group of Tutsi rebels known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The RPF returned to Rwanda and ended the killings and took down the Hutu government. The genocide was over and 800‚000 Tutsis had lost their lives in 100 days. This genocide proved to be one of the most horrific in recent history
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a terrible thing that went unnoticed in the public eye. This genocide erupted because of an ongoing feud between the Hutu and Tutsi people of Rwanda. What is said to have sparked the genocide is “when a surface-to-air missile shot his plane out of the sky over Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali”. (Rwanda Genocide-A short History of the Rwanda Genocide). After this plane crash the Hutu extremists took over the government and blamed the Tutsus for the assassination and began the genocide. (RG-ASHORG).
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detail. Ominously‚ the author introduces you into a standard of life that to us seems inexistent. The Tutsi tribe was historically seen as the ruling class of Rwanda while Hutu were considered farmer folk. Following World War I the Belgians were authoritarian rulers in the region‚ fueling further disputes between the Hutu and the Tutsi people by dividing them stereotypically-the Hutus being the poorer folk while Tutsis were the higher class folk with a relatively lighter skin tone through European
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people today have heard about the genocide in Rwanda. 20 years later‚ Rwanda can show us how to forgive and live on. The Hutu and Tutsi’s are two‚ not so different‚ ethnics that live in Rwanda together. The people were classified as two different ethnics when really there isn’t any difference‚ only one is generally taller (Johnson 1). The tension and history between the Hutu and Tutsi’s rivalry shocked the 20th century‚ thought to have never been forgivable. The Hutu’s had a lot of revulsion towards
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Rwanda genocide have been labeled as a category of “genocide”. And because of this categorization of the Hutu and Tutsi; they became victims of the “nouns that cut slices” (218)‚ a phrase that Allport uses for “the names that help us to perform the clustering” (218). The Rwanda genocide also opened the eyes of the people to Allport’s idea of “emotionally toned labels” (220); the labels of being a Hutu and Tutsi had many connotations both bad consequently leading to their clash because of the “misunderstanding
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and that is why the Hutus are attacking on the Tutsis. Paul is a Hutu‚ but his wife Tatiana and his children and other close friends are all Tutsis and it is his mission to save them all. In the movie when Paul was getting ready to go work the Hutu rebels come to see if there are any Tutsis left in Paul’s house‚ Paul hides all of his family and all of his friends in one room of the house and Paul goes outside to deal with the Hutu rebels. Paul then takes everyone to the hotel and bribes the rebels
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