Rwandan Patriotic Front

Belgian colonial rule after World War I, Christian missionaries became active in the country. This led to a predominance of Roman Catholics, who, shortly before the genocide accounted for some two-thirds of the population. The background to the Rwandan genocide is inseparable from the destructive legacy of first German, then Belgian and finally the French on the country’s inter-ethnic politics. Rwanda gained its independence from Belgium in 1961 after years of living in a society that…

had been living together for decades, sharing the same language, culture, and religion became enemies. The violence was genocide-- a deliberate, systematic annihilation of Rwanda’s racially-defined Tutsi group (Straus 1). In the words of current Rwandan President Kagame, the genocide was “an explosion resulting from a process that lasted years” (Nyirubugara 33). Three key factors incited the genocide: the history and origins of tribal Rwanda, the influence of imperialist…

The Rwandan genocide in 1994, primarily involved mass atrocity crimes and communal violence between two ethnic groups (the Hutu people and the Tutsi people), and was aimed at eliminating the Tutsi people, or anyone opposing. Despite many warnings, the responsiveness of the international community and the UN was ineffective in intervening in this preventable genocide. Historical background Since gaining independence in 1962, Rwanda experienced several violent incidents involving ethnic…

The evening of April 6 1994, marked the tragic assassination of the President of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana. Which was to become the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide. The international community must bear the majority of the blame for the genocide as they became bystanders to the systematic killings of over 800,000 innocent Tutsis, largely women and children. The question then must be asked: how can such a calamity, with more than 7 Tutsi men, women and children killed every minute, last a…

But, the reaction of the international community to the Rwandan Genocide…

to this day. Sure, the Rwandans who organised and executed the actual genocide must be fully responsible, but the word genocide implicates everyone. Governments and powerful people failed to prevent and halt the killing campaign. Everyone shared the shame of the crime. Belgium withdrawing their troops and leaving the peacekeeping force; the US putting saving money a higher importance than saving lives and slowing the sending of the relief force; and France supporting a Rwandan government who…

After Rwanda’s independence from Belgium, many events have jeopardized the Hutu’s right to rule from the late 1980s economic crisis, the invasion of the Rwandan patriotic front (FPR), a Tutsi rebel group, and the civil war of the early 1990s. The Hutu elite also had to protect their power would not be taken away by the FPR. In guaranteeing stability, the Hutu president Juvenal Habyarimana along with a group of powerful…

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 the Hutus and the Tutsi.…

The Rwandan genocide was a terribly brutal event in human history. The genocidal violence which occurred was against the Tutsi minority and nearly a million were slaughtered. There were multiple individuals responsible for these killings, most notably the perpetrators themselves. However, there is another group that can be held greatly accountable for its start and continuation: The United Nations. These countries were all responsible for the Rwandan genocide as they were aware that a genocide…

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…