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
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there were arguments about who would finance the operation. Finally the genocide came to a halt with the help of an exiled group of Tutsi rebels known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The RPF returned to Rwanda and ended the killings and took down the Hutu government. The genocide was over and 800‚000 Tutsis had lost their lives in 100 days. This genocide proved to be one of the most horrific in recent history
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• Romeo was born on June 25‚ 1946 • Born in Denekamp‚ Netherlands • His father Romeo Louis Dallaire was a staff sergeant and also a non-commissioned officer in the Canadian Army • His mother Catherine Vermaessen was a Dutch nurse • Romeo later immigrated to Montreal when he was six months old with his Dallaire enrolled in the Canadian Army in 1963 as a cadet • He attended Le College militaire royal de Saint-jean • In 1970 Dallaire graduated from the Royal Military college of Canada • He graduated
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Rwanda was corrupt‚ Habyarimana forcibly took control of the government in 1973‚ established himself as a dictator and the country fell under authoritarian rule. With the ever increasing unrest due to inhumane living conditions and the introduction of a Hutu president the country quickly began to turn on the once favored Tutsis aided in part
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the division between Hutu and Tutsi was sometimes blurred. Some Hutu bought cattle and were accepted into the upper classes‚ while some Tutsis became poor peasants. Rwanda was first colonized and governed by Germany‚ but was later taken over and newly ruled by Belgium. Belgium was quick to discriminate between the Hutu’s and Tutsis. “In 1933 Belgian rulers introduced ethnic ID cards and favored the Tutsis. Later they quickly switched sides and effortlessly supported the Hutu majority” (Riemer
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In just 100 days in 1944 over 800‚000 tutsis were killed in the Rwandan genocide. That is a horrible and shocking fact‚ but the worst fact is that no one stepped in to help them. From 1922 to 1962 Belgium came and took Rwanda over. There were two different kinds of people in Rwanda‚ the Hutus and the Tutsis. The Hutus made up about 85% of Rwanda while the Tutsi was a minority making up only about 14%. Despite being a minority Belgium favored the Tutsi people because of their longer noses and brighter
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The labels Hutu and Tutsi play into why the genocide occurred because the passage to genocide starts with more than one label to classify people. When people see this it is natural for the human brain to need leadership‚ to have a superior so‚ they figure out who
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were darker‚ shorter‚ and uneducated. The Tutsis were cattle farmers and were identified as a foreign race. The Tutsis were taller‚ skinnier‚ and well educated. Germany believed that the Tutsis were upper-class and have the majority of weapons. The Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central African nation of Rwanda murdered majority of the
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lasted more than 100 days and was the quickest killing spree that we have ever seen. It killed children‚ a lot of families. The Genocide was sparked when the Rwandan president Juvenal Habayirmana by getting shot down outside Kigali airport( he was a Hutu). The Genocide could’ve been prevented many many ways‚ outside leaders could have interfered with the whole mass killings and stopped Kalimanzara from supplying all the weapons. Tutsis also had a name or a symbol for them to be easily recognized by
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Throughout both works‚ The Merchant of Venice and Stories from Rwanda‚ deal with the way that people lose the sense of how to value a human life. In Tales from Rwanda‚ all of the Hutu people were taught to kill any Tutsi they met with little explanation. Gourevitch explains that there was reasoning that made sense to the Hutu leaders‚ like issues in their history and familial pasts‚ but often‚ the Hutus were not taught all of those reasons‚ they were just told to kill. The Hutus had always been jealous
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