genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. The genocidal campaign was led by Hutu extremists in 1994. By examining the timeline‚ number of deaths‚ and the weapons used‚ it is clear that the Rwandan Genocide was one of the worst in history. There were two sides in the genocide. The Hutus‚ who were the perpetrators; and the Tutsis‚ who were the victims. The conflict started when‚ in April 1994‚ a plane carrying the President was shot down and he was killed. The Hutus blamed a group of Tutsi exiles called the
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Rwanda had been the home of oppression throughout most of its history‚ the center of the issues revolving around the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Hutu make up the majority in Rwanda while the Tutsi make up the minority.1 Ever since‚ these two groups started inhabiting the same area‚ they have struggled for power. Initially it was the Tutsi‚ then the Hutu‚ and now the Tutsi again. Amidst this struggle for power came the Rwandan Civil War and the Rwandan Genocide. There are many opinions on the war and
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these emotions everyday as a result of a 1994 genocide that began in April‚ ended in July‚ and resulted in the mass 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
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main ethnic populations‚ the Tutsis and the Hutus. The Hutus represent 80% of the Rwandan population. Rwanda was once a Belgium colony. When Belgium withdrew from Rwanda‚ the Tutsis quickly took control of the businesses and the government. Although being a minority‚ the Tutsis were socially‚ economically and politically dominant. Tensions grew rapidly between the ethnic groups‚ which led to the exiles‚ in 1959 to 1961‚ of many Tutsis. With the departure of the many Tutsis‚ the nation started to deteriorate
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status to the Tutsi minority‚ who at the time made up about 8% of the population (Cook‚ 2006). The Tutsis would for decades rule over the other ethnic party in Rwanda‚ the Hutus. The differences between these two ethnic groups were emphasized by the Belgians who used physical characteristics as a guide to divide the two into two separate races. The Belgians classified those who were generally tall‚ thin‚ and more ’European’ looking as Tutsis and the shorter‚ stockier Rwandans as Hutus (January‚ 2007)
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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 down. This shows that there might have been some evidence
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INTRODUCTION Within the borders of most of states there exist numerous ethnic‚ national‚ racial‚ linguistic or cultural groups. In other words‚ the majority of states are composed of more than one ethnic group. Sometimes these groups are not accepted as full members of this state or the nation‚ which it purports to be or presented‚ or who actually excluded from it. In such circumstance number of ethnic groups demands more rights and recognition that leads in many cases to ethnic conflict If not
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death of the majority of the Tutsi people‚ the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal‚ and the spread of HIV in Rwanda and the surrounding area. The racial tensions that fueled the mass killing of the Tutsi people began long before April 1994. The majority Hutu and minority Tutsi and Twa people of Rwanda lived in relative peace until their country came under Belgian rule in 1916. In an effort to retaliate
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in terms of genocide‚ you put them into specific distinguishable groups. Both the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust included this step in their genocides. Jews and Germans were known and people could identify themselves in their countries as Hutus and Tutsis are in Rwanda. Though the way they were classified was not the same. “The Jews‚ according to Hitler‚ were the racial opposite[of the Germans]‚ and were actively engaged in an international conspiracy to keep this master race from assuming its
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the population of the Rwanda was overtaken by Hutus; about 85% and 14% of Tutsi‚ A number of Hutus believed they were the superior race over the Tutsi. The Hutus considered the Tutsi as “inhuman” and wanted to get rid of number of Tutsis (Genocide in Rwanda. (n.d.). Retrieved October 5‚ 2015.) Paul Rwanda took over 1268 Tutsi refugees over the three month period of the civil war. But along with the number of refugees he did protect over one million Tutsis and rebels
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