supplied the Hutus with machetes and how much did they cost? They came from China‚ each one cost ten cents. 3. Describe the guests at Paul’s Hotel. The most part was rich people from other countries. 4. What does Paul tell his wife when she asks why the soldiers would have arrested Victor (the neighbor)? He told that someone who didn’t liked him must denounced him as a rebel spy. 5. What does the Rwandan journalist tell Jack (the American reporter) is the difference between the Hutus and Tutsis? That the
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Conflict is prominent in our world today and that is obvious in the small African country of Rwanda where Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups are engulfed in a bloody battle for control of their country. There are many differing ideas as to what the rest of the world‚ mostly Western countries‚ should do about the current conflict. Some would argue that the West must intervene in this African affair in order to establish peace‚ but I do not believe that an intervention would be helpful. As a Nigerian citizen
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Genocide in 1994 is known as one of the worst genocides since the Holocaust. The very name is sketched into our histories consciousness as a place of evil and unimaginable pain. Between April and mid-July 1994‚ between 800‚000 and 1‚000‚000 Tutsi civilians and moderate Hutus were brutally slaughtered in a genocidal
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again let anything like this happen.” In the spring of 1994‚ all hell broke loose as one million people died in the Rwandan Genocide. What happened to the promise to never let another genocide occur again Racism‚ competition of land between Hutu and Tutsi‚ and denying the situation in Rwanda as genocide‚ the killings occurred and continued for 100 long days. However‚ that all happened because of European colonization in Africa. Doc 1‚ by Gerard Prunier‚ states how the Belgians divided Rwanda people
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countries especially the USA considered the killings as part of a civil war. From 1916-1959 Rwanda was under Belgium colonial rule and contributed to the tensions between the Hutus and Tutsi’s. In 1918 at the end of WW1 Belgium was handed over Rwanda as a colony stated in the Treaty of Versailles. The hostility between the Hutus and Tutsi’s‚ however very intense‚ only reaches back a few
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nation. Rwanda is a country that consists of 85% of Hutus‚ 14% of Tutsis‚ and 1% of Twa. Both Germany‚ and Belgium took over the control of Rwanda in 1916; however‚ Belgium‚ exclusively‚ is responsible for such an echo of tragedy. Belgium‚ as it is mentioned‚ conquered over Rwanda in 1916 and started giving privileges to Tutsis only since Tutsis had a better ethnic features: a whiter skin color‚ longer nose‚ and many others. The privileges only for Tutsis included a high-quality-education‚ military supports
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promised to do all they could to prevent future genocides. However this was a promise they were unable to keep. In 1994 when Rwanda went through genocide the United States and U.N were absent‚ leaving the Tutsis to be brutally murdered by the Hutus. As a consequence 800‚000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed and dumped into mass graves. Once again the United States and U.N promised to do more‚ but this time it was too late. Before the genocide‚ Rwanda existed as a country the size of Vermont with
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the Rwanda genocide occurred. The history behind this was the resentment of being inferior. When Belgium claimed Rwanda and surrounding areas for German East Africa in about 1924‚ there became tension between two tribes. The Belgiums favored the Tutsi (which were 12% of the population) and the Hutu (85% of population) grew angry for being considered inferior. This struggle waged on for sixty years and finally hit its peak. The catalyst of the genocide was when President Juvenal Habyarimana‚ the
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favored the minority‚ Tutsis‚ of the majority‚ Hutus‚ who were angered after Belgium left Rwanda and put the Tutsis in power of the Rwandan government (“The Rwandan Genocide”). Later a Hutu rebel group tried to‚ and did overthrow the Tutsi government (“Rwandan Genocide: 100 days of slaughter-BBC News”). This led to an estimated 300‚000 Tutsi refugees that would flee the country in fear of Hutu rule and brutality (“Rwandan Genocide: 100 days of slaughter-BBC News”). After the Tutsis fled to the neighboring
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second best The Hutus and Tutsis were not traditionally different‚ and ethnicity in Rwanda only became important during Belgium colonization when the more European-looking Tutsis were chosen as the aristocracy to rule over the Hutus. After Rwanda ’s independence in 1961 the Hutu majority‚ comprising roughly 85% of the population‚ ruled the country. Between 1961 and the outbreak of genocide in 1994 many Tutsis fled the regime due to its discriminatory practices and anti-Tutsi policies. Even after
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