Bosnian Genocide

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…

The Rwandan Genocide Kofi Annan once said that “A genocide begins with the killing of one man-not for what he has done, but because of who he is.”, this is the exact definition of the Rwandan Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide happened in Rwanda on April 7, 1994 and lasted for 100 days. This genocide was done by the Hutus an ethnic group in Rwanda to the Tutsis also in Rwanda. In those days over 800,000 people died. It was total chaos, neighbors were killing neighbors, women were being raped, and…

unrealistic heroic version of the historical events that took place, Hotel Rwanda stills shows the conflict between two groups in Africa. Hotel Rwanda centers around the war between the Hutu tribe and the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda, also known as the Rwandan Genocide. Belgium was a catalyst for the war as they segregated Rwanda and built up the power of the Tutsi, causing hatred from the Hutus. When Belgium left, the Hutus began to revolt against the Tutsi population. They specifically target…

Left to tell and Night Genocide is the intentional killing of a large group of people. It occurs and perpetuates to occur throughout the world. In Night by Elie Wiesel and Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza describes the of surviving of Genocides. Wiesel and Ilibagiza share their experience of massacres that occurred in their homelands. Common themes found in Night and Left to Tell such as genocide, man’s faith, family relationships, and self preservation will be compared to each other.…

The novel, Running the Rift, by Naomi Benaron, is about Jean Patrick Nkuba and the race to find himself. The Rwanda Civil war threatened Jean Patrick’s dream of becoming the first gold medalist in track. Jean Patrick was Tutsi, the enemy during the war. Throughout the novel it is prevalent that Jean Patrick would do anything in his power to become an Olympian, but he has a family to protect and to honor. Jean Patrick’s family and his community triumphs over his love of running. Portrayed as a…