Rwandan Patriotic Front

The perception of being a beggar nation is a central tenant to the level of which the Rwandan government views the positives and negatives of foreign aim. For most donors, the distribution of foreign aid is often based on good will nature desires to see growth and development in developing nations. Specifically, its focus is for the promotion of economic, social and governance development. The good intentions of foreign aid are sometimes misperceived, because of either different actors having…

The Rwandan crisis clearly outlined the UN’s ability to act during a crisis and stop it. General Dallaire describes the experience: “[We] watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect.” The…

The death of the hundreds of thousands of Rwandan civilians is as much of the international community’s fault as the leaders of the genocide. There is evidence indicating that the UN was forewarned of the mounting genocide in Rwanda. According to declassified French documents, France had been informed of the mounting genocide from at least January 1993, more than a year before the Rwandan Genocide. Despite knowing this, French president François Mitterrand supported the Hutu leaders, who was…

This course has opened my eyes to various cultures and history I was unaware of before studying this course. I never had really put thought into how being so closed minded could be so detrimental to my growing process as a student, and as a human being. In high school I was enrolled in human geography. This class made it very apparent to me how I was so unaware of many places in the World. It brought attention to the fact that I was so closed minded and unaware of the things happening in the…

“Left to tell,” by Immaculée Ilibagiza, is a nonfiction story in which Immaculée recounts her appalling experience during the Rwandan Holocaust. During the Rwandan Holocaust, Tutsis were being exterminated by the Hutus. Tutsis and Hutus were two groups that lived in Rwanda. Many family members and friends of Immaculée were killed in the Holocaust. She was faced with hardships that she was only able to overcome due to the presence of God in her life. There were times that Immaculée thought evilly…

Over 800,000 dead bodies of slaughtered Rwandan men, women and children were found sprawled out across lawns and streets of neighborhoods for 100 days (Smith, et al. 113-114). The Hutu president of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana was killed in a plane that got shot down. His assassination sparked the beginning of a genocide between the Hutu and Tutsi groups. Paul Rusesabagina is a mix of both, his father is Hutu and his mother is Tutsi. Since his father is Hutu and bloodlines are passed from father…

When evil is allowed to go unnoticed it builds up creating a greater nationalistic desire within an individual, often causing immense tragedy within a nation-state. This is only possible because men who have any moral values turn a blind eye. Bertold Brecht expresses this through one of his quotes. The quote supports civic nationalism because it is criticizing organizations and the government because they should step up and take action in times of crisis to prevent evil from coming into play.…

cultural efforts to help the country recover, the Rwandan government did not do enough to help said process; there are still societal divides and forced isolations left in the wake of the genocide. The International Court Tribunal of Rwanda (ICTR) was inefficient and wasted both time and money in trying perpetrators of the genocide; its incompetence prolonged the freedom the criminals enjoyed…

that everyone knows about is the Holocaust. In the Holocaust millions of people died in 6 years because there was hatred towards the Jews. Another genocide that took place and managed to kill one million people in one hundred days was the Rwandan Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide took place in 1994. It was a was a war between two very similar ethnic groups, the Hutu and Tutsi people. The Hutu had hatred towards the Tutsi for many reasons and when they had the opportunity to come into power they…

abuses. With the Holocaust being known as genocide that led to the crimes against humanity, many did as well; such as the Holodomor and the Rwandan genocide. Multiple genocides have led to the pursuit of ultranationalism through propaganda, national interest, and policies that have abused human rights; which led to crimes against humanity in situations of the Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust and the Holodomor. In conclusion, the ultranationalism acts should only be taken to a moderate extent,…