800‚000 people over the course of approximately 100 days‚ in the small East African Nation of Rwanda. This came about because of the longstanding ethic and tensions between the minority Tutsi‚ who had controlled power for centuries‚ and the majority Hutu peoples‚ who had come to power in the rebellion of 1959–62 and overtaken the Tutsi monarchy The Srebrenica massacre refers to the July 1995 killings‚ during the Bosnian War‚ of more than 8‚000 Bosnians‚ mainly men and boys were murdered The EU had
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Will FDLR rebels ever leave Congo and return to Rwanda? Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide‚ some of those responsible are still wreaking havoc in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo‚ where they are terrorising the local population and profiting from the area’s rich natural resources. The BBC’s Grainne Harrington reports on the UN’s attempts to persuade them to lay down their weapons and return home. Vincent Miranzi" is on the legal affairs commission of the Democratic Forces for the
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The major conflict that caused the use of child soldiers was the Rwandan civil war in 1994. Rwanda is the country located right next to the Congo. Rwandan Hutu rebels known as Interahamwe fled to the Dominican Republic of the Congo (DRC) after fearing their reprisals for their part in the mass killing of Rwandan Tutsis and joined forces with the Zairian army in 1998 to launch an offensive against the Congolese Tutsis in eastern Zaire. This erupted after the Belgian rule rewarded Tutsis with a Western
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Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid Glenda K. Walker Strayer University SOC 300- Sociology of Developing Countries December 2‚ 2014 Mr. J. Cathey The proliferation of crises around the world has led to a sharp increase in the scale of humanitarian aid required to meet the vital needs of the people affected by them for food‚ water‚ medical care and shelter. Humanitarian organizations can either meet those needs directly or support local services engaged in the same work. In most cases‚ both
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As one sets out to contrast genocides and holocausts‚ it is difficult to remain objective. Yes‚ there are differences‚ mainly semantic‚ between these two horrible acts. However‚ the fact remains that both terms are used to describe massive killings done with the intention of destroying an entire race of people. Genocides and holocausts are nauseating both in motivation and in the scale of their destruction. Both should never‚ ever happen again. The Holocaust began in 1933‚ when Adolf Hitler went
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He was in Kibuye‚ Rwanda where the killing of the Tutsis took place by the Hutu’s‚ because they claimed that the Tutsis killed their President and they were coming to slaughter them. Hutu leaders used government military forces‚ citizen militia and local mobs to start hunting down and killing the Tutsis in the communities. Hundreds of Tutsi men‚ women and children all ran to the cathedral and the Home St. Jeans complex to hide‚ but
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In definition colonialism is the situation where by the strong country control the weak country in socially‚ economically‚ and politically normally these strong country introduce little benefits or not to the weakest so as to get more from them‚ such they doing is like introduction of education which based on the their side‚ example they introduce their culture‚ example adoption of the Western culture in Africa. Also these strong country they introduce crops which benefit them‚ example cash crops
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Nadia Deeb 310203597 5. Is genocide gendered and how important is gender to our understanding of the phenomenon? What is the justification for rape being categorised now as a technique of genocide? Genocide is gendered and gender is extremely important to our understanding of genocide. Connections
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China. In various countries only part of the population can vote such as men in Moslem states i.e. Kuwait. Several countries are ruled by the army i.e. Pakistan is governed by a group of generals. In Rwanda there are two tribes the Tutsi (10%) and the Hutu (90%) that refuse to work together. The Tutsi control the army and the government. The
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many complete strangers. To most people‚ his actions would be considered good‚ and incredibly heroic‚ but according to Kant‚ not all of them would be. For example‚ his choice not to help his neighbors when he sees them being beaten and captured by the Hutu army. His intention was to save himself and his family by staying out of it‚ but that is not a good intent because it does not obey moral law. The moral thing to do would be to try and stop them because killing others is not respectful of the law.
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