Hutu

Since becoming a superpower, the United States has often fought for its interests through tactics that many consider morally questionable. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and WWII began. On December 7, 1941, Japan dropped bombs on the United States’ naval base at Pearl Harbor, and the United States joined the war. In 1943, American scientists worked to develop the atomic bomb in hopes of ending the war. When Truman became President, he had to make the world changing decision of…

Intolerance Essay Intolerance and oppression have confronted humans as far has history has been recorded. It dates back as far as 18500 BC. Jews, homosexuals, muslims, gypsies, women, prisoners of war, disabled, africans, all of these and more religious and ethnic have been suppressed one time or another throughout history. History is able to show how far humans have progressed and what we are still lacking in. Looking through all the horrendous acts of intolerance against humans shows us all…

After the Rwandan genocide began, Tutsis were seeking refuge in neighbor Zaire, where ethnic Tutsis were also present in the eastern region of the country. Laurent Kabila then leaded the Tutsis from south Kivu against Hutu forces. Thus starting the Congo war. With the support of neighbor countries Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi and their new leaders, Kabila started a rebellion against Mobutu’s regime. He fought for a more democratic regime with his army the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the…

Nonetheless, certain minerals such as tungsten, tin and tantalum are needed to create smartphones, and oftentimes they were exported from DRC. “Roughly a quarter of the tantalum ore mined in the first decade of the twenty-first century came from the Congo, but coltan itself is a phenomenon specific to the Congo.” (Kinniburgh, 2014). In other words, without the resources from Congo, the market demand of smartphone could not be fulfilled. Only by the existence of global commodity chains―where…

For centuries, human rights were less considered by those people who are more fortunate than the others, especially during the Middle Ages. In a manner and way of speaking, more fortunate in terms of money, estate and even power; while for those people of whom we can consider to be less fortunate, are degraded and underestimated. They were scarcely taken care of and even sometimes ‘used’ by those people who have all the time and power in the world (Brett, 1998). They became slaves and did a pile…

In addition to the direct failures of the intervention, we can learn a great deal about the American failure through the consequences of Somalia. Domestic politics drives foreign policy, and in the case of Somalia, the domestic backlash sheds light on what was a step in the wrong direction for security as seen through Presidential Decision Directive 25. After the tragedy of the battle of Mogadishu and Black Hawk Down, President Clinton was facing mounting domestic pressure to ‘bring the boys…

past century the world was unfortunate to witness genocides such as the Holocaust conducted by the Nazis in Germany which as one Wikipedia article states, “some six million European Jews were killed” and the genocide in Rwanda against the Tutsi by the Hutu where over eight hundred thousand Tutsi’s were slaughtered because they supported a different political party, therefore, from these two examples it is accurate to claim the atrocities done towards the Native populations by the Spanish as…

Many immoral acts that negate humanity occurred throughout WWII. WWII started in 1939 and lasted until 1945 and over the course of six years, many inhumane events took place, such as, the Rape of Nanking, the Holocaust, and Pearl Harbor. Once again, countries were split into two groups– the Allies and the Axis Powers. The Allies consisted of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. The Axis power consisted of Japan, Italy, and Germany. WWII started when Adolf Hitler broke the…

The Rwanda Genocide of 1994 was an international disaster and the question of how much the international community was to blame for it has been debated to this day. Sure, the Rwandans who organised and executed the actual genocide must be fully responsible, but the word genocide implicates everyone. Governments and powerful people failed to prevent and halt the killing campaign. Everyone shared the shame of the crime. Belgium withdrawing their troops and leaving the peacekeeping force; the US…

Canada has contributed so much towards the United Nations that it is one of the main reasons why it is so big and not another League of Nations. In June 1956 when the leader of Egypt took the Suez Canal Britain, France and eventually the U.S stepped in and Went to war with Egypt. When the crisis started Canadians eagerly seized the opportunity for the UN services and lead by Lester B. Pearson the first UN peacekeeping mission was done, awarding Pearson with a Nobel Prize. Canada was one of the…