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    Hotel Rwanda Hotel Rwanda is a horrifying story, but yet every 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…

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    during the unknown Rwanda Genocide, in only 100 days. This conflict was between two racial groups, the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis. Racially, religiously, and socially unjust people who believe they are superior inspire genocides. The Rwanda Genocide was organized, by using ideas to bring Hutu fear and hatred towards the Tutsis. Once the Hutus learned to hate the Tutsis, the government managed to create acts of hunting, raping, and killing, which lead to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. The…

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    The ethnic tension in Rwanda is caused by two groups: the Hutu and the Tutsis. When Belgian colonized Rwanda they gave out identification cards to classify the natives by ethnicity. The Belgian’s favored the Tutsis despite the majority of the people being Hutus. So the Tutsis’ had access to better jobs and educational opportunities due to the Belgians favoritism. This caused the Hutu to resent the Tutsis. There are practically no differences between the two groups. They both share the same…

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    and the Hutu though that they should be because they had more in numbers. The Hutus thought they were supposed to be the rulers of Rwanda so they had begun the eight stages of a genocide. After the genocide had ended, the Hutus had continues a smaller amount of killing to cover up the fact that a genocide had occurred. Based on fear and governmental attacks in Rwanda, the Hutus committed acts of genocide against the Tutsi during a 100 day massacre in 1994. Genocide is a deliberate killing of…

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    people to another group of people. The genocide in Rwanda was one of the worst causes in African history. There are several causes and a lot of people involved with brutal outcomes in Rwanda genocide. There are several causes leading to genocide in Rwanda. The genocide was sparked when the plane of the president of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu was shot down above the Kigali airport on April 6 1994. The French judge blamed the current Rwanda President Paul Kagame because they thought that…

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    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…

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    both light and dark values are employed to differentiate between tense and calm situations. The use of black borders around certain frames were also employed to show the difference between a flashback and present times. The main story takes place in Rwanda and is about Deogratias after the genocide, with flashbacks that leads up to the story peppered throughout the book. Before the Rwandan genocide those who were Tutsi were discriminated against. Students were told that the Tutsi took advantage…

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    place for a period of 100 days in 1994. It involved mass execution of Hutus and Tutsis. The people were killed by extremist. During this genocide, the president of Rwanda was also killed and also During this genocide, about 70% of Tutsi people living in Rwanda were…

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    Throughout history the world has experienced countless acts of mass violence and brutality. That being said few of these instances have rivaled that of the Rwandan genocide. In the early days of April 1994 until mid July of that same year upwards of 800,000 people were murdered, a rate that surpassed the Nazis in their killing of the Jews during the Holocaust. The perpetrators of these murders were a Rwandan ethnic group called the Hutu and their victims were not only of a separate ethnic…

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    murder of all the Tutsi people in Rwanda. It began April 6th 1994 when the president, Juvenal Habyarimana, died when his plane was shot down by a Tutsi rebel group. The genocide took out nearly 1 million Tutsi people, which is about 3/4 of the Tutsi population. Before Rwanda gained independence they were ruled by the Belgians. The Belgians believes that Tutsis were superior to Hutus which is why when they were in charge, the Tutsis were put in power. When Rwanda gained independence the Hutus…

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