Juvénal Habyarimana

Throughout life, major events that occur are often a result of a series of built up incidents and a single action taken place can cause immense devastation, yet reversible. Genocide is officially defined by the United Nations as committing an act with the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group...” the Rwandan Genocide exemplifies this perfectly. The tension between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis who are the two most common ethnic groups…

The Rwandan Come Back Imagine having an event change, completely dividing a country. Imagine turning on your friends and family just because they are taller or have a different color skin. It is hard to, isn’t it? A little country in Africa, the size of Vermont, has been through this. Rwanda was a country that was divided by violence and genocide. But after years of suffering they have outgrown the aftermath and united again. I picked the song Heartbeat by The Fray that mentioned these aspects…

The failure of the UN to act upon the reports of genocide in Rwanda caused an innumerable amounts of killing and anarchy. The problems started with the Belgium’s discrimination between the two populations. Going as far as to hire scientists to prove the Tutsi superiority, they only enabled the already present racism between the two groups. Then the Hutu population decided to act. After the president was shot down, supposedly by Hutu extremists, the anarchy began. The Hutu people was responsible…

Since the government was led by the Hutu, they claimed that all of the Tutsi people were accomplices of the RPF, and also that any and all Hutu members of opposite parties were considered traitors. On April 6th of 1994, the Rwandan President, Juvenal Habyarimana, was killed after his plane was shot down. The Hutus blamed Tutsi rebels for this tragic accident. Within a day or so, the Hutu took down those who were leaders in Rwanda. This was just the beginning of all the tragedy and violence of…

Following the Second World War, Canada has made various efforts to improve its peacekeeping reputation; beginning with them joining the United Nations (UN) after its creation in 1945 they were mostly successful (“Canada and the United Nations.”). However, not all of their efforts have been successful; they have also made some mistakes along the way. Canada’s efforts within the last 60 years include the Suez Crisis in 1956, the United Nations Mission for Rwanda from 1993 to 1996 and United…

The Rwandan Genocide refers to the systematically performed mass murders of the Tutsi people by their longstanding rivals the Hutu, in which approximately 1 million Tutsi people were killed in a quick and brutal manner by the predominant Hutu government. For as long as history in Rwanda has been recorded, there has always been a long standing feud between the Hutu (85% of the population) and the Tutsi (13% of the population) because of disputes about the Tutsi’s true origins and their distinctly…

HBO film, Sometimes in April, gives an account of the Rwandan Genocide through the experiences of two brothers and gives the audience an overview of how and why it occurred. On April 6 1994, a plane that was carrying the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down. Hutu extremists blamed the RPF, a Tutsi rebel group. The RPF claim this provided the excuse for the Hutu’s to begin the genocide they were planning. There were lists already prepared of Tutsi’s to be killed, and ID cards…

got thrown back into turmoil, claiming about 25,000 Tutsi civilians. This sparked killings of Hutu, killing about 50,000 over a couple of months. Rwanda, 1994: In April, Burundian president Cyprian Ntaryami, a Hutu, and Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, also a Hutu, was killed when their plane was shot down. After this, tens Of thousands of Hutus had fled to Rwanda from Barundi. Blame for the assassination has been Pointed to both Hutu and Tutsi extremists; current Rwandan…

The evening of April 6 1994, marked the tragic assassination of the President of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana. Which was to become the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide. The international community must bear the majority of the blame for the genocide as they became bystanders to the systematic killings of over 800,000 innocent Tutsis, largely women and children. The question then must be asked: how can such a calamity, with more than 7 Tutsi men, women and children killed every minute, last a…

In April 1994, a plane transporting the Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, was shot down which had in turn sparked the death of many Hutu and Tutsi civilians. Since this time, many books have been published about the killings that had occurred in Rwanda, focusing on the 1990s, most of the authors start their investigation on the history of Rwanda's, attempting to find explanations and the political factors that implemented the 1994 genocide. There is a large speculation about the definition…