Rwandan Civil War

The Hutu had treated the Tutsi as if they were animals or vermin. The Tutsi race were depicted as “animals,” “haughty,” and a superiority complex. Also, the Hutus claimed them to not be Rwandans, but Ugandans who favored “ethnic perfection”. Many everyday and common sentences and phrases had been used to refer to the extermination of the Tutsi race. They had to say these things in code so that what they had said did not show any “red flags” to those who were witnessing what had been…

would endure the worst wars that Africa could have ever encountered. Through revenge and a desire to kill, these conflicts would arise through personal racialized and ethnicized history that were taught to them. Through the grievance of history these groups were driven to the breaking point, which ultimately ended with the annihilation of millions of people during and after the Rwandan genocide. The ethnic conflicts between these groups began long before the Rwandan genocide in 1994.…

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,…

Merriam-Webster defines genocide as “the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.” Some of the most infamous genocides include The Holocaust, Al-Anfal Genocide and the Rwandan Genocide. Due to the inaction of the international community, The Rwandan Genocide—a preventable event—is considered one of the greatest recent failures of international…

The Rwandan Genocide took place over a span of 100 days, from April to July 1994, when the Hutu clan systematically slaughtered the Tutsi minority. Tensions between the two ethic groups had reached a crisis point, when the Hutu’s rebelled against the Tutsi rule and oppression by participating in a massacre of hundreds of thousands of Tutsi men, women and children. Approximately 1 million people were murdered over 100 days, equalling to 6-7 people per minute; and an added 300, 000 people died…

Ethnic Cleansing Pain, suffering, murder, and hate are the catalysts that formulate genocide; in Rwanda, this was the case. 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the Rwandan genocide that began in 1959. Although the genocide seemed to happen out of nowhere, previous conflicts helped contribute to death of thousands of Rwandans. Ultimately, the colonization of Rwanda by Belgians, led to the separation of Hutus and Tutsis identifying them as two separate racial groups, which sparked the tribes to fight…

The 1994 Rwandan genocide was the result of an economic crisis, civil war, population growth and a struggle for state power. Rwanda’s population of more than 7 million people is divided into three ethnic groups, the Hutu roughly 85% of the population, the Tutsi (4% and the Twa 1%. The 100 days of violence resulted in the deaths between 500,000 and 1 million people of Rwanda's population had been killed, mostly by the Hutus. The Rwandan genocide has often been portrayed as an inevitable ethnic…

The evening of April 6 1994, marked the tragic assassination of the President of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana. Which was to become the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide. The international community must bear the majority of the blame for the genocide as they became bystanders to the systematic killings of over 800,000 innocent Tutsis, largely women and children. The question then must be asked: how can such a calamity, with more than 7 Tutsi men, women and children killed every minute, last a…

Before Deo was able to escape the harsh conditions of the civil war, he had no other choice but to stay in a refugee camp. Refugee camps aim to meet basic human needs, but the lack of space and infrastructure usually only allows refugees to settle temporarily. Most people seek refugee camps because they have escaped war in their home country and are seeking asylum that is granted in another country. These camps provide food and medicine; however, most people face infectious diseases and…

Bisesero. More were killed in the town's hospital and church” (Rosenberg). This killings started at the beginning of this month and that’s close to 70,000 Rwandans killed in just two days. This genocide is occurring in Rwanda, which is a very small country in the middle of Africa. “The civil war began when Rwandan exiles formed a group called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and launched an offensive against Rwanda from their home base in Uganda” (United to End Genocide), and “much of the…