Paul Kagame

The State of Affairs in Africa has always created stereo-types as a doomed continent with unavoidable tribal conflict and ethnic cleavages. It’s hard to understand why there were so many wars and instability in Africa in the late 90’s. Over the last four decades, nearly twenty African countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa area have experienced at least one form of war. The biggest and deadliest war was the Rwandan genocide. Most of the wars occurred because of influences Europeans had on African…

Sociological research has studied the implementation and effects of transitional justice mechanisms on societies recovering from mass atrocities like genocide, but little is known about the attitudes of victims before the transitional justice mechanisms are implemented. This article analyzes over 1,500 interview responses from Darfuri genocide victims living in refugee camps in eastern Chad to assess the relationship between their exposure to violence and their punitive attitudes towards…

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…

Help the Rwandans On April 6, 1994 the United States and the United Nations stood by and watched the Rwandan Hutus wipe out 800,000 Tutsis. I believe that the US could’ve helped the Rwandans during the brutal genocide. First the United States has the UN on their side and could use them to get the Rwandans help. Second since we had the UN on our side, we had plenty of knowledge of their situation. The US could of helped the Rwandans and reduced the amount of deaths that had happened. Remember…

In “Of Studies”, Francis Bacon explores the benefits and consequences associated with studies and to what degree they should be used. He claims that “histories make men wise”, which in the context of the Rwandan genocide, seems to mean learning and making an effort to understand the tragedies that occurred there (Bacon 10). To study the historical implications of an event so widely interpreted has the potential to challenge existing opinions about global society and the implications of such a…

In Rwanda, Africa, the year 1994 was probably the most terrific year for the nation's history. More than 800,000 Tutsi were brutally massacred at the machetes of Hutu while the entire world stood by and watched. What was the reason of this conflict? How was it possible to allow for such escalation of hatred? The main reason of such a tragedy can be tied to European colonialism in Rwanda. The Europeans succesfully birthed an ethnic divide between the Hutu (85% of Rwandan polulation) and Tutsi…

The movie “Shake Hands with the Devil” is a true story about the brutal history of the Rwandan genocide. It is originally a book that was written by Romeo Dallaire; who is a Canadian humanitarian, and retired senator, that served as a force commander of UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda). The movie shows tragic scenes of how the feud between the Hutus and Tutsis affected their way of living harshly. Overall, the validity of the film is quite high, however, it contains…

The Rwandan Raze The Rwandan genocide was like a firecracker, fast, explosive, and over in a flash. “Most of the killing was carried out by two Hutu radical militant groups: the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi,(“Rwandan genocide”)” supported by the Rwandan government. Though it lasted only 100 days, 800,000 people were killed, causing this event to be classified as a full scale genocide, a genocide being when one group of people, targets and kills mass amounts of people from another, ethnic,…

The 1994 Rwanda Genocide was a 100-day slaughter that took place in the African country Rwanda. It was a mass murder of minority Tutsi and some Hutu in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority. Approximately 500,000-1,000,000 Rwandans were killed by the Hutu. This was one of the worst genocides in history, and the effects are still evident more than 20 years later. The genocide created many problems in the country on top of the already existing problems. But it did create an almost natural…

Vengeance does not bring justice. There is no way to make up for millions of lives lost. After a genocide the most important question is how to achieve justice in the aftermath. Governments have struggled throughout history with how to put back together their countries after these tragedies tear them apart. Finding justice legally and putting perpetrators on trial is routinely the first step taken. Even if justice can be achieved in the court system, truth and education have a vital role in…