Rwandan Genocide

Rwandan Genocide History has seen its share of civil wars, massacres, and failures. The most violent, perhaps, of the crimes have occurred more recently, in the 20th century. As war “etiquette” has relegated, the atrocities committed against human beings have evolved. A new manner of channeling anger and hatred of a certain group arose; genocide. The Armenian genocide was one of the first crimes committed against an ethnic or religious group. The deaths experienced, however, does not match the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. Most recently, just over 20 years ago, the world experienced yet another annihilation. The Rwandan Genocide, the systematic murder of Tutsi and fellow Hutu proprietors, is measured as one of the bloodiest…

the Security Council. In order to contextualise these ideas, this paper will primarily focus on the Rwandan Genocide. The United Nations (UN)…

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 total of 100 days? The International community is to be blamed much of the genocide in…

In 1993, the Rwandan Genocide was a major controversial issue in which the United Nations failed to provide abrupt support to the Tutsi tribe when Hutu extremists attempted to kill off all of the tribe. Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Kofi Annan, delivered a speech to the world stating, “All of us who cared about Rwanda…wish that we could have prevented the genocide” (Annan, 1998). Whether or not the UN did everything in their power to help the Hutu’s is a debatable issue still…

The Rwandan Genocide Background- In an article by Zack Beauchamp, he explains the cause of the tension between Tutsis and Hutus. When an economic split between two religious groups occurred conflict quickly arose. Hutus farmed crops however, Tutsis tended livestock. Cattle were more valuable than crops, therefore, the Tutsi population became a “local elite.” When Belgium took over land from Germany in 1917 a Tutsi group had been ruling the monarchy for some time. A German and Belgium rule…

The Rwandan Genocide refers to the systematically performed mass murders of the Tutsi people by their longstanding rivals the Hutu, in which approximately 1 million Tutsi people were killed in a quick and brutal manner by the predominant Hutu government. For as long as history in Rwanda has been recorded, there has always been a long standing feud between the Hutu (85% of the population) and the Tutsi (13% of the population) because of disputes about the Tutsi’s true origins and their distinctly…

Genocide is believed to be an exceptional and rare phenomena; yet, this is not the case. Gregory Stanton (2013) estimated that since the foundation of genocide watch started there has been around 70 million deaths across 45 genocides (Stokes and Gabriel, 2010). One of the most well-known being the Rwandan genocide. The nature of the Hutu and Tutsi’s historical pastoral or agricultural roles, suggest that the Tutsis were more commonly found to be landowners. Whereas, Hutus worked on the land,…

Throughout Rwandan history, there have been conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi. In 1933 the Belgium issue ID’s to the Hutu, Tutsi and Twa as a census. This forced them into racial categories which intensified the racial divide between the Hutu and Tutsi. The Rwandan Genocide occurred in 1994. During this time the ethnic majority, the Hutu, slaughtered the ethnic minority, the Tutsi. Up to one million people died during the 100 day genocide. There were years of discrimination of the Tutsi,…

The Rwandan genocide was a one hundred day slaughter of the Tutsi population. There were a number of factors leading up to this event and why nobody stopped the killings include worldly indifference, lack of information, fear of intervention, and the absence of resources and knowledge for help. In April 6th, 1994, an airplane holding President Habyarimana was shot down killing him and the rest of it’s passengers. Habyarimana was of the Hutu population and the Hutus believed that a member of…

around a million people. This genocide is defined as a genocide because it was planned before it actually occurred. The main purpose of this literature review is to figure out some of the main causes of the genocide through Rwanda’s history as a colony and the role of social constructivism, and the drive of Hutu elites to maintain their sovereignty supported by two journals by scholars Peter Uvin and Helen Hintjens. Each scholar explains the main influences of a nation that…