Crispin Sartwell is a believer in humans being‚ at the core‚ extremely evil. He believes that people just need the right motivation to commit evil acts as he explains in the writing “The Genocidal Killer in the Mirror.” Theodore Dalrymple is a British physician who believes in personal ideas‚ but he thinks following authority is better for everyone’s welfare even when one does not agree with the authority. He explains his reasoning for this thinking in his writing “Just Do What the Pilot Tells You
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by presenting it as a case study of genocide and by seeing it as a historical process in which a domestic conflict escalated and was consumed by a global war. It also establishes a link between genocide and nationality conflicts in the Balkan Peninsula and the Turko-American areas. The author examines the genocide through official WWI documents from Turkey‚ Imperial Germany‚ and Imperial Austria. The main premise of his study is that the "Armenian genocide was but an attempt by Ottoman-Turkish
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Introduction Just 18 years ago (1994) in the small east-African country of Rwanda‚ in the space of 100 days 800‚000 people were slaughtered by their own government and fellow citizens. Virtually the entire world turned away and did little to prevent the genocide. Hundreds of thousands of men‚ woman and children were murdered. This disturbing‚ recent event is perhaps the darkest and most brutal tragedy of our time. Background For centuries Rwanda’s 10 million citizens viewed themselves as one people. In
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peace accords after they were signed by the Hutus and the Tutsis. That mission was derailed when the Hutu president’s plane was shot down by Tutsi rebels. The president’s assassination was the precipitating event of what would become known as the genocide in Rwanda. "When people ask me‚ good listeners‚ why do I hate all the Tutsi‚ I say: read our history. The Tutsi were collaborators
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better lives. They had typically been richer with more fulfilling lives. To outsiders who didn’t know the history‚ the killings appeared as racism. Even though the genocide was not only a race issue‚ it appears that there was racism between the Hutus and Tutsis because of the way Gourevitch’s interviewees describe events during the genocide. The Tutsis were made to carry around race identifier cards much like the Jews were made to carry during the Holocaust. Gourevitch points out that in Rwanda‚ people
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was still extremely concerned because his wife‚ Tatiana‚ was Tutsi‚ which also made his children mixed. This made his wife and children a target along with the other Tutsi people. I found Paul Rusesabagina’s character inspiring because despite the genocide that was taking place all around his hotel‚ he still decided to take action. Paul Rusesabagina had a remarkable amount of courage
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1. The Belgian colonialism lead the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda because The Belgians put the Tutsis in power. The Tutsis were well dressed and the minority of the population of Rwanda and also had all the power. The Hutus were treated with little respect and were limited with jobs that would bring them great wealth. The main character Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager but was also a Tutsis who housed Tutsis refugee and helped people try to survive the riots that the Hutus
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Utilizing my background knowledge on the escalation of the Rwandan conflict into genocide‚ I was appalled by the UN’s inaction even after receiving Dallaire’s fax. Dallaire’s fax outlines some very important and specific details regarding the situation in Rwanda that explicitly showed that genocide was approaching‚ including: * Since UNAMIR mandate [the informant] has been ordered to register all Tutsi in Kigali. He suspects it is for their extermination. Example he gave is that in twenty minutes
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Hero or Opportunist In the film Hotel Rwanda‚ we see the portrayal of events at the Hotel Des Mille Collines as they were described in Paul Rusesabagina’s book titled “An Ordinary Man‚” which talks about his experiences in Rwanda during the genocide committed by the Hutu people in 1994. The Hutu people went on a killing spree‚ massacring over 800‚000 Tutsi natives in the span of two months. In the film‚ Rusesabagina is made out to be a hero of the people who saves over 1200 Hutu and Tutsi
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semester. The movie is about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The movie shows how Hutu extremists mass murdered the Tutsi population and how one Hutu named Paul Rusesabagina‚ a hotel manager‚ helped save the lives of his friends and family and over one thousand refugees. The movie itself was very well done. It was shocking and inspirational. I was shocked by the hatred and horrible acts that were committed agaisnt the Tutsi population. Genocide is something that seems surreal to me
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