Bosnian Genocide

killings started at the beginning of this month and that’s close to 70,000 Rwandans killed in just two days. This genocide is occurring in Rwanda, which is a very small country in the middle of Africa. “The civil war began when Rwandan exiles formed a group called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and launched an offensive against Rwanda from their home base in Uganda” (United to End Genocide), and “much of the hatred between…

The genocide was completed amid and after World War I and executed in two stages: the discount murdering of the capable male populace through slaughter and subjection of armed force recruits to constrained work, trailed by the expelling of ladies, youngsters, the elderly and sick on death walks to the Syrian abandon . Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were denied of sustenance and water and subjected to occasional theft, assault, and slaughter. Others were harmed and suffocated.…

there were so many wars and instability in Africa in the late 90’s. Over the last four decades, nearly twenty African countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa area have experienced at least one form of war. The biggest and deadliest war was the Rwandan genocide. Most of the wars occurred because of influences Europeans had on African leaders and other ethnic rivalries. To fully understand the divisions that led to the unthinkable, one must understand what Rwandans were prior to these events.…

The purpose of a genocide is to aim at a certain nation, race, or ethnic group and exterminate them completely, and in this case 800,000 to 1,000,000 people were killed during the unknown Rwanda Genocide, in only 100 days. This conflict was between two racial groups, the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis. Racially, religiously, and socially unjust people who believe they are superior inspire genocides. The Rwanda Genocide was organized, by using ideas to bring Hutu…

German rule, but above all during the Belgian colonial rule after World War I, Christian missionaries became active in the country. This led to a predominance of Roman Catholics, who, shortly before the genocide accounted for some two-thirds of the population. The background to the Rwandan genocide is inseparable from the destructive legacy of first German, then Belgian and finally the French on the country’s inter-ethnic politics. Rwanda gained its independence from Belgium in 1961 after…

The Ottoman empire was replaced by the republic of turkey, who committed genocide on the ottomans, and eliminated over a million of the population which consisted of two million in 1915. The Ottoman empire ceased to exist in 1925 but the population was completely eliminated in 1923. The now Turkish republic encountered a lot of Armenian population who were a minority because they consisted Christian and the turks were an islamic based people with a hate for the Armenians. The victims were…

Chris Hedges' states in his introduction, "we in the industrial world bear responsibility for the world's genocides because we had the power to intervene and did not. We stood by and watched the slaughter in Chechnya, Sri-Lanka, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Rwanda, where a million people died (16)." The world could not prevent innocent people from war, which was failure of the world leaders and country like the United States. Hedges' idea and experiences about war and conflict are real and…

millions of lives, and in an attempt to halt the full blown massacre, millions more perished. In even more recent history, the same can be said of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. After the world was horrified of the mass slaughter in present day, the International Alliance to End Genocide (IAEG) was formed to prevent and stop forming and current genocides.…

It was intriguing to read “Genocide in the Great Lakes: Which Genocide? Whose Genocide?” because it revealed many critical historical problems, and revelations, between Hutu and Tutsis. When reading history about Rwanda one does not think about actions that are happening outside of the country. It was interesting to find out that many other events were occurring that constituted as genocide, but were never covered by the media. One major historical problem is the fact that peace-makers within…

One of the world’s most deadly genocides was orchestrated by an unfamiliar person to many. This man was known as King Leopold II of Belgium. When the Berlin conference was held he asked the constituents for the area known as the Congo. He able to bunco all the other countries, including the Americans by murdering nine million people and stole all the rubber in the Congo. King Leopold made over $1.1 billion dollars while pillaging in the Congo (The New York Times). King Leopold used this idea of…