The Rwanda Genocide delegated a shift in the way society viewed rape during times of war. Women who fell victim to sexual assault have lived with the physical and psychological traumas of these experiences for centuries. In this paper I will argue against rape being used as a weapon of war‚ the long term effects it has had on women and the process it took for rape to be recognized as a criminal act during the Rwandan genocide. Here is a brief history of how the Rwandan Genocide began. The genocide
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The Rwanda Genocide Genocide‚ the mass murder of a specific group of people. Rwanda‚ a small country about the size of Maryland‚ USA‚ located near the equator‚ it shares borders with Tanzania‚ Burundi‚ Uganda‚ and the Democratic Republic Of The Congo. In April to July of 1994‚ Rwanda went through genocide. The manslaughter of five hundred thousand to estimated about one million Tutsi had persevered for only one hundred days. The capital of Rwanda is Kigali‚ Rwanda‚ currency is the rwandan franc‚
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Rwanda Genocide is defined as: the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial‚ political‚ or cultural group (merriam-webster.com). Genocides usually occur because one group of people feel intimidated by another. “In 1994‚ Rwanda’s population of seven million was composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu (approximately 85%)‚ Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%)” (www.unitedhumanrights.org). The Hutu population felt intimidated‚ and resented the Tutsi population. The Tutsi had previously ruled
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Prior to Rwanda gaining independence from Belgium in 1962‚ the country experienced a constant battle of right between the Hutu and the Tutsi religious groups. The Tutsi‚ although being the minority making up only 15-percent of the population‚ enjoyed privileged lives. However‚ following the country’s independence‚ the country experienced three decades of Hutu rule‚ under which the Tutsi faced extreme discrimination and bursts of extermination. This continual struggle between groups‚ and the assassination
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The Rwandan Genocide was one of the world’s worst genocide ever that left several people without families‚ and brought a divide in the country between two ethnic groups‚ the Tutsi and the Hutu‚ and people are still dealing with the effects to this day. The main parties that acted in the Rwandan Genocide were the Hutu‚ the Tutsi‚ the United Nations‚ the United States‚ Belgium‚ France‚ and some neighboring countries of Rwanda were also involved. According to “Rwandan Genocide‚” the cause of the genocide
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Brown 1 Ms. Dewees Senior Seminar 5-22-09 The Rwandan Genocide The Rwandan Genocide was massive killings in 1994. Rwanda was characterized by ethnic divides between the Hutu and Tutsi population. The Tutsis were being targeted no matter what age or gender. Innocent civilians were all unarmed and weren’t given a chance. It established ethnic conflict that would eventually leave Rwanda in great potential for future violence. The genocide escalated from a peaceful background over hundreds of years
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out of control. It’s amazing how ignorant and stubborn the human race can be. This is exactly the response of many nations when it comes to genocide. Genocide is the systematic killing of all the people from a national‚ ethnic‚ or religious group. Two of the most recent genocides in history are the genocide of Rwanda and the genocide of Cambodia. The genocide of Cambodia started on the year of 1975 and ended on 1979. This is considered the Khmer Pogue period‚ where Pol Pot ‚ Nuon Chea‚ Ieng Sary
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Before that genocide in 1994‚ there were many events that built up and led to the dramatic killings. Far before any of this started‚ hunter and gathers populated the area of Rwanda during the stone and iron ages with the Bantu eventually following. In the mid-eighteenth century the country became known as the Kingdom of Rwanda and was ruled by a Tutsi King. The king enacted anti-Hutu polices and this is where the animosity between the Hutu and the Tutsis started. Rwanda became colonized by Germany
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In the 15th century‚ The Tutsis migrated from the horn of africa‚ Ethiopia‚ to Rwanda; home to the Hutu. The invasion was peaceful‚ despite the warrior skills of the Tutsi. Believing in a hierarchical society‚ they set up a monarchy which lasted up until German colonists arrived at Rwanda during WWI. As the war was ending‚ the colonial rule had switched from the Germans to the Belgians. These Belgian colonists saw the taller‚ stronger Tutsi warriors as superior to the Hutus‚ and offered them education
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were the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide? The causes of the Rwandan genocide were deeply seeded to the collapse and struggle for dominance within a previously established hierarchy. The roots of ethnic conflicts often find themselves tied to arbitrary guidelines of division between groups. It is this segregation that leads to a fight for power when a hierarchy becomes destabilized. This is exactly the case with the Rwandan genocide of 1994: the intervention of Belgian colonialism
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