Rwandan Patriotic Front

Rwanda: A Melting Pot of 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…

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 power in Rwanda. A few ways both the…

In addition, the government’s rejection of ethnic identifiers for genocide identifiers brought about a disregard of victimized Hutus who suffered at the hands of the Interhamwe and blamed them for the genocide, isolating Hutu survivors from Tutsi survivors and splitting the victims left alive in society. The Rwanda government changed the way it identified people, from an ethnic identifier to a genocidal identifier. According to Zorbas, “Dropping the ethnic labels in favor of a ‘genocide…

the African country, Sierra Leone. As young teenagers, the group of boys left their hometown to perform in a talent show in Mattru Jong, the next village over. While they were away, their hometown was attacked by rebels from the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). After hearing about the inconceivable violence, the group immediately started on their pilgrimage back home, in hope to find their families alive and well. Unfortunately, they quickly realized that the journey was far too dangerous for…

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states every individual 's inalienable rights, but it is not physically enforced by the United Nations. After the Holocaust, which was one of the most gruesome genocides to date, the United Nations decided that there needed to be a declaration of universal rights that belongs to everyone. Today, many years after the Holocaust, the United Nations still declares the articles in the Universal Human Rights inalienable, yet these rights are still violated…

hundred days between 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were butchered by their Hutu neighbours between April and July, 1994. While the exact reasons behind what initiated the genocide are debated, a greater discussion is occurring for Rwandan genocide perpetrators, survivors and the new youth generation is on how ethnic-based identities were crafted.…

Thesis: Within the endless sands crossing between, the decaying Ottoman Empire, millions of Armenians were sent on to their deaths by being forced across these sands by the Turkish government. In Chris Bohjalian, Sandcastle Girls, he creates a fictional novel that showcases these atrocities, while entwining the story into personable characters and an engaging story. The thesis of Sandcastle Girls is to create a fictional love story, which allows the reader to gain an understanding of the events…

toll on one’s body. No one can recover going through something as horrible as genocide or politicide. “I don’t feel that comfortable with life. I cannot think beyond the present anymore” (Hatzfeld 26). This quote comes from a woman who survived the Rwandan genocide. Her life will never be the same. She can never trust a stranger ever again, she has nightmares of what she has seen almost every night, unless she speaks about what happened with someone on that day, and she doesn’t feel safe, even…

Carl Wilkens is the director of World Outside My Shoes and upstander in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He was the only American that stayed throughout the 100-day massacre of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and tries to protect his friend in Rwanda and the kids that lived there and help the people living in Kigali during the brutal times of war. The genocide was the result of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana’s death in a plane crash in 1994, according to the United Nations. A Hutu himself…

It was not until I was in tenth grade that I was exposed to the Rwandan Genocide. This event happened only a year before I was born, yet I had never heard of it. It was only in an integrated English and History class that the tragic events of 1994 became known to me. Two other classmates and I were given the task of researching, gathering the facts, and then teaching our fellow students about the atrocities that took the small country of Rwanda by storm. While other groups were learning and…