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    they will feel abandoned and forgotten. In addition, many people also believe that anger and hatred are the utmost symbol of evilness. Although many people believe so, indifference can even lead good people to do nothing in the face of evil. In Hotel Rwanda, the cameraman makes it clear to Paul that people in the Western world would apathetically watch the news and move on with their lives. Being indifferent is therefore more severe than people who hate and angry because it also leads good…

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    Ethnic Paper on the Rwanda Genocide Homicide, whether was over power, hate, fear, revenge, or even confusion, murdering another fellow being has followed back in all of human history. The biggest tragedies in human history is when homicide becomes out of control and becomes a full out blown genocide. A genocide occurs when a there is an full out killing of a mass amount of people in a specific ethnic group. After the genocide of Jews in World War 2, mankind has pledge to never let that happen…

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    French and US government. They ultimately failed to invest energy needed to make the other power to respond . If the Belgium were too worried about the people of Rwanda they could have found a way to convince the major power since they were the coloniser of Rwanda and they had an influence in that country. The United State knew Rwanda was in crises but chose to ignore information so they shouldn’t intervene. This was just after the Clinton administration, the U.N mission failed in the…

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    On April 6, 1994 the death of the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi sparked a massacre within Rwanda, known as the Rwandan Genocide. Genocide is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as the “deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. ” Social bias, discrimination and prejudice ultimately lead to the death of up to 1,000,000 Rwandans. What social roles lead to this massacre and what precautions can be taken to prevent an event like this?…

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    This was not the case once he realized there was no economic or strategic value to Rwanda. b) The events of Rwanda and Darfur prove that not only does genocide continue to happen, the international community does not care enough to do anything of substance to stop it. This can be seen through the response of the United States, the actions of China, and the racist nature of certain countries. First, the events of Rwanda and Darfur prove the international community does not care enough to do…

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    The Rwandan Genocide took place over a span of 100 days, from April to July 1994, when the Hutu clan systematically slaughtered the Tutsi minority. Tensions between the two ethic groups had reached a crisis point, when the Hutu’s rebelled against the Tutsi rule and oppression by participating in a massacre of hundreds of thousands of Tutsi men, women and children. Approximately 1 million people were murdered over 100 days, equalling to 6-7 people per minute; and an added 300, 000 people died…

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    The West. The majority ethnic group, Hutus, slaughtered thousands of minority, Tutsis, and any Hutu moderates due to vengeance of the events leading up to the Presidential plane crash. The account of 10 killers in the Machete Season; The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld, portrays the killer’s conscientious…

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    both light and dark values are employed to differentiate between tense and calm situations. The use of black borders around certain frames were also employed to show the difference between a flashback and present times. The main story takes place in Rwanda and is about Deogratias after the genocide, with flashbacks that leads up to the story peppered throughout the book. Before the Rwandan genocide those who were Tutsi were discriminated against. Students were told that the Tutsi took advantage…

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    Rwanda Genocide Tension

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    power, which are all causes of the Rwandan genocide. The Rwandan genocide is one of the most brutal and bloodiest genocides of all time, resulting in over 800,000 deaths. The Rwandan genocide was a horrific mass murder that took place in Rwanda in the year of 1994. Rwanda was once run by the Tutsi population, until the Hutus gained…

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    could not take in what he was seeing around him. Bodies, bodies everywhere. Before the mass genocide the UN had gathered a couple of busses and went to a popular hotel to get their men. When they got there they saw hundreds of Tutsis standing around the hotel hoping for a way out. The UN commander took all of the Americans that were at the hotel and all of his men and left the Tutsis there to die. In the end the UN did help, but they came too late because at least two thirds of the Tutsis…

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