Genocide in Rwanda When we think about Genocide we usually think of what happened during the Holocaust as the best case scenario for genocide in our history, but there were other Genocide that occurred in the world one come to mind in Rwanda. In this paper I will be focusing the history of Rwanda and the 1994 Genocide. What are the different theories that explain the Genocide in Rwanda and which ethnic conflict theory best fits the Genocide in Rwanda? Rwanda is a landlocked East African country in the north it borders Uganda while in South it borders Burundi. It’s the smallest region in the continent of Africa. It has two main ethnicities the Hutu and the Tutsi.
History
Author Frank Spalding intermarriage causes the genocide in Rwanda …show more content…
Some ethnic conflicts occur of religious ideologies, high nationalism, culturally belief, poverty and lack of choice and scapegoating the minority for the majority of the people as wells natural resources, and when rights are being violated. The genocide that happened in Rwanda was a clear idea of a state to totally eliminate a group or a minority. Then there is a cultural genocide when monuments, churches were written text and houses that a certain group uses to identify itself. This can also be considered as an ethnic cleaning kind of like what happed in Yugoslavia and included relocation as well as killing the majority to the minority. In Comparative politics, there are three types of ethnic conflict theories. They are Primordia list accounts, this form of ethnic group and nationalists exist because of traditions of belief and action toward the human features such as biological features pigmentation because of territorial locations. Primordial rely on strong ties to kinship or other members of the ethnic groups and makes it possible to rely on family resemblances and repeated conflicts on its group. The second theory of ethnic conflict is Instrumentalist account. An Instrumentalist account is similar to discrimination and race where a minority are not important and ignored by the government in power and they are not relevant for decision making and are rooted in society and regulated …show more content…
It’s the best one because for years the population in Rwanda between the Hutu, Tutsi and the Twa lived fairly peacefully in Rwanda but it only stared when friction between the two major population the Hutu and the Tutsi because of colonial power came and divided the regions up. Belgium colonials came and made the Tutsi population of greater importance because they resembled the closure of the whit Caucasian pigment and by providing a higher social importance to the Tutsi compared to the Hutu population and the Tutsi were becoming oppressed kind of like the Belgian imperialist in Rwanda. The constructivist account of ethnic conflict and genocide in Rwanda also included of issuing identity cards to all three populations in Rwanda the Hutu, Tutsi and the Twa. Another part of the conflict in Rwanda during the beginning was because of no clear authority during the beginning of the conflict and not enough discipline in Rwanda. This conflict can be considered interpersonal conflict as well and they become violent and criminal acts. This conflict is drawn up from previous hatred from one group to another and the Hutu, was experiencing a hard life because of Tutsi rule during colonial times as well as the Belgian preferred the Tutsi to rule because of close pigment to white
History
Author Frank Spalding intermarriage causes the genocide in Rwanda …show more content…
Some ethnic conflicts occur of religious ideologies, high nationalism, culturally belief, poverty and lack of choice and scapegoating the minority for the majority of the people as wells natural resources, and when rights are being violated. The genocide that happened in Rwanda was a clear idea of a state to totally eliminate a group or a minority. Then there is a cultural genocide when monuments, churches were written text and houses that a certain group uses to identify itself. This can also be considered as an ethnic cleaning kind of like what happed in Yugoslavia and included relocation as well as killing the majority to the minority. In Comparative politics, there are three types of ethnic conflict theories. They are Primordia list accounts, this form of ethnic group and nationalists exist because of traditions of belief and action toward the human features such as biological features pigmentation because of territorial locations. Primordial rely on strong ties to kinship or other members of the ethnic groups and makes it possible to rely on family resemblances and repeated conflicts on its group. The second theory of ethnic conflict is Instrumentalist account. An Instrumentalist account is similar to discrimination and race where a minority are not important and ignored by the government in power and they are not relevant for decision making and are rooted in society and regulated …show more content…
It’s the best one because for years the population in Rwanda between the Hutu, Tutsi and the Twa lived fairly peacefully in Rwanda but it only stared when friction between the two major population the Hutu and the Tutsi because of colonial power came and divided the regions up. Belgium colonials came and made the Tutsi population of greater importance because they resembled the closure of the whit Caucasian pigment and by providing a higher social importance to the Tutsi compared to the Hutu population and the Tutsi were becoming oppressed kind of like the Belgian imperialist in Rwanda. The constructivist account of ethnic conflict and genocide in Rwanda also included of issuing identity cards to all three populations in Rwanda the Hutu, Tutsi and the Twa. Another part of the conflict in Rwanda during the beginning was because of no clear authority during the beginning of the conflict and not enough discipline in Rwanda. This conflict can be considered interpersonal conflict as well and they become violent and criminal acts. This conflict is drawn up from previous hatred from one group to another and the Hutu, was experiencing a hard life because of Tutsi rule during colonial times as well as the Belgian preferred the Tutsi to rule because of close pigment to white