Rwandan Patriotic Front

Genocide is a deliberate killing of a certain race of people by another group who deems themselves the ruling race. The Tutsis were the superiors of the two groups and the Hutu though that they should be because they had more in numbers. The Hutus thought they were supposed to be the rulers of Rwanda so they had begun the eight stages of a genocide. After the genocide had ended, the Hutus had continues a smaller amount of killing to cover up the fact that a genocide had occurred. Based on…

Christians are targeted in some parts of the world. Christians in Nigeria suffered an attack on Christmas day, harming several with some even ending in death. The attack was on a church, and it was done by Islamist insurgents (USCCB Freedom 1). A Christian village in Egypt was devastated when their houses and shops were burned down, and the perpetrators tried to turn their church into a mosque or hospital after breaking into it. Christians are the targets for violence in Iraq as the U.S. pulls…

U.S soldiers in jeopardy. In truth, there wasn’t a way of knowing that either of those were true, but they didn’t need to be true in order to serve a purpose. This justification has both similarities and differences with another case study, the Rwandan genocide, where the colonial history wasn’t emphasized. Instead, the West paid attention to the modern history of the Hutu massacre to separate the West, or formerly colonizing nations, from responsibility over the current situation and also…

feeling like he failed the Rwandan people. There are many reasons Dallaire, the UN and Western countries in general failed to prevent genocidal killings in Rwanda. Perhaps Dallaire was not the right leader to send into Rwanda and the UN should have looked for an African to lead the mission and perhaps someone with more political and peacekeeping experience. A fact Dallaire admits himself early in his book. Trained as an artillery officer, Dallaire was unfamiliar with Rwandan politics and…

dependent on their exports to the Western powers, such as the United States, however, the West was not dependent on Rwanda, due to the fact that other countries exported the same products, such as Columbia, Brazil, and other African countries. Native Rwandans had been segregated into three racial classifications by the Germans and Belgians: Tutsi, Hutu, and Twa. The high ranking officials had been part of the Tutsis and the Tutsis occupied the better parts of society. However, the Hutus did not…

casually. As the killings continued the Hutu rebels had in mind to finish the job and terminate the Tutsis. Adalbert recalls feeling less patriotic and refused to listen to the radio broadcast from the authorities, some of the rebels became tired of murdering the Tutsis and the others would torture the Tutsis to amuse themselves. Hatzfeld describes how the Rwandan genocide was a result of plans and preparations devised importantly by collective decisions. Hatzfeld compares the decision to commit…

To remember the lives of the Rwandan people who lost their lives during the months of April to July 1994, the proposal of a non profit organization for Rwandan survivors was created. The goal of the non profit organization is to bring peace and tranquility to survivors even after 20 years of the genocide. The audience which were American citizens were sought to help these survivors attain harmony by donating and gaining awareness of the genocide. To effectively portray the organization as a way…

emotional when reading from the point of view of just one character and his emotions. I was also able to learn about the Rwandan genocide, which I didn’t hear at all about until I was able to research it. I found out so much about it and learned about what it was like to live through it from the eyes of a survivor, Immaculee. This investigation and reading, on both the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide, were very enlightening. It helped me see that despite the location and time period a genocide…

hierarchy of the society. Even at school, the teacher was very biased, teaching the differences between Hutu and Tutsi. The teacher pompously described the Hutus as “proud and honest farmers…..who cleared the country for cultivation……they are the true Rwandans”. As for Tutsis, he unashamedly designated them as the people “who took advantage of the natural integrity of the poor Hutu peasants, and treacherously enslaved them” (18). This knowledge depicted that the whole land of Rwanda belong to…

Rwanda was a country divided between 1990 through 1995, for genocide was prepared and committed here in this small African country. It all started when in 1990, Belgium gave up control of the now diamond-less country, the only reason Belgium kept hold of this otherwise useless country. People were classified into 3 groups, 85% Hutu, 14% Tutsi, and then 1% Twa (http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm). Hutus were the lowest class and watched as the Tutsis got all the…