Juvénal Habyarimana

Rwanda from October 1st, 1990 to August 4th, 1993. The war continued into a horrible genocide/massacre until July, 1994. The Rwanda Civil War took place within the central African nation of the country. The dispute was between the President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Entire families were killed at a time. Women were raped and murdered. The war did not end until the Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the RPF defeated the Hutu regime and President Paul kagame…

country divided by its people cannot be stable for long. Rwanda is divided into two main ethnic groups, the Tutsi (minority) and the Hutu (majority). Tensions were already high between the two groups, but the alleged assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana triggered the Rwandan Genocide on April 6, 1994. The Hutu started to kill the Tutsi, resulting in 800,000 casualties. Many would think that this event would leave to a larger split between the two groups, but the Rwandans believe that…

Peace was briefly negotiated in 1993, however there was left over tension. The damage inflicted and issues present were too great to simply forget; Compromise could not be reached. Both sides wanted a fight. And in 1994, when Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed in a plane crash supposedly caused by the RPF and a fight is exactly what transpired. This was the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide. Although many causes are attributed to the Rwandan Civil War, the rationalist explanation of…

the genocide. It was actually Belgian internationals who created the two ethnic classes, Tutsis were taller, had lighter skin, and generally looked European, whereas the Hutu were the majority of Rwanda. After the assassination of president Juvenal Habyarimana, who made efforts to create peace between the two races, Hutu extremists took this opportunity to unite other Hutus through manipulative rhetoric in propaganda. During the genocide, little outside help was given, leaving the civilians in…

Introduction The term ‘genocide’ did not exist before the Holocaust. Because of this, the Holocaust is often considered to have given rise to the notion of the term, ‘genocide.’ The Holocaust was an extreme form of genocide. Raphael Lemkin coined the term around 1944. He was a Polish-Jewish lawyer. The term came about because Lemkin needed a word to properly characterize the heinous crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators. The Holocaust has an immense lasting impact on the present-day…

discrimination against the Tutsi in Rwanda.(“Rwandan Genocide”)” began to invade Rwanda from the neighboring country of Uganda, flooding Rwanda and refueling the hate of Tutsis in Rwanda. (“Rwandan Genocide”) This aggression, combined with president Juvenal Habyarimana being shot out of the sky began the 100 day long Rwandan genocide. (“Rwanda: How…”) This event followed many of the Eight Stages of Genocide, namely laid out by Gregory H. Stanton, keeping in line with past and future…

Causes and Effects of the Rwandan Genocide The word ‘genocide’ originates from the Greek word ‘genos’ meaning tribe or race, and the Latin word ‘cide’ meaning killing (Cook 4). The Rwandan Genocide stands one of the worst massacres of its kind and one of the bloodiest wars in the history of the world (Cook 88). The genocide predominantly involved the slaying of the people of the Tutsi ethnic tribe. In just one hundred days, an approximately 800,000 Tutsis had been killed by the people of the…

Hutus. The Tutsis were perceived as the superior group in comparison to the Hutus, so the Belgians saw them as partners in enforcing Belgium law. In 1933, the Belgians mad identity cards that showed which ethnic group a person belonged to. Juvenal Habyarimana, who was a Hutu, was shot down from a plane in April when he was on his way to the capital of Rwanda, which was Kigali. This was planned by a Hutu extremist group that did not want…

and Steve Erwin 152). She attributes the cause of the war to the enmity between the Hutus and Tutsis since the latter group was more educated and successful compared to the former. The immediate cause of the war was the murder of President Juvenal Habyarimana, who was allegedly killed by the Tutsis. The Hutus believed that if they did not rise to their arms, the Tutsi would in return kill them. Further research on the history of the genocide reveals that the tension between the ethnic groups in…

revolt for the first time, killing 20000 Tutsi and "swept away the Tutsi monarchy" (Peterson 259). Since the monarchy was swept away form the revolution, the next step in the postcolonial era was who would run the country next? In July of 1973, Juvénal Habyarimana, a Tutsi, took over as defense minister of Rwanda, dissolving the Hutu party and freezing all political activities in the country…