Bosnian Genocide

groups, but the alleged assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana triggered the Rwandan Genocide on April 6, 1994. The Hutu started to kill the Tutsi, resulting in 800,000 casualties. Many would think that this event would leave to a larger split between the two groups, but the Rwandans believe that it is better to leave the past in the past and think of the future instead. What caused the Rwandan Genocide was essentially frustration. It was frustration over their treatment, frustration…

common question people are compelled to ask when studying genocide is: why? Throughout our lives, we hear about these atrocities, and yet they never seem to make sense to the average person. Many people tend to look over the details, just reassuring themselves that these campaigns are led out by evil, sociopathic dictators. Yet, they forget to ask how these campaigns start and, once again, why they started in the first place. In the case of genocide, there are two main reasons why a genocidal…

next-door neighbor was ordered to kill you, and he did so willingly. Hard to imagine? Well, this was once a harsh reality in the small African country of Rwanda. In April of 1994, a mass genocide broke out in Rwanda, where the Tutsi ethnic group was persecuted and hunted for two months. It was the largest genocide since World War II. Between April 6 and July 4, more than 800,000 Tutsis had been shot, hacked to death with machetes, or beaten to death, based on only their ethnic background, or…

Europe and the colonization of African nations lasted for almost a century until nearly all African nations were under European control. Imperialism had both negative and positive effects on African life. The film Hotel Rwanda depicts the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and many legacies left behind by European imperialism, such as racial tensions, global commerce, and new cultural norms can be seen throughout the film. Although not a prominent aspect of the film, one of the most significant legacies…

People don’t always do the evil things they do for no reason. Sometimes it how that person is raised or it is just the thing that person feels is the right thing to do. An example of this is people from the inner city. You can’t say that everyone from these types of places is bad. It could just be where they were born. They can’t change that and it shouldn’t affect what people think of them. Just like in Rwanda, the killers were born into their tribe and when they felt mistreated, they stood up…

categories which intensified the racial divide between the Hutu and Tutsi. The Rwandan Genocide occurred in 1994. During this time the ethnic majority, the Hutu, slaughtered the ethnic minority, the Tutsi. Up to one million people died during the 100 day genocide. There were years of discrimination of the Tutsi, and the Hutu’s feared losing power. This paved the way to genocide (Walker, L.). After the Rwandan Genocide the population was in shock, and the infrastructure was destroyed (UN News…

Burundi is a small country that is part of the Great Lakes region bordering Rwanda to the North, Tanzania to the South and East, and the DRC to the West. There are three ethnic groups in Burundi, namely the Tutsi (14%), Hutu (85%), and the Twa (1%). The background of the conflict and peace processes in Burundi is an extremely complicated one, considerably obscured by the lack of consensus on the historical accounts presented by different actors. This review highlights some historical facts about…

Therefore, the need to put off conflict from arising and solve those that are taking place. Humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian intervention has been defined as when a state or a group of states employs military force within another country’s territory to protect civilians against atrocities and/or the consequences of a humanitarian conflict. (Hrea.org p132). It is in every essence different from humanitarian aid which is provided by non-governmental organizations such as Red Cross.…

Left to Tell is the survival story of a Rwandan Tutsi, Immaculee Ilibagiza. Immaculee shares the power of faith in God as she describes the physical, mental, and specifically spiritual obstacles she faced in the 1993 Rwandan genocide. Rwanda consists of three tribes, the rare pygmy Twas, the minority Tutsis, and the majority Hutus. Hutu extremists turned on their Tutsi neighbors after the country’s president Habyarimana’s plane was shot down. After 100 days of slaughter, the death toll climbed…

in “Just Genocide Theory”. The first criteria that should be met before going to war is that a genocide must be declared and waged by a legitimate authority. By definition, a genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. A legitimate authority must say it…