Conflict is prominent in our world today and that is obvious in the small African country of Rwanda where Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups are engulfed in a bloody battle for control of their country. There are many differing ideas as to what the rest of the world‚ mostly Western countries‚ should do about the current conflict. Some would argue that the West must intervene in this African affair in order to establish peace‚ but I do not believe that an intervention would be helpful. As a Nigerian citizen
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The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of the Rwanda ’s Tutsi minority and the moderates of its Hutu majority‚ in 1994. This was both the bloodiest period of the Rwandan Civil War and one of the worst genocides of the 1990s. With the preliminary implementation of the Arusha Accords‚ the Tutsi rebels and Hutu regime were able to agree to a cease-fire‚ and further negotiations were underway. The diplomatic efforts to end the conflict were at first thought to be successful‚ yet even with the
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colonized and made them feel superior to others.In Rwanda ‚ the imperialist nation believed that Tutsi were born to be a leader ‚ so the Tutsi were put in power.How did tensions between the two ethnic groups after decolonization sparked the Rwandan Genocide? Years before the genocide took place‚ Rwanda was colonized by Belgium .The Belgians divided Rwanda population into two groups ‚ the Hutu ‚the Tutsi and Twa in order to strengthen their control of Rwanda. As stated by the American University Washington
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Rwanda‚ a small landlocked country in central Africa‚ has a long and rich history of differences and conflicts. One of the most known historic events of this region is the Rwandan Genocide which took 800‚000 lives over the course of four months (Britannica). The conflict between two tribal groups‚ the Hutu and Tutsis‚ had been accumulating for decades before it finally reached its breaking point. The Rwandan genocide can be attributed to three main factors: Belgian colonial policies‚ tribal tensions
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happened in Rwanda during 1994. The United Nations tried to mediate a cease-fire and bring peace to Rwanda‚ but it didn’t work out successfully. The main reason why UN was poorly equipped and insufficient‚ UN responded too late and Rwanda refused the UN’s support. The United Nations did make some contributions such as establishing the United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda(UNOMUR) along the border between Uganda and Rwanda‚ and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) for
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Rwanda‚ being a landlocked country‚ by definition has already been placed in the “bad neighbor trap” meaning that the economic growth of the country has already been throttled via the lack of international trade. This lack of trade meant that despite having the natural resources Rwanda was forced to trade either with its adjacent neighbors or make a long and costly intercontinental journey to
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Transitional Justice in Rwanda How did the use of combined strategies of the ICTR and the Gacaca work in the Rwandan case‚ could it be seen as modern day model for transitional justice? In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda‚ the international community and the Rwandan government embraced criminal prosecution as the primary approach to the restoration of law and order in the country. Leaders and policy makers inside and outside Rwanda cited breaking “the
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Name: Name of Instructor: Subject: Date: Ethnic Conflict in Rwanda The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is‚ by all accounts‚ the worst war related disaster since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in World War II. In Rwanda‚ 800‚000 people died in less than one hundred days. As the well wishers of Europe and the United States turned a blind eye to what was happening in Rwanda‚ thousands of machete-wielding youths turned Rwanda into a mass grave. Although‚ the United Nations sent its peacekeepers
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Slaughter in Rwanda Webster’s Dictionary the word genocide as “a systematic killing of‚ or a program of action intended to destroy a whole nationality or ethnic groups.” There have been many famous attempts at ridding the world of a certain group of people. One example that many people think of is the Holocaust where the Nazis and Hitler tried to rid Europe of Jews. Another genocide was the Greek Genocide which lasted from 1915-1918 and about 800‚000 people were killed in three years. They used
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mostly by the communist governments (Dominic & Abimbola‚ 39). The figures are quite shocking. This clearly depicts that government exploits the innocent people and incite them to stand against their brothers and sisters. The same story happened in Rwanda‚ It was the Habyarimanian government‚ who planned the genocide a long time before to retain their political power. The magnitude of the genocide was so intense that on the very first day 30‚000 people were mascaraed in Kigali only‚ a rate far faster
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