Outline of the Rwandan Genocide: Draft Introduction Rwanda is a small land-locked nation‚ about 26‚338 square kilometres in size‚ bordered by Burundi‚ Democratic Republic of Congo‚ Uganda and Tanzania. Though mainly flat‚ the country has a large mountain range on its northwest coast – the Virunga Mountains – that are home to the famous Rwandan Mountain Gorillas. In 1994‚ this seemingly insignificant country put itself on the world map‚ but for all the wrong reasons. Over a period of just one hundred
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Night and Hotel Rwanda Similarities Throughout the course of humanity‚ we have experienced terrible transgressions in our society. Although they took place sixty-one years apart‚ similar horrific events from the Holocaust (1933-1945) and the Rwandan Genocide (1994) occurred. In Night‚ the Holocaust was the systematic‚ bureaucratic‚ state sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis believed they were “racially superior”
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Genocide is the deliberate and systematic killing of a racial‚ cultural or religious group. The Rwandan Genocide‚ which resulted in the mass murdering of over 800 000 Tutsi people‚ was one of the shortest but largest civil wars in earths history. Its cause‚ which is still debated about by historians today‚ has been a controversial topic since its occurrence. While it was sparked directly by the death of the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana (a Hutu) when his plane was shot down‚ many believe
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For replacement credit‚ I watched the film‚ Hotel Rwanda. In this reaction paper I will write my impressions and reaction to the film‚ as well as address the film as it relates to the concepts of human geography that I have learned over the semester. The movie is about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. The movie shows how Hutu extremists mass murdered the Tutsi population and how one Hutu named Paul Rusesabagina‚ a hotel manager‚ helped save the lives of his friends and family and over one
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What is the Darfur Genocide? -A current mass slaughter of Darfuri men‚ women and children that began in the spring of 2003 -In September of 2004 President George W. Bush declared this Crisis Genocide Where is this taking place? -This is taking place in Sudan‚ Africa (Largest country in Africa) -Darfur is a region in Western Sudan which is where this Genocide is taking place -About the size of Texas -Population is an estimated 6‚000‚000 -Divided into 3 states -There are between 40-80 ethnic
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Trough watching the movie ‘Hotel Rwanda’ it shows a saddening and disheartening side of the Rwanda Genocide. The Rwandan Genocide began on the 6th of April 1994‚ where the Hutu population began mass slaughtering of the Tutsi. There were two different groups killing people they were‚ the Interahamwe and the Hutu rebellious. The genocide killed upwards of eight hundred thousand people mainly Tutsi‚ and created two million refugees. The genocide was a major mass killing where people still to this day
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basis in which the Rwandan Genocide could occur and prosper. In 1994‚ the global community collectively turned a blind eye toward the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people‚ revealing the world governments ignorance and apathy. Within the span of one hundred days‚ the media of the world managed to misconstrue and guide the audience into violence as well as pessimism against the innocent Tutsis and Hutus. From the beginning to the end of the Rwandan Genocide the women victimized‚ both
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of an act is known as genocide. A typical definition of genocide is the intension to eliminate‚ murder certain group of people because of their race‚ beliefs or even political and economic status. Throughout the decades‚ genocide has occurred in more than one occasion‚ causing wars‚ slaughters and destruction of cities and towns even though every time when one genocide is taking place we promise that it will not happen again but still it does. I personally think that genocide is by far the most horrible
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The film hotel Rwanda is about a man named Paul Rusebagina who worked in a hotel in Rwanda‚ Rwanda was going through a war phase and The Hutu’s wanted to kill all the Tutsis because of earlier incidents between the two nations. What caused this was the Tutsis when they stole Hutu land and treated them like slaves. Paul turns his hotel into a refugee camp for Tutsis while the Hutus are fighting back. In the film hotel Rwanda‚ the Tutsis are being hunted and assassinated so paul lets them hide in
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PATRONAGE AND CLIENTSHIP IN RWANDA INTRODUCTION Patronage: The process of appointing persons to government positions on the basis of political support and work rather than on merit. It is also called the ‘spoils system’. Clientship: The state of being under the protection of a man of wealth and influence (patron) and a client. The genocide which took place in Rwanda and which‚ according to most estimates‚ has claimed the lives of about a million people in the most atrocious ways imaginable while
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