Juvénal Habyarimana

The land of thousand hill, Rwanda the source of the Nile River (Aziz, 2015). Rwanda is a small African country. It is locate in central east African to the south a little bit of the equator. Rwanda has a diverse of natural attractions, there are a highlands of volcanic craters, meandering river valleys, since lakes and extended plains covered by grass. Also Rwanda has a nature reserve of rare animals. Rwanda is ancient country is dating back to 3000 years BC, the Twa, Hutu, and Tutsi are the…

"If the pictures of tens of thousands of human bodies being gnawed on by dogs do not wake us out of our apathy, I do not know what will," stated Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (Melvern 235). In 1994, the Rwandan Genocide, caused myriads of deaths within three months. A genocide is a crime and is meant to kill members of a group in society. Unfortunately, the majority of people today have little to no knowledge of the Rwandan Genocide. The United States should have…

In politics, intrigue and suspicion are always just around the corner or living under the surface. Despite being centuries apart and thousands of miles from one another, an important question is raised when one reads Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar and understands how the genocide in Rwanda, 1994 occurred. This connection revolves around key actors in both situations, and how they ignore advice from those around them. By listening and acting so, the results may have been different. Many of…

The word genocide can’t help but to strike a cord in the minds of people internationally. The connotation of the word is strong, an implicit call to action, but what if the word itself created more problems for conflict than solutions? A fatal flaw with genocide is the way the term has evolved away from being a legal definition of a crime, to a threshold of evil that can be manipulated to fit or not fit different actions. Genocide, while important, has the detrimental power to create a…