Hutu

A place where one can feel at home when home is not a home anymore. For some it is a different country. This would be the case former national champion Gilbert Tuhabonye. Gilbert is a survivor of the brutal Civil War in Burundi, Africa between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes. Author Michael Hall, in the article,…

The fight between the Tutsis and the Hutus displayed in the movie “Hotel Rwanda” was one of the most graphic genocides in history. It started in 1994 and over 800,000 people between the Hutus and the Tutsis have died as a result of this genocide. The Holocaust killed over 20 million Jews and people of other descents who weren’t light colored skin with blonde hair and blue eyes. The UN and other organizations truly failed to help those who were affected by the events of the Rwandan genocide and…

Nationalism is a shared feeling between a group of a geographical and demographic region seeking independence for its culture or ethnicity. Nationalism can be expressed as a belief or a political ideology that involves an individual becoming attached to one’s nation. The interest of a nation as a whole held to be an independent entity separate from the interests of subordinate areas or groups and also of other nations or supranational groups. An extent of nationalism can only be pursued by…

The majority of the deaths involved members of the Tutsi tribe who were murdered by members of Hutu (Ulrich & Thomas, 2014). The writer personally has heard Rwanda genocide survivors express how immediate family members were raped and murdered. The genocide separated many families and many survivors have not returned to their countries and were…

not have happened. If people would have just realized that they were not better or above these people then perhaps the Holocaust would have never happened. Anti-Semitism is much like the racism we saw during the Civil War in the United States or the Hutu massacre of Tutsis. Even today, we see discrimination all throughout our world. Not only from citizens, but from the media as well, adding onto the threat of prejudice. Instead of focusing on how wrong discrimination is and using their platform…

can become animalistic killers. People are all capable of evil and good and we are a mix of both. Paul mentions what happens when he sees a killer from the genocide again “I saw a familiar face in the crowd. It was a man I hadn’t seen in years, a Hutu neighbor of mine from the Kabeza neighborhood where my family and I had lived . I had seen him in the opening days of the genocide wearing an Army uniform and carrying a machete. It seems likely that he participated in some murders, or at a…

Nuremberg Trials The Nuremberg Trials were held by the four major Allies of World War II which included the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. After the war was over, Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Leader, Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the U.S., and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain signed the Moscow Declaration which stated that the Axis power were to take responsibility for the war. In 1943 US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson got the four…

Drunk people are not the only ones who slur. Hate crimes are typically acts of violence motivated by racial, sexual, and other prejudice. Stereotypical classification is also a main contributor to the acts of aggression known as hate crimes. Racial slurs are acts of vicious slander that purposely single out someone’s differences to make them feel inadequate. There are several degrees of hate crimes that range anywhere from a distasteful comment, to a premeditated murder. Racial slurring is fuel…

“What commonalities are seen in genocide we have studied”? The commonality I have seen in genocide that they all have a common goal, which is to eliminate the race or races that are believed to be inferior. Examples of past genocides are the Holocaust, Rwandan, Cambodian, and Bosnian. However, for genocide to occur eight steps must proceed according to Gregory H. Stanton. Subsequently, genocides do not happen in a day; they take months if not years to prepare for a mass killing to eventually…

In his story, “Running for His Life,” Michael Halls tells the life story of Gilbert Tuhabonye, a young boy from Burundi. As a child he went through a traumatic event, a holocaust. The Hutu people set fire to his school, killing many tribe’s people. He tried to commit suicide during this but he was stopped by a voice he heard. It was telling him that he didn't want to kill himself, so he stopped himself, escaped and has scars to remind him of his horrible past. Even though he lived through such…