rivalry between two ethnic groups‚ the Hutus and the Tutsis. Both groups shared the same language‚ culture‚ territory‚ customs and beliefs but had different physical features and belonged to different ‘classes’. On the 6th of April 1994‚ the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed when their plane was shelled by rocket fire as it attempted to land at the airport in Kingali‚ Rwanda. The assassination of the Hutu president was attributed to the Tutsis just as a pretext to begin violence since
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a thousand Tutsi refugees when the Hutus killed all the Tutsis on their way. Hutu extremists within Rwanda’s political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s economic and political problems. The Tutsis were called cockroaches on the radio by the Interahamwe militia‚ that consists of Hutu extremists who planned to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed. Paul himself is a Hutu‚ but his women is Tutsi. You can see
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Are people inherently good or evil? A Yale study attempts to answer this question by deciphering whether young babies could choose right over wrong. One of the things they did within the study was a puppet show with two characters: one a “bad guy” and the other the “good guy”. After‚ the babies were told to choose which puppet they would rather play with. Results showed that the babies chose the "good guy" over the bad. This means that people are born with the ability to know the difference between
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Sykes Mr. Ptacek CSJ‚ Period G 8 September 2013 Rwandan Genocide In the film Hotel Rwanda‚ the story of Paul Rusesabagina’s life is put on display. It opens with a scene with the characters Paul and Dube‚ a fictional character based on the Tutsi workers of the Milles Collines. Paul is discussing what “style” is to Dube; they proceed to drive to pick up supplies from Georges Rutaganda. Rutaganda is a businessman and the leader of the Interhamwe militia group responsible for the genocide. At
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whole notion of ethics as societies can have norms which are not at all right as seen in the case of the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda. The Hutus were a majority (85%)of the population and through political propaganda they were incited to kill the minority Tutsis (14%). 800‚000 people were murdered in the name of tribal cleansing and at that point in time it was alright for a Hutu to kill a Tutsi as per what had become the norm. The entire world condemned this sordid act even though it was relatively
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Rednaxela R. Calderon ASSIGNMENT No. 4 HOTEL RWANDA GUIDE QUESTIONS: 1. If you were in the situation of Paul‚ how far would you go to protect your countrymen‚ when you know very well that this will cost you the life of your family? Will you abandon your family to save the lives of others? => If I will put myself in Paul’s situation‚ I think‚ I would help and protect my countrymen as long as I can and as long as I’m living. But first I’m going to ensure my family’s safety before I gamble
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The Rwandan Genocide was a mass killing of the Tutsis. Rwanda is an East African country with a mountainous terrain known for its volcanoes‚ golden monkeys‚ and gorillas; aside from that is home to 11.8 million people. A genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction‚ in whole or in a part of an ethnic‚ racial‚ religious‚ or national groups. It is the killing with intentions to groups by causing mental harm‚ preventing births‚ inflicting conditions of life‚ or transferring children to other
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and tensions between the minority Tutsi‚ who controlled power for centuries‚ and the majority Hutu peoples‚ who had overthrown the Tutsi monarchy and came into
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the middle of July. Other estimates of the death toll have ranged between 500‚000 and 1‚000‚000. This is equivalent to 20% of the country’s total population. It was the result of an old ethnic competition and tensions between the minority that was Tutsi‚ who had complete power of Rwanda for centuries‚ and the majority‚ which was Hutu. The Hutu came to power in the rebellion of
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started 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
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