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Bystanders actually encourage bullies to continue to bully the victim. When a bully doesn’t get stopped, they feel more powerful and they continue when all you have to do is report it. Inaction, or remaining silent, can create dire consequences. In 1944, the Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda were fighting. Over 1 Million out of the 8 Million population were killed. This event is the Rwandan Genocide. The Hutu had to flee their country and thousands of the Hutu people died because no country, included…

The 2005 film, Sometimes in April, depicts the 1994 Rwandan Genocide through two Hutus brothers, Honoré and Augustin. The film is set in two time periods, April 1994 and 2004, to show the acts that occurred during the genocide and the aftermath of the systematic slaughter of the Tutsis. Honoré, who one of the voices that helped expose Hutu propaganda on Radio RTLM, awaits trial for inciting the genocide while his brother, Augustin, has flashbacks of the horrific event that resulted in the death…

The 1994 Rwandan genocide was the result of an economic crisis, civil war, population growth and a struggle for state power. Rwanda’s population of more than 7 million people is divided into three ethnic groups, the Hutu roughly 85% of the population, the Tutsi (4% and the Twa 1%. The 100 days of violence resulted in the deaths between 500,000 and 1 million people of Rwanda's population had been killed, mostly by the Hutus. The Rwandan genocide has often been portrayed as an inevitable ethnic…

Why does one kill his brother? Does history repeat itself, as Cain killed his brother Abel, we kill our brother once again? I was only five years old at the time, growing up in the city of Kigali. My Mama Igna took care of me and my sister Shereen. Life before the genocide was incredibly fun. Me and my peers would play soccer on the rooftops. My Mama Igna had her own restaurant across from my day care. My Mama would sell her famous urwagwa, a beer made from the fermented juice of bananas that…

Short Review on Hotel Rwanda The film Hotel Rwanda depicts the story of the war in Rwanda between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples, known as, the Rwandan genocide. Paul Rusesabagina, who plays as Don Cheadle, is a Hutu. He is the manager of Hotel des Mille Collines and lived with his wife Sophie Okonedo, whom was a Tutsi, and their three children. When the Hutu military forces started a campaign for ethnic cleansing against the Tutsi minority, Paul and his family watched neighbors get beaten and…

As everyone knows, on the TPLF's manifesto outline showed that apart from capitalism and imperialism, the number one enemy of the Tigray people is Amhara. Actually, this is a pattern of massively murdering and displacing the Amharas for the last 27 years by the TPLF and its agents in every region in the country, but the recent gruesome massively attacked and cut off the young boy's private flesh in Benishangul is very disturbed and savagely cruel. This barbarous act emphatically shows that the…

The Rwandan Genocide was a mass murder of all the Tutsi people in Rwanda. It began April 6th 1994 when the president, Juvenal Habyarimana, died when his plane was shot down by a Tutsi rebel group. The genocide took out nearly 1 million Tutsi people, which is about 3/4 of the Tutsi population. Before Rwanda gained independence they were ruled by the Belgians. The Belgians believes that Tutsis were superior to Hutus which is why when they were in charge, the Tutsis were put in power. When Rwanda…

Hotel Rwanda and Anne Frank Human nature. During the holocaust and Genocide in Rwanda killed 6,800,000 died. During 1994 in Rwanda was when the genocide began. There are some good and bad sides of human nature and in Anne Frank and Hotel Rwanda give us very good examples. In the country of rwanda the Hutus and the Tutsis were at war because the Hutus didn't like how the Tutsis were favored more by the Belgians because they were lighter so in the movie the Hutus began a Genocide in 1994. In the…

The genocide in Rwanda was an extremely tragic event in 1994, claiming over 800,000 lives. There are a multitude of factors that are culpable for this genocide. This genocide was largely due to the ethnic tension in Rwanda, as well as different political groups being power hungry. There are a few reforms and principles that should be put into place so that there is not “another Rwanda” in the 21st Century. These include nations supporting one another. If nations across the world worked together…

Introduction The Rwandan genocide is one of the most well-known genocides of recent history. In just a few months, over 800,000 people were killed in one small country. Although the Rwandan genocide was perpetrated by Rwandans, the cause of the genocide, and the mess of the country that came after the genocide, can be traced back to Belgian colonialism in the early to mid 1900s. Rwanda’s social climate was never perfect, but Belgian involvement deepened the problem, and created a country with…