something occurred in Rwanda that would change the country forever. On April 6‚ 1994 the Rwandan President Habyarimana (who belonged to the Hutu ethnic group) was killed when a missile was fired at his plane and caused it to crash near the Kigali Airport. This may have possibly been the event that sparked the grisly genocide of over 1.5 million Tutsi’s by Hutu extremists. These two ethnic groups which include the Hutus and Tutsi’s had been at odds with each other for decades. In this course‚ there
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made up of three different ethnic groups: the Hutu (approximately 85%)‚ Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%) ("Rwanda‚ Genocide‚ Hutu‚ Tutsi‚ Mass Execution‚ Ethnic Cleansing‚ Massacre‚ Human Rights‚ Victim Remembrance‚ Education‚ Africa." UN News Center. UN‚ n.d.) In the early 1990s‚ Hutu fundamentalists within the political elite of Rwandan began to blame the Tutsi minority for growing economic‚ social and political struggles of the country. ("Rwanda‚ Genocide‚ Hutu‚ Tutsi‚ Mass Execution‚
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Staff)Towards the end of the movie‚ some of the Hutu people are turning in other Hutu people because of a difference in beliefs. “1‚268 people who took refuge inside the hotel.” (NewsWeek) Everyone who took refuge in the hotel had mixed emotions about what could happen and if the situation that they were in could lead
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the Tutsis (14%) and the Twa (1%). Hutu extremists within Rwanda’s political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s increasing social‚ economic‚ and political pressures. Habyarimana‚ the Rwandan president‚ deepened divides between Tutsis and Hutus through constant political manoeuvring and propaganda. On April 6‚ 1994‚ a plane carrying the president was shot down and violence erupted almost immediately. Under the cover of war‚ Hutu extremists launched their plans in
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Rwandan Patriotic Front‚ and fought the Hutu’s for the same reason the Hutu’s fought them. Grievance can be pointed to as the predominant cause of conflict in the Rwandan Civil War‚ as well as in the pursuing Congo wars. In the Congo‚ a large flow of Hutu refugees proved to be a problem in the area‚ mainly because of the Congolese leader. Masked by all of the immigration‚ Mobutu took away citizenship and homes of
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idea that all people are equal and have the right to pursue happiness no matter who they are‚ where they are from‚ their skin color‚ age‚ or sex‚ etc. If these countries believe these things to be true‚ why was there not a mass intervention when the Hutu militia in Rwanda took it upon themselves to kill hundreds of thousands of people based solely on their ethnicity? It seems that if these countries are not going to benefit in some way‚ then they have no desire to help or intervene when there is a
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is the uneven allocation of power in the colony era and the Rwandan Civil War‚ between the Hutu and Tutsi in 1990. When Rwanda was still a French and Belgian colony‚ Tutsi-supremacy has been advocated by the suzerain. Thus‚ the seed of racial conflict has been sowed. Also‚ after WWII‚ Rwanda started to gain independence‚ meanwhile‚ the tension between the Tutsi‚ who favored early independence‚ and the Hutu emancipation movement has escalated to the mass slaughter of opposing race by themselves. The
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with the Rwandan Civil War which was fought between the Hutu regime and the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The Hutu Power claimed that the Tutsi people intended to enslave the Hutu people. This started periodic killings of the Tutsi people. In 1994‚ after the assassination of Habyarimana‚ things escalated very violently. Hutus began mass killings of the Tutsi people and even their own Hutu people that they considered traitors. Several members of the Hutu Power were also high up in the government‚ and the killings
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Many people do not know the differences between race and ethnicity. Race is defined by the physical characteristics‚ while ethnicity is by the nationality or cultural region. I define race as something that separates people. I do not like to even use race to define myself because I begin to be characterize by it. Race is a factor that was used back in the days to make the differences in people. Race made people realize that they are different than the one other person. Race begin to be have a social
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carrying the president of Rewanda‚ Juvenal Habyarimana‚ and the president of Burundian‚ crashed. This event started the tragedy. The uprising was against the Tutsi and Hutu people and spanned the entire country. It took only a few hours for the rebels to take over the capital of Kigali and the massacre continued until the Hutu movement was beaten. The Rwandan Patriotic (RPF) front was targeted for extermination by the Hutus. As the violence continued to get worse‚ the RPF fought back but this
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