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The blood of thousands of murdered Tutsi people ran through the streets of Rwanda on April 7, 1994. Until mid-July of 1994, Hutu supremacists eradicated thousands of Tutsi. Nearly fifty years prior, Nazis claimed the lives of millions of Jews. Within the years that followed, the Nazi forces slaughtered millions of Jewish citizens across Europe. Both massacred by people they once considered friends and coworkers, Tutsi and Jews faced great injustice, but those are not the only similarities between the two genocides. It is evident that during both the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide, the rest of society turned a blind eye to the horrors that both Tutsi and Jews were facing, only kept their best interest in mind, and that both groups faced

Hotel Rwanda tackles a recent event in history where the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide, massacring approximately

William Hogan Research Paper Plan Title: Parallels between Holocaust and Rwandan Genocides Background Argument Counter Argument Rebuttal Conclusion Thesis: Genocide is important to understand so we can help prevent future violence on humanity. Political, cultural, economic, and ethnicity differences led to terrible modern day genocides in Rwanda and during the Holocaust. Parallels between the Holocaust and Rwandan genocides can be drawn from the role the state played in mobilizing, organizing, and allowing genocide to take place. 1st: 3-4 pages: synthesize and analyze research and give examples of genocide general, understanding, health, and Holocaust/Rwanda comparisons/differences.

Rwanda genocide victims tried to take refuge in places that they thought were places that they could go for safety. Places like schools, hospitals and churches. Hutu followed them, where they were then just as brutally murdered as any other Tutsi member. Nobody was safe. Hutu who didn’t believe in the genocide were also brutally murdered, the idea was to have a race of just Hutu (Rosenberg, 2014). One of the most gruesome events that happened

How many people need to be killed before a crisis becomes a genocide? How many sections of article 2 Of the UN convention needs to occur to be considered a genocide? Is the sterilization of hundreds of Puerto rico women taking imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group considered Genocide? Is police targeting and killing certain grips of people more often a form of genocide? What are the key differences between civil wars and genocides? When should other countries step in to prevent such atrocities? SURF Survivors funds states that, “Over the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, an estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some moderate Hutus were slaughtered in the Rwandan genocide. A recent report has estimated the number to be close to 2 million”. In the book We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with out families stories from Rwanda, The author Phillip Gourevitch writes “The French Foreign Minister-had taken to describing the slaughter in Rwanda as “Genocide”. But the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights still favored the phrase”possible genocide (Gourevitch,152)”. It is without a doubt the civil war in Rwanda was a genocide. It qualifies as such because it fits all the criteria under article 2 of the UN genocide convention.

“The sweetly sickening odor of decomposing bodies hung over many parts of Rwanda in July 1994: . . . at Nyarubuye in eastern Rwanda, where the cadaver of a little girl, otherwise intact, had been flattened by passing vehicles to the thinness of cardboard in front of the church steps,” (Deforges 6). The normalcy of horrible images like this one had cast a depressing gloom over Rwanda during the genocide, a time when an extreme divide caused mass killings of Tutsi by the Hutu. Many tactics such as physical assault or hate propaganda are well known and often used during times of war. Sexual assault and rape, however, during times of war is an unspoken secret – it is well known that rape occurs within combat zones and occupied territories, but

J.P. Stassen’s Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda gives us an emotionally harrowing tale of the pre- and post-Rwandan genocide from the perspective of a Hutu named Deogratias. In the pre-genocide era, Deogratias is depicted as a normal young man who is still trying to figure out his way in the world. He goes to school, works, drink alcohol, and flirts with the opposite sex. In the post genocide era, Deogratias is depicted with a torn, murky white shirt and red, haunted eyes. He is shown to be constantly suffering from the guilt and memories of his actions in the genocide.

