Juvénal Habyarimana

began on April 7th of 1994 and lasted for only a total of 100 days, ending in July, and was one of the heaviest moments in modern human history. It was sparked by an airplane crash on April 6th of 1994 which was carrying Ruwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira. The violence was an organized campaign against the Tutsi and Hutu civilians across the country. In just a matter of hours the Hutu rebels took over the capital and the streets of Kigali. The…

” (How do you define genocide?) are few of the many things that the Hutus did to the Tutsi people. Preventing all genocide should be a duty and a need for a global response. The Rwandan genocide began after a plane carrying then President Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, who were both Hutus, was shot down. The Rwandan Patriotic Front also known as RPF said, “the plane had been shot down by Hutus to provide an excuse for the genocide,” (Rwanda genocide:…

never fathom events similar to the Holocaust during World War II with the systematic killings of millions of people. Unfortunately, in 1994 in the African country of Rwanda, that is precisely what happened. The death of the Rwandan President, Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, is what sparked the genocide in 1994. Blamed for this was the current President, Paul Kagame, who at the time of the genocide was the Leader of a Tutsi rebel group, and his close partners for carrying out of the death of the…

As was previously mentioned, the Balkan War reflects one way of historicizing mass murder. The Bosnian Serb soldiers and militiamen commenced a campaign of compiling lists of leading Muslim and Croat intellectuals, musicians, and professionals summarily executing them led by President Slobodan Milosevic and General Ratko Mladic from 1992- 1995. The system of control extended beyond inflicting bodily harm and encompassed systems intended to restrict the life and movement of non- Serb civilians.…

The film Hotel Rwanda is based on true events. It portrays the plight and suffering of Rwandans – mainly the Tutsi peoples and "moderate" Hutus – during the Rwandan genocide accurately. However, the film is under controversy because of suspicion surrounding the portrayal Paul Rusesabagina and United Nations peacekeeper Romeo Dallaire's actions in the movie. Although some parts of the plot may be inaccurate as they allegedly over exaggerate certain aspects of the genocide, it is still an…

Bobby Chavez-Gates Coach Smith AP Human Geography 11/28/17 The Battle of the Mirror: Rwanda War Ethnicity refers to how one identifies themselves based on their cultural tradition and values. Race is the grouping of people based on similar physical traits, such as hair and skin color. Often times, complex and numerous ethnicities exists within the same land and even race; these differentiations assist in promoting discrimination, tensions, and sometimes war. Rwanda, in the mid 1900s,…

many immediate causes of the Rwandan Genocide. Just before the massacres began, the United Nations were brokering a peace agreement between the Hutu leaders and Tutsi rebels in Kigali. After the agreement was signed, the president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana, was killed when his plane was shot out of the sky by Tutsi rebels. The Interahamwe now began to say over the radio “We must cut the tall trees”, meaning they would kill the Tutsis. It was the beginning of the genocide and the unfolding…

Jean Hatzfeld, Machete Season: The Killers In Rwanda Speak trans. Linda Coverdale (New York, NY. Picador, 2000). Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, by Jean Hatzfeld, is the second book that he composed about reports of the events of the Rwandan genocide that occurred in spring of 1994 in a small African country called Rwanda. The first book, Into the Quick Life: Stories from the Rwandan Marshes, Hatzfeld tells of the events that took place during the genocide but from the perspective…

Environmental History is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time. Environmental history is a rather new discipline that came into being during the 1960’s and 1970’s. It came about as a direct consequence of the growing awareness of worldwide environmental problems. Some of important practitioners of environmental history are Donald Worster, Christian Pfister, and Peter Brimblecombe. Environmental history works by emphasizing the active role nature plays in influencing…

Final Exam Performance Task Questions: 1 - What event(s) from the past have directly impacted/led to your topic/event? 2 - What are two ways that your topic or event impacts/relates to modern day society? Main Idea Thesis: Although many people felt the assassination of the Hutu President led directly to the genocide, it was really because of the years of inequality between the Hutus and Tutsis. In modern day many Tutsi survivors found it difficult to live in Rwanda where the genocide…