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The African country, Rwanda is divided up by two ethnic groups, Tutsi and Hutus. Tutsi made up about 15 percent of the population and the Hutus made up about 85 percent. Throughout the years both these group have had conflict between each other. The one that stands out the most is the Rwandan genocide. Rwanda can be broken up into three different topics,the events that lead up to the genocide, the genocide, and rebuilding process from the tragedy. The Hutu were people who farmed crops, while…

In April 1994, a plane transporting the Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down which had in turn sparked the death of many Hutu and Tutsi civilians. Since this time, many books have been published about the killings that had occurred in Rwanda, focusing on the 1990s, most of the authors start their investigation on the history of Rwanda's, attempting to find explanations and the political factors that implemented the 1994 genocide. There is a large speculation about the definition…

In Rwanda there was a genocide that took place from April 7 1994, to July 1994, just 100 days. This was able to occur because of a series of events that transformed the everlasting tension between the Hutus and Tutsis. Civil war broke out in Rwanda in 1990, exacerbating existing tensions between the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority All Tutsis in the country were characterized as accomplices of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and all Hutu members of the opposition parties were deemed traitors. On…

During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Hutu extremists sought to kill all Tutsis after the Tutsi rebels shot down the president’s plane. Nearly a million Tutsis were murdered during the genocide. Hutus were ordered to cleanse Rwanda of all Tutsis by the Rwandan government. Hutus used machine guns, machetes, and grenades to clear Rwanda of Tutsis. Hutus also raped and transmitted HIV to dehumanization and strip women of their dignity. The genocide was ended when president Paul Magana sent the RPF to…

As we speak people are dying. A few week ago the African nation of Rwanda’s government (Hutus) started killing the Tutsis. We had information that the Hutu government was planning a mass killing but decided not to act on these fact. This was a mistake because after the president of Rwanda’s plane was shot down resulting in his death the killing started. Hutus have been killing anyone who is labeled a Tutsis. Tens of thousands have died. We must act now because 1) this is a genocide, 2)…

Apologizing is not easy, so people tend to do it only part way,insincerely, or not at all. And by doing that people miss out on a key opportunity to recover a relationship. For a 100-day period that started mid-july 1994 an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 rwandans were killed. constituting as many as 70% of the Tutsi population The genocide and widespread slaughter of Tutsi. The Hutus and the Tutsi were the same race, but different ethnicity group. Rwanda was owned by Belgium after World War 2.…

The Darfur crisis was the first case of genocide in the twenty-first century. The killings of the Darfur crisis began in 2003, and it was carried out by a government-funded Arab Militias called the Janjaweed. The Janjaweed burned villages, murdered, raped, and tortured the civilians of Darfur. A total of 480,000 people were killed and over 2.8 million people were displaced. In 2004 the United States declared the Darfur crisis was an act of genocide. Some people may say that these acts of…

Back in 1994, Rwanda faced its darker period of time in its history. A horrifying and historical genocide took place over three months on Rwandan soil. The horror and brutality of that act has been compared to what happened in Nazi Germany over World War II. About one million Rwandan people got literally exterminated by their countrymen because of their ethnic group given by Belgian colonizers over occupation (1916-1962). Nevertheless, that tragedy could have been lower and prevented if some…

Sociological research has studied the implementation and effects of transitional justice mechanisms on societies recovering from mass atrocities like genocide, but little is known about the attitudes of victims before the transitional justice mechanisms are implemented. This article analyzes over 1,500 interview responses from Darfuri genocide victims living in refugee camps in eastern Chad to assess the relationship between their exposure to violence and their punitive attitudes towards…

Rwanda is a small, densely populated state located in East Africa. Already under 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…