In a certain way comparing to the Nazi genocide of World War II, the well-organized and well trained leaders were able to create a mass appeal of fear and hatred that had the result of controlling the common people. It also controlled members of the educated elite like doctors, priests, teachers, human rights activists to commit horrible deeds against friends, colleagues, and neighbors, as well as strangers. Towards the end of the genocide, Tutsis fled to places that were thought to be safe like hospitals, churches, and schools—but such shelter only made it easier for the Hutus to find and kill them. In fact, ordinary Hutu citizens represented the strongest Hutu killing force in the country. Pressured by the Interahamwe and RTLM, and supported by the country’s history of unpunished violence against Tutsis,

On April 6 1994, prior to the death of president Juvenal Habyarimana, the nation of Rwanda become released into turmoil as genocides claimed the lives of at the least ½ a one million of its citizens (Seltzer in Des Forges, 1999,). Instigated by using the Hutu political elite and its military guide, their top objectives were the Tutsi, as well as Hutu moderates. Many have purported “ethnic hatred” as the motive of the Rwanda Genocide and at the same time as an ethnic divide became indeed found in Rwanda across the time of the warfare, the reasons for the genocide are more than one and was greater complex.

This investigation will seek to answer the question “How Did the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 Effect the Hutu and Tutsi?” I chose this question because last year I read the book Left to Tell and I wanted to know more about the two different types of groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis. This was and still is an important topic because many died that day just for belonging to a specific group. This topic shows how much our world has changed since 1994. In order to answer my historical investigation question, I have structured my analysis section using the following method. First, I will answer how the two groups are different? And how these differences began the Rwandan Genocide? Next, I will talk about a survivor and her experience, then, the survival rate of Hutus and Tutsis. There are two main sources this paper will cover, first, a website called the United Human Rights Council, then, a book called Left to Tell.

In this book report the discussion will be talking about how United States responded to the Rwandan holocaust, happened in 1994, killing thousands of people in African country of Rwanda. Rwanda was divided into two groups of people based on the acquisition of cattle. Tutsi were the native people who owned and raised the cattle, the other group was called as Hutu. Hutus had no cattle acquisition but they could change the community later on. The mass slaughtering went unnoticed and the leaders of that time paid least attention to the issue. Tutsi formed the group of minorities and Hutus were held responsible for the mass slaughtering in the country. A writer who survived the genocide herself and witnessed the mass slaughter wrote this book in 2006.

In Rwanda’s history, racial tensions have been present for hundreds of years between Hutus and Tutsis. Unfortunately, on April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the President of Rwanda, a Hutu, was targeted and shot down. This occurrence sparked a mass genocide between Hutus and Tutsis that would kill 800,000 lives in a period of 100 days. Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager at the time, witnessed the genocide and all of its’ devastation. Paul used all of his memories and decided to write a memoir to inform and express his disgust, disappointment, and trauma towards the event.

The genocide in Rwanda is representative of one of the most horrendous and unnecessary losses to life in recent world history. Rwanda’s crisis is a historical product, not a biological fatality or a ‘spontaneous’ bestial outburst. Both the Tutsi and the Hutu, were not predestined for all eternity to disembowel one another because the taller and thinner of the two came from Egypt, while the shorter stockier ones were born in the shores of Lake Kivu. This genocide has a history filled with complex roots, many contradictions, and brutal twists of fates, sudden accelerations, and periods of spiritual collapse. Hence, the aim of this paper is to examine, the Rwandan genocide’s impact on the lived experiences of the children and youths present

Ghosts of Rwanda, in vivid detail, describes the 100-day ordeal of state-sponsored genocide, in which nearly one million were murdered in cold blood. The primary theme of this film examines the lack of international intervention and the balance over humanitarianism and international political and economic interests. The producers of the documentary use previously unseen footage and personal interviews to establish a narrative about the film and to create an interpretation of what exactly occurred. The film tells of the involvement of Hutu extremists in massacring Tutsis and moderate Hutus for a period of one hundred days – using methods of cruelty that are beyond description. Through the instigation of ethnic tensions by the political elite, and the fear spread by this intra-ethnic intimidation, the genocide resulted in one of the largest massacres in global

In order to prevent genocide, anthropologists suggest that we must first understand it. We must study and compare genocides and develop a working theory about the genocidal process. Anthologists explain that understanding the way genocide occurs and learning to identify early signs that could lead to genocide are important ways to prevent it. I believe that the tragedy of genocide that occurred in Rwanda could have been prevented if Western powers had made the right decisions at the right time. Western powers fail to notice an enormous opportunity to save thousands of Rwandan lives. Therefore, many researches focus on why the early cautions of a developing genocide were not interpreted into early preventative act. I believe that genocide is