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over twenty-two countries. They also have partnerships with developing countries and organizations to help spread their funding out as far as possible. Currently, Charity: Water, is working in northern Rwanda. They are funding projects in Kisaro, Kigali, Gitambi, and the surrounding areas. With the help of the Rwandan government, they have invested close to nine million dollars and have created water wells, pipe systems to spread the water out, rain water catchments, protectors for the wells,…

Genocide is one of the most immoral crimes any authority can commit. The definition of genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group, race or political status. Rwanda was one of many countries targeted by genocide. Rwanda is a the smallest country located in Africa which had strife between two major figures in the county, the Tutsis that and the Hutus. The genocide of Rwanda occurred in 1994, during the genocide the Hutus targeted…

eye-opening. Many years after Rwanda got independence from Belgium high crime and tension broke-out between the different types of Africans. It was a battle between the Hutu and Tutsi. Paul, a Hutu African man, was a manager at the luxury hotel in Kigali. Throughout the years he would go out of his way to please his guests and friends (mainly whites) in hopes of in a time of need he could count on them for help. Paul is married to a Tutsi and had 3 children, which were considered mixed. The…

The African country, Rwanda is divided up by two ethnic groups, Tutsi and Hutus. Tutsi made up about 15 percent of the population and the Hutus made up about 85 percent. Throughout the years both these group have had conflict between each other. The one that stands out the most is the Rwandan genocide. Rwanda can be broken up into three different topics,the events that lead up to the genocide, the genocide, and rebuilding process from the tragedy. The Hutu were people who farmed crops, while…

This paper explores how the Conflict of values, international systems, national interest, realism, and humanitarianism played a role in the Rwandan genocide. Although the Jewish genocide seems to be the worlds most remembered massacre of a people, the Rwandan genocide will go down in history as the fastest, If not the utmost vicious, massacre in the history of all humanity. For thousands of Tutsis, a catholic church is all that protects them, “No one gets killed in a church” this…

The Rwandan genocide was when the majority of the Hutu population tried to kill the minority of the Tutsi population. On April 6, 1994, a Hutu, Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was shot down above Kigali airport by an unknown missile. Paul Kagame was blamed for his death as he was the leader of a Tutsi rebel group where many were thought to have carried out the attack. The Hutus used Habyarimana's death as an excuse to begin a 100-day slaughter beginning…

divided the Rwandan Nation very strongly. In the 1960's, Hutu oppression towards the Tutsi and the number of attacks made against them increased. The Tutsi rebels attacked back during this time period with the most successful attack made in 1963 outside Kigali, the Rwandan capital. In 1967 20,000 Tutsi lost their lives as a result of oppression and discrimination and 200,000 of them fled from Rwanda as refuygees to surrounding countries. From 1967 to 1973, after the invasions stopped, the…

Rwandan Genocide Unresolved tension and conflicts has always been a big cause on warfare in the world. Warfare is always destructive, and effects the people for a longtime. Genocide however always has a long lasting effect not only on the country that has suffered from the it, but the world. The Rwandan Genocide didn't last long like the Holocaust. It was the shortest genocide in history with fatal results. The Rwandan Genocide was cause by inter-racial tension in the country. This conflicted…

normal fashion. This involved having no conflict and simply getting along with one another. (Wikipedia. 2016). Paul Rusesabagina was an amazing indivual during the terrible massacre. He had a job, as a hotel manager at the Hotel des Mille Collins in Kigali, Rwanda. Paul hid and protected 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees in the hotel. (MyHero.com. 2016). He had a feature presentation made about him, made in 2004. It was called ‘Hotel Rwanda’ and received much acclaim from audiences and critics. The…

Rwanda Barley 1 “In Rwanda one person's God is another persons Satan.” - Karl Maier. That quote from Karl Maier best explains the situation of war that took place in Rwanda from October 1st, 1990 to August 4th, 1993. The war continued into a horrible genocide/massacre until July, 1994. The Rwanda Civil War took place within the central African nation of the country. The dispute was between the President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Entire families were…