Rwanda Genocide Case Study

Within this paper, the case study chosen is the Rwanda genocide that occurred in 1994, which had ended thousands of lives. This type of crime can be argued that it consists of all three main state crimes being Law violation, Deviance and Social injury. This is due to the fact that this state crime that was committed in 1994, consisted of an ‘ethnic cleansing’ of the Rwandan Tutsis. This violence had occurred between April to June in 1994. This Genocide had been spread all over Rwanda due hate speeches being spread across the country through the radio. One radio station in particular, named Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC), used street language and hate speeches towards the Tutsi people. This radio station (RTLM) was established and mostly financed by Hutu extremists, who were mostly from northern Rwanda.
The radio's supporters also included the CEO's of two African banks and the vice-president of the interahamwe. Interahamwe being an extremist Hutu paramilitary organisation. The main slogan being, "those who stand/work/fight/attack together". This extremist group had supported the Hutu led government, which had eventually lead up to the Rwandan Genocide, (Hate radio prepared the Rwandan people for genocide by demonising the Tutsi, nd). Also within this paper, the case study will provide various evidence to present how the Genocide occurred and what other States could have done to save lives and how International Governmental bodies ignored what was occurring in Rwanda, (using the US as an example of this). Also within this essay, it will portray who is to blame for the Rwandan Genocide and why it was allowed to continue for so long, thus causing thousands to lose their