set up a government where the Tutsi; minority group of cattle herders had power over the Hutu; majority group of farmers. The Belgians did this not knowing the difference of Hutu and Tutsi‚ being they were just social classes and not races. This led to an oppressed majority and then an armed machete revolution from the Hutus that was the genocide. Any other country could have stepped in and stopped the Hutu uprising or the distribution of machetes‚ they could have given protection for Tutsi. There
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African country called Rwanda. In Rwanda there were two tribes called the Hutus and the Tutsis. The break out of the genocide was an effect of longstanding competition and rivalry between the Hutu people who had come to power during this rebellion and the Tutsi people who were being targeted in the genocide. The Hutu people were not always in power in Rwanda (Doc. 7). During the time of Belgium colonial power in Rwanda the Tutsis took over the land and held control over the Hutus. Once the colonial power
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moral inhibitions about killing other humans‚ this changes if the target group is dehumanised so that its members are seen as worthless animals and therefore not worthy of moral consideration. In Rwanda (1994) the murder of 800‚000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu extremists are examples of this special form of institutional aggression. Staub (1999) had outlined five stages in the process of genocide that explained how difficult social conditions such as those found in pre-war Germany can hastily escalate into
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the process of sending Jews to the brutal concentration camps much easier. A similar form of discrimination was used during the Rwandan Genocide. In this case‚ ethnicity identification cards and checkpoints were used by the Hutu extremists to pinpoint whether a person is a Hutu or a Tutsi. If someone was to arrive at one of these checkpoints and discovered to be a Tutsi‚ they were murdered immediately (Longman 35). Being a Jew in Nazi Germany or a Tutsi in Rwanda meant one had to constantly face the
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Pol 348 | Term Paper | Jacob TwoTwo | | 301124186 | 11/6/2012 | Section: D101 Should ’Western ’ countries use military intervention to stop genocidal repression in weaker states‚ or is it an infringement of the sovereign rights of U.N. members to territorial integrity and political independence. Genocide is terribly crime against humanity that leaves immeasurable devastation in its wake. Stopping genocide and protecting human life should have much more importance than arbitrary
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and the majority Hutu peoples‚ who had come to power in the rebellion of
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Three groups stood in Rwanda‚ Hutu which took up a majority of the population about 85%‚ Tutsi around 14% of the population‚ and Twa 1%. Around the time of the 1880’s the first group of missionary European explorers set foot in Rwanda. It became a part of East Africa in 1899. After World War I in 1923‚ Rwanda was under the League of Nations authority of Belgian. Belgian ended up causing Tutsi‚ Hutu‚ and Twa to divide into three groups. It was never their intention to have the three groups divide
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and the Hutu who were the workers. Tutsi people had different physical features from the Hutu people. The Tutsi had high foreheads‚ long thin noses‚ and a tall slim bodies‚ whereas the Hutu had flat noses‚ large protruding foreheads‚ and a shorter‚ stockier build. These varied physical characteristics split them up into two different groups. Also‚ it was a commonly held belief that the Tutsi not only looked different‚ but they were actually considered better human beings than the Hutu. When Germany
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Based on history the conflict between the Hutu and Tusti people of Africa arose from a power conflict. Both people at one time lived harmonious together in the same country. But‚ after their Belgian leader left power‚ power was left in the hands of the Hutu people that had been oppressed for many years. The Hutu’s then decided to take revenge and begun killing as many Tutsi people as possible. This in turn began the genocide killings of the Tutsi people. 1/10 of the population had been murdered;
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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 oppressively‚ and the Hutu had not forgotten. After President Habyarimana of Rwanda‚ a Hutu‚ was killed when his plane was shot down while flying over the capital of Rwanda‚ the Hutus used the shroud of
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