Juvénal Habyarimana

The United Nations is an important intergovernmental organization that was established after World War II to prevent any such conflict of occurring again. Over time, the U.N has grown not only in size but in importance to global events. Currently there are 193 member states, all who finance and contribute to it whether it be money or armed forces. The objectives of the U.N include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development,…

Humanitarian intervention has been to the forefront of international relations since the end of the Cold-War. I believe it is critical in protecting human rights and providing emergency assistance in states where human-rights violations are being perpetrated, similar to that stated in ‘Humanitarian Intervention and Peace Operations’ by Theo Farrell. It is difficult to define humanitarian intervention, as not all States agree on what is to be included in characterising and defining intervention.…

In July of 1973, Tutsi Defence General Juvénal Habyarimana attacked Kayibana, and took over Rwanda, the Tutsi people once again held control of Rwanda. Outcry from the Hutu people came when the Tutsi held all positions in professional fields such as education or medicine. Tutsi people were forced to give up their jobs and many were killed. Slowly Habyarimana brought back many of Kayibana’s policies ultimately favoring the Hutu over the Tutsi. Habyarimana sought to create peace and unity in the…

With tear filled eyes, I write about one of the worst genocides in African history. In Kigali, Rwanda, Spring of 1994 over eight-hundred thousand people were massacred in the streets surrounding the Milles Collines Hotel. This hotel ran by Paul Rusesabagina became shelter to 1,268 Tutsi and Hutu refugees. In December 2004, Terry George releases the film Hotel Rwanda which not only captivates its audience but revisits the mass murderers that the global community collectively turned a blind eye…

being racially superior and because of this they were able to have better jobs, more rights and have a higher education. The Hutus were racially inferior and were forced to do labour. The genocide began with the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu. He was shot down in a plane on the 6th of April 1994. The Hutus had blamed the Tutsis and the Tutsis had blamed the Hutus. The Tutsis had said that the Hutus had murdered him in order to provide an excuse to carry out their plan…

himself (Fisanick). In the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 more than five hundred thousand people died within one hundred days. The key event that started the genocide, although not the only reason, was the assassination of the president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana. He was returning from a summit in Tanzania when a missile shot his plane out of the sky over the capital city of Rwanda, Kigali, all on board were killed in the crash. The Hutu extremists took over the government within twenty-four…

consisted of Tutsi, and the government of Rwanda, but tensions rose once again when the Melchior Ndadaye, the first Hutu president, was assassinated and the murders of one hundred thousand Hutus occurred. On the 7th of April 1994, President Juvenal Habyarimana and the second president of Burundi both died in a suspicious plane crash, after the plane crash took place, Belgian UN peacekeepers were taken and separated from the other peacekeeper and were murdered by Hutu extremists. The definition…

the invasion of the Rwandan patriotic front (FPR), a Tutsi rebel group, and the civil war of the early 1990s. The Hutu elite also had to protect their power would not be taken away by the FPR. In guaranteeing stability, the Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana along with a group of powerful Hutu politicians and closest friends in “administration and the army” used discrimination and crime towards the Tutsi to maintain absolute power (Uvin, 79). The fact that politicians in power were committing…

Over 800,000 dead bodies of slaughtered Rwandan men, women and children were found sprawled out across lawns and streets of neighborhoods for 100 days (Smith, et al. 113-114). The Hutu president of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana was killed in a plane that got shot down. His assassination sparked the beginning of a genocide between the Hutu and Tutsi groups. Paul Rusesabagina is a mix of both, his father is Hutu and his mother is Tutsi. Since his father is Hutu and bloodlines are passed from father…

Did the genocide do any good to Kigali, Rwanda or did it bring it to its worst? A genocide has occurred in the capital, Kigali. The Rwandan genocide started from April 7, 1994 to July 1994. The Hutu massacred a ton of Tutsis and politically moderate Hutu people. By the end of the genocide, it estimates that anywhere between 800,000 – 1 million killed, with another 2 million refugees held in refugee camps. The Rwandan genocide has been prepared for years. In 1959-1960 tension erupted between…