Kigali

members of the opposition parties were deemed traitors. On April 6th 1994, as Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana returned from a round of talks in neighboring Tanzania, he was killed when his plane was shot down outside of the country’s capital, Kigali. The president’s death provided a spark for an organized campaign of violence against Tutsi and moderate Hutu civilians across the country. In this 100 day period an estimated 800,000 people died. The country of Rwanda is still recovering from…

There have been many tragedies in the world, unfortunately the Rwandan Genocide fits into this category. After Rwanda’s colonial period the ruling Belgians of Rwanda favored the Tutsi minority over the Hutu majority, it caused increasing tension between the two ethnic groups that made up the Rwandan population. Hutu made up about 85% of the population and Tutsi made up the rest. Tension between the two groups later turned into great violence spread throughout the country. In July of 1962…

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…

Folkes (2002) expressed that “TFT is both rapid and non-invasive, requiring clients to disclose to the facilitator only as much of their ‘story’ as they feel comfortable or able to tell” (p. 99). Due to varying cultural norms and the nature of trauma, TFT is an appropriate choice for treatment and for any client who has difficulty telling their trauma story, such is the case of many Rwandan women. The study by Folkes “suggests that TFT significantly reduced the overwhelming emotions resulting…

upstander in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He was the only American that stayed throughout the 100-day massacre of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and tries to protect his friend in Rwanda and the kids that lived there and help the people living in Kigali during the brutal times of war. The genocide was the result of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s death in a plane crash in 1994, according to the United Nations. A Hutu himself, Habyarimana’s assassination sparked the Hutus. The…

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 killings continued until the “Hutu Power” movement’s defeat. The extremist Hutus strategy turned into an extermination campaign against the Ruwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). The RPF fought back as the violence grew more extreme…

had a center in Kigali, which is in the middle of Rwanda in 1990. In Kigali, they had a makeshift hospital, first aid supplies and transport. Their job was to offer aid to orphans, detainees and general victims affected by the war. Red Cross stayed in Rwanda to look after and care for wounded Tutsis, without discrimination. The International Committee of the Red Cross played a key role in the Rwandan Genocide. They had ambulances to pick up survivors and bring them back to Kigali. Every day they…

up 15% of the population (White). Of course the country had always been divided between the two groups but it had not separated Rwanda like it was about to. The RPF waited two days and the violence had not stopped so they started for the capital, Kigali. The RPF knew the violence wouldn’t stop until they got to the capital and took control of it, and that was their plan. Unorganized Hutu armies commonly used the term “exterminate” when talking of killing the Tutsi and referred to them as…

The Rwandan Genocide is unquestionably among the great tragedies of human history. In the short time span of just over 3 months, roughly 800,000 Tutsis were killed in Rwanda, marking the swiftest mass slaughter on global record and outpacing any other genocide in the world’s history. Ghosts of Rwanda, a documentary film published by the investigative journalism program FRONTLINE, examines the political and diplomatic failures that united to enable the genocide to occur. The realist approach…

Children in Rwanda became orphans because of the Rwanda genocide and the spread of HIV/AIDS. During the Rwandan genocide many people were killed, including family members leaving the children without any parents. With the spread of HIV/AIDS, family members also died from it, so the children in Rwanda became orphans. Some orphans are placed in extended families or fostering households. If they did not have anyone, then they were placed in the orphanages. Being an orphan in Rwanda came from the…