follow the same traditions. The difference between the two types of people is that Tutsis are often taller and thinner than Hutus. The Rwandan Genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana‚ who was an important Hutu figure. On April 6‚ 1994‚ his plane was brought down by a rocket attack that was apparently planned by a previous Rwandan President‚ Paul Kagame‚ who was the leader of a Tutsi rebel group at that time. The death of the Habyarimana led to the beginning
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late nine- teen fifties there was a huge increase of intensity over decolonization in Rwanda‚ because Hutus wanted independence . "In November 1959‚ a violent incident sparked a Hutu uprising in which hundreds of Tutsi were killed and thousands displaced and forced to flee to neighboring countries." This started a the ‘Hutu Peasant Revolution’ which had only continued for two years 1959 to 1961‚ which had ended the Tutsi domination and now has obviously started negative ethnic tensions between each
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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Civil War is rooted in history. Hundreds of years before their civil war‚ many people were kidnapped and forced into slavery. Ensuring a safe place aboard their own ships from disease and illness‚ European slave traders would employ the help of local tribal leaders to find people to be slaves and bring them to the coast. Slaves were usually traded for weapons to be used in conflicts with neighboring tribes. The Congo region learned early on that their inhabitants
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(Brouwer‚ 1998). The conflict in Rwanda was between two ethnic groups‚ the Hutu and the Tutsi‚ who had historically been pitted against each other by their European colonizers. In 1994‚ the Hutu president was assassinated and the Tutsis were promptly blamed‚ beginning 100 days of slaughter and rape. Hutu propaganda and orders from army commanders encouraged the rape of Tutsi women and sympathetic or moderate Hutu women. No one was spared based on age‚ gender and ethnicity were the only determining
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90’s marked one of the bloodiest chapters in African History. Based on a true story‚ director Terry George’s war-time drama is set in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigah during 1994 civil genocide. Rwanda erupted with genocidal rage after the country’s Hutu president was assassinated. The Hutus blamed the murder on the hated Tutsi minority and took up firearms and murdered many of their Tutsi neighbors. The political situation was about to explode. Two ethnic groups‚ the Tutsis and the Hutus had been
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From 1916-1959 under Belgium colonial rule tensions worsened between the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s in Rwanda. These tensions resulted in the mass killings of Tutsi’s from April-July 1994 where 800 000 Tutsi’s were killed. This event was constituted as genocide based on the 8 stages of Genocide and correlates with the definition of genocide set out by the United Nations in 1948‚ however the United Nations and the Western countries especially the USA considered the killings as part of a civil war. From
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power and control of Rwanda. Genocide constantly cleanses Rwanda’s streets as people turn away in fear. Paul Rusesabagina is a hotel manager for the Hotel Des Mille Collines in Kigali‚ Rwanda. He being a Hutu helps his family and other people they know‚ most Tutsis like his wife‚ take refuge from the Hutu army in his hotel. Before they even reach the hotel‚ they get taken by the Hutus and Paul has to pay General Bizimungu one hundred thousand Francs to spare the lives of his Tutsi friends that first took
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announced the superiority of one group while denouncing the inferiority of another. In Cambodia‚ it was the government’s reinstitution of an original Khmer peasant society by wiping out the other ethnic‚ educated‚ and religious groups in the country. Hutu supremacy by the acts of extermination and persecution within the pretext of ancient myths of Tutsi tyranny was the story of Rwanda while Bosnia replaced the Aryan superiority with the dominance of Greater Serbia and the target of Jews and Gypsies
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4-star Mille Collines. He has 2 children and his wife is named Tatiana. When the Hutu begin killing the Tutsis‚ the real manager of the Mille Collines fled and Paul was moved up to his position. He reluctantly allows over 1‚000 refugees to stay at the Mille Collines and protects his family at all costs. He is trusted by his neighbors and family and most of the refugees and employees at the Mille Collines. When the Hutu came‚ Paul’s neighbors went straight to his house. Paul starts out reluctantly helping
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estimated 800‚000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus. * The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana‚ a Hutu‚ when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on 6 April 1994. * A French judge has blamed current Rwandan President‚ Paul Kagame - at the time the leader of a Tutsi rebel group - and some of his close associates for carrying out the rocket
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