Analysis Of The Rwanda Genocide

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In this source I see a woman from Rwanda who is skin and bones lying on the ground waving goodbye to the bystanders. The bystanders represent us i think, in the sense that when we hear awful things like Rwanda in the news we try to make the best of it and don't look very deep into the problem and mostly just ignore it and turn a blind eye. The reason i say that is because no one in the cartoon is going up to her to see if she's okay, or ask her what she’s trying to say. Obviously this source is about the Rwanda genocide. The Rwanda genocide was the mass slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda by members of Hutu majority. The hundreds of thousands of lives so brutally taken in Rwanda left a mark on our world conscience and moved us a

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