Bosnian Genocide

Rwanda is a small landlocked country in East Africa, with a population of about 11 million, Rwanda was one of the last countries to be infiltrated by European contact. Rwanda has been showing signs of rapid economic development. Internationally many countries are concerned with Rwanda’s declining human rights. Rwanda is an amazing country that has been able to renew and rebuild its economy. There were three peoples in Rwanda Twa, Hutu, and Tutsi. The Twa preferred hunting and gathering and…

being is working in the background. Through divine intervention, Deo’s successes and struggles lead him down the path of righteousness. From the sheer mass of dead and decaying bodies, to the cries of a lone baby, Deo was no stranger to the years of genocide in Rwanda and Burundi. One of the first glimpses of divine intervention occurs on the first day of the killings. Deo was tending his patients and the next moment he was cowering under his very bed. Hoping to not be killed, Deo forced his…

and treating the Hutu like they were peasants (Peace Pledge Union Information). The genocide was not a simple matter of mutual hatred between tribes erupting into irrational violence. The killings were planned in advance by a clique close to the President himself (Fisanick). In the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 more than five hundred thousand people died within one hundred days. The key event that started the genocide, although not the only reason, was the assassination of the president of Rwanda,…

Ethnic Cleansing Pain, suffering, murder, and hate are the catalysts that formulate genocide; in Rwanda, this was the case. 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the Rwandan genocide that began in 1959. Although the genocide seemed to happen out of nowhere, previous conflicts helped contribute to death of thousands of Rwandans. Ultimately, the colonization of Rwanda by Belgians, led to the separation of Hutus and Tutsis identifying them as two separate racial groups, which sparked the tribes to fight…

Many innocent lives were taken during the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Philip Gourevitch’s “After the Genocide” explains why the genocide that occurred in Rwanda should not be written as just a slaughtering of people but should also show the pain it left behind in its wake. Gourevitch’s essay entails the stories of the people he interviewed when he went to Rwanda. These stories express what people went through during the genocide, the loss they saw, the mass killings they tried to hide from, and…

“A genocide that is when an ethnic group wants to bury another ethnic group. Genocide goes beyond War, because the intention lasts forever”( Hatzfeld 107). On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the Hutu President, Juvenal Habyarimana, sparked one of the greatest atrocities that mankind knows today as the Rwandan Genocide. A modern genocide that contained unimaginable techniques and foreshadowed events that could have been prevented by The West. The majority ethnic group, Hutus, slaughtered…

Left to Tell is a beautiful memoir of a survivor of the Rwandan Holocaust. The author and survivor, Immaculee Ilibagiza, writes about the most terrifying and morbid months of her young life. This story takes place in a small country in central Africa. According to Immaculee, Rwanda is “so breathtakingly beautiful that it 's impossible not to see the hand of God in her lush, rolling hills; mist-shrouded mountains; green valleys; and sparkling lakes.” Within Immaculee’s paradise lives her mother…

Hotel Rwanda is a movie released in 2004 and is inspired by the Rwanda genocide in 1994. The plot of Hotel Rwanda focuses on conflicts between the Abahutu (Hutu) and Abatutsi (Tutsi) cultures in Rwanda, Africa. The president of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, and the Burundian president, Cyprien Ntaryamira, were killed after their airplane was shot down by rebels. This event started the physical conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi culture in October 1, 1990 through August 4, 1993. The main…

The Siege of Sarajevo was an event in which two-hundred thousand people lost their lives. The book I had the pleasure of reading was “The Cellist of Sarajevo” by Steven Galloway. The purpose of this literature was to bring light to the “Siege of Sarajevo” that occurred between 1992 and 1996 and to show the humanity/inhumanity found within. The novel elicits many ideas which can be narrowed down to: war, symbolism, structure, character developments and historical context which will all be…

The federal troops were regulated to major cities; thus the Cristeros fought mainly agraristas. Cristeros were supported by the locals and managed to defeat the federal cavalry in several battles. Despite these wins, the Cristeros struggled to find leadership. There were chiefs that commanded different groups of men; but not one main single leader. One notable feature of the Cristero Rebellion was how it split the social classes. The middle-class members fought in Mexico City, while the lower…