Rwandan Patriotic Front

After Rwanda had independence the government had a struggle on the people in Rwanda. The Tutsis who felt like trouble was coming fled to Uganda or other neighboring countries to hide. There they formed the RPF or the Rwandan Patriotic Front. This was a small militia of Tutsis who wanted to go home and take control of Rwanda. Even with the hostility of the Hutus and the Tutsis had, the president Habyarimana began bringing peace but not harmony. In 1990, the RPF decided to fight…

After the revolution of 1959, the Tutsis became, over all, the wealthier ethnic group in comparison to the Hutu ethnic group. However, Newbury describes "in 1994, all Tutsi were labeled as agents of an "evil" Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)."(Newbury). Even though the Hutus were blamed for the genocide of 1994, not all Hutus were part of the genocide of course. For example, the movie "Hotel Rwanda," directed by Terry George, the main character, Paul Rusesabagina, was played…

The United Nations is an important intergovernmental organization that was established after World War II to prevent any such conflict of occurring again. Over time, the U.N has grown not only in size but in importance to global events. Currently there are 193 member states, all who finance and contribute to it whether it be money or armed forces. The objectives of the U.N include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development,…

the use of mass killing. While it is indisputable that some ethnic animosity existed between the Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda, the severity of the genocide was likely escalated due to the hardship faced by civilians and the growing threat the Rwandan Patriotic Front posed to the power held by the Hutu. While the economic situation of a state may be of significance in the decision of the international community to intervene, economic hardship has often been limited to being only a contributing factor…

hold great power yet these nations assume that genocide is a concept of the past-with the tragedies of each new genocide isolated from those of the previous genocide. Two genocides commonly cited by humanitarian interventionists – the Armenian and Rwandan genocides demonstrate the consequences of lack of involvement and a lack of moral will on the part of the United States government. Yet by failing to recognize the challenges that come with foreign intervention, humanitarian interventionists…

The word “sympathy” is often used to mean one person’s response to the suffering of another individual. By giving our sympathy, it means we send our compassion and pity to the individual. However, we usually have certain considerations before we give our sympathy. Stassen’s Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda has made people argue whether to throw out their sympathy or not. Deogratias, a teenager who gets trapped in the middle of the genocide tragedy that happened in Rwanda, gets criticisms as the…

phenomena; yet, this is not the case. Gregory Stanton (2013) estimated that since the foundation of genocide watch started there has been around 70 million deaths across 45 genocides (Stokes and Gabriel, 2010). One of the most well-known being the Rwandan genocide. The nature of the Hutu and Tutsi’s historical pastoral or agricultural roles, suggest that the Tutsis were more commonly found to be landowners. Whereas, Hutus worked on the land, normally crop growers. From this division of Labour…

1994, Rwanda had become one of the most densely populated and poverty stricken countries in the world and encouraged more ethnic conflicts between the Tutsi and the Hutus. In 1993, the Arusha Accords Peace Treaty was signed between the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), which mainly consisted of Tutsi, and the government of Rwanda, but tensions rose once again when the Melchior Ndadaye, the first Hutu president, was assassinated and the murders of one hundred thousand Hutus occurred. On the 7th of…

didn’t learn from it, then it will be hard to stop other Genocides from happening again in the future. For example, there have been lots of genocides throughout history, such as in Africa the Rwandan genocide where 500,000 people were killed in the civil war between the government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Also, the Armenian genocide lead by Ottoman authorities killed a total number of people estimated to be between 800,000 and 1.5 million. Finally, nowadays in Syria, Syrians are being…

Given that their presence on a desired territory is typically troublesome, indigenous people are usually the targets of genocide because their presence decreases the economic or strategic value of a given territory. We see this occur during the Rwandan Genocide as members of the Hutu clan who inhabited the eastern portion of Africa murder nearly 800,000 people, primarily of the Tutsi clan, who was the minority between the two. The perpetrators conceptualized the Tutsi’s, as they were perceived…