The Catholic Church in Rwanda has admitted and apologized for its role in the 1994 genocide and expressed regret for violating God’s commands. In a statement released by the conference of Catholic bishops and read out in parishes across Rwanda on Sunday‚ the church acknowledged its hand in planning‚ aiding‚ and executing the 1994 genocide. The massacres by Hutu extremists left more than 800‚000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead‚ The Associated Press details. “We apologize for all the wrongs the
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A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group. And in this case the Hutus’ target were the Tutsis. They were of the same language. They practiced the same cultural traditions. They were of the same race. The only difference was power. And that’s what drove the genocide. When the Europeans helped colonize Rwanda‚ they gave the more powerful positions‚ like jobs in the government‚ to the Tutsis. One of the few high ranking spots that
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How has the environment of Zaire been affected by the refugees of the Rwandan genocide? The mass movement of about 2 million Rwandan refugees to Zaire occurred in 1994. The refugees moved not only to Zaire‚ but they also moved to Burundi‚ Tanzania and Uganda. Kivu‚ where the majority of the Rwandan refugees were located‚ was already the most overpopulated region in Zaire. After the refugees moved in‚ the population was estimated at 8 million‚ nearly 2 million more than the earlier population. Moreover
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1994‚ there were roughly 1 million Rwandans murdered in the span of 100 days. This was a genocide brought on by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana. The president was a “hutu‚” and it was the hutu’s that caused most of the violence within this genocide. That left the Tutsi rebel group‚ being the most Rwandans murdered. The death of the president was not the only cause of this heinous genocide; there were many other underlying reasons as to why 1 million people lost their lives in
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Imagine driving down a road in the hilly countryside of Rwanda. On one side of the road there are banana trees‚ and on the other side lush green grass that fills the hills along the side of the road. This road leads to a tiny town where kids run up to a car and say‚ “muzungo” which means foreigner in Kinyarwanda. Now imagine just twenty-two years earlier‚ this same road is filled with bodies lying on the side of the road while straight ahead walking down this road with machetes and rifles are members
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of this paper are to access the causes of the war in Rwanda that started in 1990 and ended in 1994 and to access the causes of the genocide‚ an important part of this war. I shall access the extent to which ethnic identity and cultural identity are causes of the war and genocide. Firstly I shall present a brief summary of when the war broke out and what happened over the following 4 years. I shall and then take a look at how the history of Rwanda and especially the colonial rule and revolution created
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in the Rwandan Genocide. What happened to the promise to never let another genocide occur again Racism‚ competition of land between Hutu and Tutsi‚ and denying the situation in Rwanda as genocide‚ the killings occurred and continued for 100 long days. However‚ that all happened because of European colonization in Africa. Doc 1‚ by Gerard Prunier‚ states how the Belgians divided Rwanda people based on physical features. Doc 2‚ by Jared Diamond‚ shows the population density of Rwanda compared to the
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away to modify the way we live today so we do not repeat the foolishness . Genocide is one of those crimes that should be prevented . Genocide affected our world in so many different ways the hundreds of thousands of lives taken in Rwandan left a huge mark on the world and moved us a little bit closer to making sure it never happens again . Genocide not only affected the world but our economy as well. Rwandan Genocide wiped out a third of the country’s work force . There was a very high number
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April 7th the Rwandan genocide began. For 100 days‚ Hutus killed innocent Tutsis and any Hutus that sympathized Tutsis. Roads were blocked‚ houses were broken into‚ nowhere was safe and they couldn’t escape. The RTML‚ a hate radio‚ broadcasted propaganda against the Tutsis and gave instructions such as “cut down the tall trees” and “crush the cockroaches” to the Hutus. During this genocide‚ the world just watched. If countries would have done something earlier‚ this genocide could have been stopped
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Rwandan genocide. In the past Rwanda had been a Belgian state. The Belgians had favored the Tutsi minority due to their European appearance. At initially‚ bolstered by the Belgians‚ the Tutsis had controlled Rwanda. Be that as it may‚ somewhere around 1959 and 1962 the Hutu’s revolted and beat the Tutsi government. The minority Tutsis had then been dealt with term oil therefore. In 1990 a revolt bunch made principally out of Tutsis situated in neighboring Uganda attacked northern Rwanda. The common
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