Rwandan Genocide

Did the genocide do any good to Kigali, Rwanda or did it bring it to its worst? A genocide has occurred in the capital, Kigali. The Rwandan genocide started from April 7, 1994 to July 1994. The Hutu massacred a ton of Tutsis and politically moderate Hutu people. By the end of the genocide, it estimates that anywhere between 800,000 – 1 million killed, with another 2 million refugees held in refugee camps. The Rwandan genocide has been prepared for years. In 1959-1960 tension erupted between…

Causes and Effects of the Rwandan Genocide The word ‘genocide’ originates from the Greek word ‘genos’ meaning tribe or race, and the Latin word ‘cide’ meaning killing (Cook 4). The Rwandan Genocide stands one of the worst massacres of its kind and one of the bloodiest wars in the history of the world (Cook 88). The genocide predominantly involved the slaying of the people of the Tutsi ethnic tribe. In just one hundred days, an approximately 800,000 Tutsis had been killed by the people of the…

Issues The Rwandan genocide was an atrocity that marked an age of unrest and violence in Central Africa. A nation unbalanced for years had finally imploded, leading to the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis. This genocide was the result of multiple things, creating instability, and unbalancing the relationship between the Tutsis and the Hutus. Tensions built up for decades were finally released. While many would blame Belgium, Germany, and colonization for catalyzing the genocide,…

Between eight hundred thousand and one million people, dead within a span of one hundred days. This was the number of deaths that occurred during the tragic event of The Rwandan Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide was a very tragic event that began in April 1994 and went on until July 1994. This conflict involved two different groups, the Tutsi’s and the Hutu’s. The Tutsi’s were treated as higher class citizens and the Hutu’s were considered lower class citizens and they were not happy about it. The…

of degrading the targeted group, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. Dehumanization can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide. Dehumanization is prevalent in almost every case of genocide, the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide are two very good examples. Jews in the Holocaust were treated as subhuman and murder so germans would benefit. The Hutus were dehumanized and killed so Tutsis could prove superiority and gain…

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 and Belgium Trouble ensued when Belgium took control of Rwanda. Dividing people into groups, such as Tutsis and Hutus, caused political conflict. These conflicts eventually led to the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Belgium separated Tutsis from the Hutus to form a political system and to strengthen their control, but it was flawed because the division was based on solely physical characteristics. they were the minority, Tutsis were considered the upper class, and Hutus the lower…

and treating the Hutu like they were peasants (Peace Pledge Union Information). The genocide was not a simple matter of mutual hatred between tribes erupting into irrational violence. The killings were planned in advance by a clique close to the President himself (Fisanick). In the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 more than five hundred thousand people died within one hundred days. The key event that started the genocide, although not the only reason, was the assassination of the president of Rwanda,…

Tragedy struck in 1994. The Rwandan President was killed when his plane had been shot down. The presidents death ignited for an organized campaign against Tutsi (a member of a people forming a minority of the population of Rwanda and Burundi, who formerly dominated the Hutu majority). In a matter of hours, Hutu rebels surrounded the capital and took control over it. Within days. The Rwandan leadership had been destroyed and so began this 100 day long genocide. When Leonard Rurangirwa was 18 he…

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…