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In Jean Hatzfeld’s Machete Season, he interviewed perpetrators from the Rwandan genocide, where the Hutus tried to exterminate the Tutsis. The Tutsis were the minority and had always been higher in social class compared to the Hutus. The Hutus were not fond of this. The Rwandan genocide was one of the most unorganized genocides where instead of designated killing squads like the Einsatzgruppen in the holocaust, it was all of the Tutsi’s neighbors that were coming to kill them. Although, every…

Genocide is a problem in the world today. Genocide is a mass murder of one group of people to another group of people. The genocide in Rwanda was one of the worst causes in African history. There are several causes and a lot of people involved with brutal outcomes in Rwanda genocide. There are several causes leading to genocide in Rwanda. The genocide was sparked when the plane of the president of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu was shot down above the Kigali airport on April 6 1994. The…

Rwandan notions of reciprocity and flow are integral features of Rwandan Cosmology that shape the ways in which Rwandans think of themselves and others and consequently influence the ways in which violence is enacted. Taylor (1999) argues that Rwandan conceptualizations of the body are founded principally on fluid metaphors of flow and blockage. He argues that these metaphors, while not explicitly verbalized, take on what Bourdieu (1990, p. 67) calls a “goes without saying’ quality.” Rwandan…

After the Holocaust, the world had promised that they would “never 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.…

There were three major events that the Indians fought against British rule. The initial incident was the massacre at the Golden Temple, or the Amritsar Massacre. This concluded in 1,200 wounded and about 400 dead Indians. The following disturbance was the homespun movement, or the boycott of British clothes. The act of defiance lead to the killing of police and the congress to stop protesting. The final conflict was the salt march. There were 60,000 arrests and Indians beaten brutally. These…

In the article titled,“They fled Boko Haram and famine - and then they were forced back,” author Kevin Sieff highlights issues surrounding events of what the United Nations has termed “forced returns” of thousands of refugees, specifically in the case of Nigerians in Cameroon. Sieff informs readers of the thousands of Nigerians that have fled their villages and homes to seek refuge in Cameroon, escaping violent attacks of the Islamist extremists, Boko Haram. Upon escaping, Nigerian refugees are…

Doubt, Keith. "Evil and the ritual of shame: A crime against humanity in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Janus Head 7.2 (2007): 319-331. Doubt uses a sociological lens to examine the ethnic cleansing in Serbia, stating that the root of ethnic cleansing lies in an “attempt to transform the public identities of individuals and a community.” (Doubt) This means to debase an individual or group into a lesser being(s) in the eyes of the witnesses, or the world community. This is the essence of how sociologists…

Rwandan Genocide Introduction Genocide, it ‘is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a specific nation or ethnic group’. Genocide is a very controversial topic, particularly the Rwandan Genocide which shocked the world in 1994. Rwanda has had a history of violence between the Hutus and Tutsis. In 100 days, 800,000 to 1 million people were mercilessly slaughtered by Hutu militia. The Hutus were targeting the Tutsi minority, as well as their political enemies. This…

On 6 April 1994, Habyarimana was killed when his plane was shot down. Hours later, the Hutu leaders had likewise been executed and fanatics took control of the government. Blockades had been set up all over which made leaving the nation difficult. Anybody going through was required to show recognizable proof papers, and all Tutsis were slaughtered on the spot. Before you know it, long killings were happening everywhere throughout the nation and the Tutsis were by all account not the only…

In 1994, the Hutu government in Rwanda and their extremist supporters were on the verge of eliminating the entire Tutsi minority in the region. This incident is known as the Rwandan Genocide which is was biggest killing spree of a group in the twentieth century. In “Bystanders to Genocide,” Samantha Power accuses the United States of crimes because of their weak policies towards Rwanda when it was obvious to the world that genocide was occurring. Samantha Power accuses the U.S. of crimes…