Interahamwe

president at the time. Even sexual assault was used often to dehumanize the Tutsis. (https://modernhistoryproject2012.wordpress.com/the-steps-to-genocidethis-thisi/) They used radio commercials to get children on their side, saying good kids from Interahamwe, little groups that go out and kill Tutsis with machetes. In a sense, the genocide started in 1993 when these events happened since the Hutus just killed random Tutsis. But being too unorganized, it couldn’t be counted as one just yet. To…

There have been many tragedies in the world, unfortunately the Rwandan Genocide fits into this category. After Rwanda’s colonial period the ruling Belgians of Rwanda favored the Tutsi minority over the Hutu majority, it caused increasing tension between the two ethnic groups that made up the Rwandan population. Hutu made up about 85% of the population and Tutsi made up the rest. Tension between the two groups later turned into great violence spread throughout the country. In July of 1962…

the culprits were. Some have blamed Hutu extremists, while others blamed leaders of the RPF.) Within an hour of the plane crash, the Presidential Guard together with members of the Rwandan armed forces (FAR) and Hutu militia groups known as the Interahamwe (“Those Who Attack Together”) and Impuzamugambi (“Those Who Have the Same Goal”)…

The word “sympathy” is often used to mean one person’s response to the suffering of another individual. By giving our sympathy, it means we send our compassion and pity to the individual. However, we usually have certain considerations before we give our sympathy. Stassen’s Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda has made people argue whether to throw out their sympathy or not. Deogratias, a teenager who gets trapped in the middle of the genocide tragedy that happened in Rwanda, gets criticisms as the…

The Rwandan Genocide When Belgium conquered Rwanda, they spit the citizens into different groups. Split up into three groups, the Tutsis, Hutus, and the Twa, the Belgians gave the Tutsis more power and believed they were superior. Right before Rwanda gained independence, the Belgians began giving the Hutus more and more power. When Rwanda gained independence in 1962, it left these made up ethnic groups in tension. After Rwanda gained independence, the ‘Hutu Power’ drove out the majorities of…

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…

population Hutus, 9 percent Tutsis and 1 percent smaller person. This happened over a time of one hundred days, from mid April to mid July of 1994. The greater part of the butchering was carried out by two Hutu great extremist groups called the Interahamwe…

having good uses of propaganda telling Hutus what they were doing was right, and telling Tutsi they deserved to die. They then had timely shipments of weapons when they needed them and had coordinated well planned out attacks against the Tutsi. The Interahamwe used all forms of media available to spread the Hutu power ideology. The message was clear: the Hutus were better than the Tutsis. When the President’s plane crashed, propaganda and media were used effectively and efficiently to blame the…

In 1994 over 800,000 people were killed in under one hundred days in the small African country of Rwanda. The genocide was the outburst of decades of tensions. Originally Rwanda was made up mostly of two classes, the Hutus, peasant farmers that made up about ninety-percent of the population, and the Tutsis, cattle owners that made up around nine percent of the population. When Europeans first came to Rwanda the Tutsis became the moderators between them and the other Rwandans. The European…

their power, the path to peace should be ended and their opponents annihilated. Dehumanisation of the Tutsi people became widespread, with newspapers and radio stations describing them as “cockroaches” and “snakes”. Extremist militias such as the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi were created from political factions, and trained in using several weapons, including machetes.1 Machetes were a ubiquitous weapon in the genocide – already being used in agriculture, and only costing around 10 cents…