Hutus Journey Essay

In the years before and the first months of the year 1994, the Hutus and Tutsis stood as enemies but lived in peace in their own share of Rwanda, but little did the Tutsis know about what the Hutus were planning in the short years before. Malika, an eighteen year old Tutsi girl, walked around in her house on the quiet, sunny morning of April 6th, 1994, helping her parents get the house ready for a visit from her aunt and uncle. That night, after welcoming them and chatting away, as Malika was getting ready for dinner, she heard her dad whisper to her mother, aunt, uncle, and her to quietly walk outside. There, as she stood peeking through the fence, she saw the dreaded sight of a Hutu group dragging her neighbors’ father from his home.
Before she could react, her father pulled everyone back inside,
Malika is an example of one of the Tutsi survivors, and Kristalf is an example of the few Hutus who wanted to live in peace with the Tutsis, not kill them. Hotel Rwanda was the actual hotel where the Tutsis were hidden toward the end of the war. All of the events listed were actual events, except for the personal events between Malika and her family (those were just an example). Malika losing her uncle, aunt, and both of her parents, with no friends with her, is an example of the many people who lost their families and friends during the genocide. The weapons most Hutus used, which were machetes, were illegally imported because they were not allowed to have weapons, and the few guns they had were lucky findings or were stolen from higher officials. The genocide lasted about 100 days, and there were 500,000 killed and about 1 million injured—about 20% of the population was lost. In the genocide, the Hutus were stopped by the UN while they were attacking the people in the hotel and on the