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In Rwanda, Africa, the year 1994 was probably the most terrific year for the nation's history. More than 800,000 Tutsi were brutally massacred at the machetes of Hutu while the entire world stood by and watched. What was the reason of this conflict? How was it possible to allow for such escalation of hatred? The main reason of such a tragedy can be tied to European colonialism in Rwanda. The Europeans succesfully birthed an ethnic divide between the Hutu (85% of Rwandan polulation) and Tutsi…

The memoir by Consolee Nishimwe is a historical account of the Genocide events that took place in Rwanda in the year 1994. The war was propagated by the crisis between the Tutsi and the Hutu people. The Hutu ethnic community rose against their counterparts, the Tutsis, and blamed them for the increasing social, economic and political pressures in the nation. Due to the incitement from the Hutu political elites in leadership, the Hutu community, the majority, began to exterminate the Tutsis, the…

The movie “Shake Hands with the Devil” is a true story about the brutal history of the Rwandan genocide. It is originally a book that was written by Romeo Dallaire; who is a Canadian humanitarian, and retired senator, that served as a force commander of UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda). The movie shows tragic scenes of how the feud between the Hutus and Tutsis affected their way of living harshly. Overall, the validity of the film is quite high, however, it contains…

In the years that created Rwanda nothing was more known the genocide that took place in that country. It was known all over the world and is still taught in schools today. The events that took place before the genocide has had a part in helping get the citizens in Rwanda to commit this act. As this was going on in Rwanda the international community did not help and the rest of the world watched and tried to make sense of what was happening. The Rwanda genocide was caused by years and years…

The Rwandan Raze The Rwandan genocide was like a firecracker, fast, explosive, and over in a flash. “Most of the killing was carried out by two Hutu radical militant groups: the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi,(“Rwandan genocide”)” supported by the Rwandan government. Though it lasted only 100 days, 800,000 people were killed, causing this event to be classified as a full scale genocide, a genocide being when one group of people, targets and kills mass amounts of people from another, ethnic,…

The ethnic tension in Rwanda is caused by two groups: the Hutu and the Tutsis. When Belgian colonized Rwanda they gave out identification cards to classify the natives by ethnicity. The Belgian’s favored the Tutsis despite the majority of the people being Hutus. So the Tutsis’ had access to better jobs and educational opportunities due to the Belgians favoritism. This caused the Hutu to resent the Tutsis. There are practically no differences between the two groups. They both share the same…

The 1994 Rwanda Genocide was a 100-day slaughter that took place in the African country Rwanda. It was a mass murder of minority Tutsi and some Hutu in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority. Approximately 500,000-1,000,000 Rwandans were killed by the Hutu. This was one of the worst genocides in history, and the effects are still evident more than 20 years later. The genocide created many problems in the country on top of the already existing problems. But it did create an almost natural…

Vengeance does not bring justice. There is no way to make up for millions of lives lost. After a genocide the most important question is how to achieve justice in the aftermath. Governments have struggled throughout history with how to put back together their countries after these tragedies tear them apart. Finding justice legally and putting perpetrators on trial is routinely the first step taken. Even if justice can be achieved in the court system, truth and education have a vital role in…

The United Nations was established in 1945 by 51 countries; by 2010, it was 192 countries strong. The participating countries were willing to abide to the obligations as outlined in the UN Charter, an international treaty which laid the foundation for basic principles of international relations. At its conception, the United Nations sought to serve four purposes: to maintain international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among states, to cooperate in solving international…

Everyone is aware that there are still pirates out there, and they can be just as violent as pirates from many years ago. But what you may not know is that most modern day pirates hail from Somalia, a country on the North-east coast of Africa. Somalia was not always like this, this is the product of a large state collapse that left many of it’s citizens left with no choice. It all started with the assassination of the country's second president, Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, who was killed by his…