favored the Tutsis. This lead to the Tutsis ruling over the Hutu. Until 1959 when Belgium switched to the Hutu. The Hutu turned on the Tutsi‚ “In the 1960’s‚ some 20‚000 Tutsi were killed and over a quarter-million driven into exile”(Anderson). Even though the Hutu made up most of the population they were being taken advantage of‚ “Hutu made up 85 percent of the population‚ while the Tutsi accounted for only 15 percent”(Anderson). Eventually the Hutu revolted and started to exert their power. Therefore
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reaction to the film‚ as well as address the film as it relates to the concepts of human geography that I have learned over the semester. The movie is about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The movie shows how Hutu extremists mass murdered the Tutsi population and how one Hutu named Paul Rusesabagina‚ a hotel manager‚ helped save the lives of his friends and family and over one thousand refugees. The movie itself was very well done. It was shocking and inspirational. I was shocked by
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The Holocaust isn’t the only genocide in History. The definition of genocide is “The deliberate and systematic extermination of a nation‚ racial‚ or cultural group. Two groups in Rwanda‚ the Hutus the dominant and the Tutsis the smaller are at war. The Rwandan Genocide started because of a death of the Rwandan president‚ but no one knows who caused it. To start‚ the Rwandan Genocide was a war between two groups in Africa. There were 2 groups‚ the Hutus and the Tutsis. To start‚ it was originally
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where I lived in central Rwanda‚ were Christians. We all liked and ate the same kinds of food. At least 95 percent of my village was farmers. I would never know the difference between Hutu and Tutsi if I did not learn it from school‚ family and peers. School was the first place that taught me the concept of Tutsi and Hutu. I attended a Catholic school but the national Rwandan Board of Education set the curriculum. During the first week of the school year‚ there was what I call the census of Hutus and
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isolated. Now Burundi was populated with Hutus and Tutsis as the two main ethnic groups. The Hutu group is their majority with 85% of the population and is usually short and square‚ whereas the Tutsi group is the minority and usually tall and thin with 14% of the population (Embassy of the Republic of Burundi‚ 2010). But despite that percentage‚ the Tutsi group has always been the dominant compared to the Hutu. Standford (2007) stated that up until now Burundi already has 3 democratically elected
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violence between the two groups? The author challenges that extreme violence is necessary in order to see the correlation between trust and violence. In Rwanda extreme violence did take place when the Hutus killed 500‚000 to 800‚000 Tutsis in 1994. The Hutu final solution was carried out so well because the Hutus killed with speed and efficiency. With such attributes‚ they met little resistance. According to a Tutsi refugee‚ the militias had been training for months before the president’s plane was shot
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murder of over 800‚000 Tutsi people. More specifically‚ eight thousand people died per day for one hundred days‚ the equivalent of five lives per minute. Five lives per minute because of ethnic competition and rising tensions between the Tutsi and Hutu groups. An ethnic competition that began with the initial separation of Rwandan citizens by European colonists and continued with destructive decisions made by political powers‚ resulted in a genocide that left permanent physical and mental scars
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For 18 years ago the world’s media focused on a small‚ poor and relatively unknown country. It was during this period that the genocide in Rwanda began‚ and nearly 800 000 people were deprived of their life’s. The intense media coverage gave us the opportunity to behold one of modern time’s worst human disasters since the holocaust. The world witnessed when schoolchildren were killed by their teachers and women of their men‚ these were mainly Tutsis who were killed by Hutus by using all available
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where the Hutu population began mass slaughtering of the Tutsi. There were two different groups killing people they were‚ the Interahamwe and the Hutu rebellious. The genocide killed upwards of eight hundred thousand people mainly Tutsi‚ and created two million refugees. The genocide was a major mass killing where people still to this day being convicted of mass murdering and being jailed. During Rwanda’s genocide there were two different ethnic groups fighting‚ they were the Hutu and the Tutsis
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In the movie Hotel Rwanda‚ the Hutu Tribe started a civil war with each other. The Hutu Tribe disliked the Tutsi Tribe because they felt as though they arrogant. One man in the movie stated that you could identify a Tutsi because of the lighter skin and that they were upper class. The Tutsi Tribe were the minority and the Hutus felt the need to wipe them out. They did this by basically having a genocide. A genocide is a mass murder against a group of particular people. The Hutus came with soldiers
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