Armenian Genocide

Graphic Novel Essay One of the darkest time in Rwandan history was the massacre of Tutsi and moderate Hutu; It lasted a hundred days and an estimated one million Rwandans were killed. The genocide was planned by a group of Hutu extremist known as the Akazu, and the killings were carried out by the government supported militias like the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi. Even though innocent civilians were being slaughtered because of their ethnicity, the United Nations choose not to intervene…

The Rwandan Genocide refers to the systematically performed mass murders of the Tutsi people by their longstanding rivals the Hutu, in which approximately 1 million Tutsi people were killed in a quick and brutal manner by the predominant Hutu government. For as long as history in Rwanda has been recorded, there has always been a long standing feud between the Hutu (85% of the population) and the Tutsi (13% of the population) because of disputes about the Tutsi’s true origins and their distinctly…

“Is it possible for anyone to find a reason to call strangers family? That is so weird!” said one of my American friends Kelly when I told her that I do not miss home. Before leaving my family, I could not imagine that it is possible to find peace and comfort away from home. Where I come from, Rwanda, family is everything anyone would every wish for. However, I have passed through many life circumstances which influenced my understanding of who I should consider to be my family. I always wonder…

(“Statistics”). Each man, women and child was killed as part of a genocide resulting from increased tensions between the nation’s Hutu ethnic majority and the powerful Tutsi minority. After a plane carrying the country’s Hutu president was shot down in April 1994, extreme Hutu nationalists used the tragedy as an opportunity to gain power and kill Tutsis and moderate Hutus (“Rwanda”). An estimated 800,000 to one million Rwandans were killed in the genocide, leaving only 300,000 to 400,000…

The failure of the UN to act upon the reports of genocide in Rwanda caused an innumerable amounts of killing and anarchy. The problems started with the Belgium’s discrimination between the two populations. Going as far as to hire scientists to prove the Tutsi superiority, they only enabled the already present racism between the two groups. Then the Hutu population decided to act. After the president was shot down, supposedly by Hutu extremists, the anarchy began. The Hutu people was responsible…

Obedience can be defined as a form of social influence whereby the individual acts in a response to an order which is usually from an authority figure. It may well be that without such an instruction the individual may not have acted in this way. It can be seen as a necessary aspect of a society that individuals are obedient and show a respect for the rule of law and order. Obedience can help maintain a certain level of social cohesion, however if it is misdirected and individuals are…

The genocide lasted for one hundred days and approximately eight hundred thousand Rwandans were killed in this short amount of time. But to get a little more specific, an estimated amount of five hundred thousand Tutsis were murdered and also moderate Hutus. The militia groups and Hutu supremacist were the one’s who primarily carried out the genocide. One of the most unique aspects of the genocide is that it was actual Hutu citizens slaughtering other…

Genocide is believed to be an exceptional and rare phenomena; yet, this is not the case. Gregory Stanton (2013) estimated that since the foundation of genocide watch started there has been around 70 million deaths across 45 genocides (Stokes and Gabriel, 2010). One of the most well-known being the Rwandan genocide. The nature of the Hutu and Tutsi’s historical pastoral or agricultural roles, suggest that the Tutsis were more commonly found to be landowners. Whereas, Hutus worked on the land,…

Conflicts: Rwanda vs Belgium Rwanda and Belgium are both states where two nations are forced to coexist, which causes conflict inside the borders of each country. In Rwanda, the conflict between the two groups exploded in 1994 and resulted in a mass genocide that has lingering tension twenty-two years later. In Belgium, the conflict is not violent but the divide caused two government shutdowns and a strong nationalist movement in the Flemish north. While the two conflicts are similar because…

In 1994, the world witnessed one of the most horrific genocides in recent memory. As reported by the BBC, in the small African country of Rwanda, the conflict between two ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, had been brewing for decades but throughout the colonial period, tensions rose substantially, ultimately ending in the bloody massacre now known as the genocide against the Tutsi. Belgian colonizers, who deemed the Tutsis to be preferable to the Hutus, created an even stronger divide by…