Rwandan Patriotic Front

Tutsis were murdered by the ethnic Hutus because of an event that took place in 1994. It all started when a plane that was holding the president was shot down. The Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) was blamed for the flight crashing, as the Hutus responded to the crash…

Good afternoon everyone, I want to begin by thanking everyone for the opportunity to be standing here and talk to you, about the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. As a survivor of that genocide, it has been hard, not only for me, but also for several others to get it over our heads. I lost my father, who’s face I can’t even recall, my cousins, my aunts and uncles, etc. You can imagine how hard it will be for me to tell my kids who their grand father was. So to begin, where is Rwanda? the country is…

The Impact of the Rwandan Genocide In 1994, the tiny country of Rwanda was disrupted with brutal violence, and saw the killing of nearly one million people in a period of one-hundred days. It was a genocide, the mass murder of Africans that resided in Rwanda. The aftermath of the loss left survivors traumatized and foreigners felt ashamed in their inability to intervene in the catastrophe. During the massacre, Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, was appointed as force commander to the United…

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 hatred between…

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 When Belgium conquered Rwanda, they spit the citizens into different groups. Split up into three groups, the Tutsis, Hutus, and the Twa, the Belgians gave the Tutsis more power and believed they were superior. Right before Rwanda gained independence, the Belgians began giving the Hutus more and more power. When Rwanda gained independence in 1962, it left these made up ethnic groups in tension. After Rwanda gained independence, the ‘Hutu Power’ drove out the majorities of…

important to examine the aftermath of past genocides. The Rwandan Genocide took place in 1994 after a plane was shot down, carrying the Rwandan President Cyprien Ntaryamira. Violence erupted with Hutu political and military extremists claiming the lives of over half a million Tutsis. Three quarters of Rwanda’s Tutsi population was killed in just three months. The genocide ended when a Tutsi rebel group, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), overthrew the Rwandan army and government. (United Human…

Although there are many reasons for any civil war to occur, the Rwandan Civil War follows in the footsteps of the many civil wars before it. The reasons behind the Rwandan Civil War are traced back to the rationalist explanation of war that states that war occurs due to indivisible issues which are impossible to reach agreement on. In 1990, an ethnic civil war ignited between the Hutus and Tutsis due to uncompromisable issues and long-standing resentment surrounding class division, bigotry,…

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…

Coverdale (New York, NY. Picador, 2000). Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, by Jean Hatzfeld, is the second book that he composed about reports of the events of the Rwandan genocide that occurred in spring of 1994 in a small African country called Rwanda. The first book, Into the Quick Life: Stories from the Rwandan Marshes, Hatzfeld tells of the events that took place during the genocide but from the perspective of the Tutsi survivors. Machete Season, on the other hand, tells of the…