Arusha Accords

Rwandan Genocide History has seen its share of civil wars, massacres, and failures. The most violent, perhaps, of the crimes have occurred more recently, in the 20th century. As war “etiquette” has relegated, the atrocities committed against human beings have evolved. A new manner of channeling anger and hatred of a certain group arose; genocide. The Armenian genocide was one of the first crimes committed against an ethnic or religious group. The deaths experienced, however, does…

Throughout history the world has experienced countless acts of mass violence and brutality. That being said few of these instances have rivaled that of the Rwandan genocide. In the early days of April 1994 until mid July of that same year upwards of 800,000 people were murdered, a rate that surpassed the Nazis in their killing of the Jews during the Holocaust. The perpetrators of these murders were a Rwandan ethnic group called the Hutu and their victims were not only of a separate ethnic…

The first focus question is What happened in Rwanda in the 1990s? The Rwandan Genocide was a 100-day long mass murder of the Tutsi people committed by the Hutu people in Rwanda, from 7 April to 15 July 1994. Several actions by the colonial, then the Hutu-led government served as the impetus to the escalation of ethnic tension. The colonial rulers (Germany until 1919, Belgium thereafter) favoured the Tutsi over the Hutu, and gave Tutsi people additional benefits like education and positions of…

The Tutsi and the Hutu are two of the largest population division in Rwanda and Burundi. Hutu being the largest and Tutsi being the second largest, both which inhabit the African Great Lakes region. “The Hutu are the majority of the Rwandan people, with about 10 million Hutu in the Rwandan and Burundi area” (The Rwandan Genocide). Even though the Hutu is the majority of the population, the Tutsi has made sure that the Hutu will not get any significant positions in the government. The Hutu are…

The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide In 1994, the tiny country of Rwanda was disrupted with brutal violence, and saw the killing of nearly one million people in a period of one-hundred days. It was a genocide, the mass murder of Africans that resided in Rwanda. The aftermath of the loss left survivors traumatized and foreigners felt ashamed in their inability to intervene in the catastrophe. During the massacre, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, was appointed as force commander to the United…

Following the Second World War, Canada has made various efforts to improve its peacekeeping reputation; beginning with them joining the United Nations (UN) after its creation in 1945 they were mostly successful (“Canada and the United Nations.”). However, not all of their efforts have been successful; they have also made some mistakes along the way. Canada’s efforts within the last 60 years include the Suez Crisis in 1956, the United Nations Mission for Rwanda from 1993 to 1996 and United…

US marines were transferred from Somalia to help with the operation (Klinghoffer). The mission ended up being successful. American policy then focused on arranging a ceasefire in a place as a precondition to negotiations, and on implementing the Arusha power sharing agreement. Ending the civil war, not the genocide was the major concern as most American policymakers seemed to believe that mutual ethnic killings and an ethnic civil war were evolving hand in hand (Klinghoffer). Although…

This research proposal will look into the validity of humanitarian intervention (United Nations) within an international context. Human intervention can be defined as being : "a time where a substantial amount of the population within a country is threatened with possible death or suffering, and for this reason it justifies the intervention into the state in order to protect said citizens. Human intervention has existed since the word peacekeeping was coined in 1948, and it continues to exist to…

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 Tutsi who had gained power in neighboring Burundi, by 1994, Rwanda had become one of the most densely populated and poverty stricken countries in the world and encouraged more ethnic conflicts between the Tutsi and the Hutus. In 1993, the Arusha Accords Peace Treaty was signed between the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), which mainly consisted of Tutsi, and the government of Rwanda, but tensions rose once again when the Melchior Ndadaye, the first Hutu president, was assassinated and the…