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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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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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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killing took place in Rwanda‚ located in Africa near the equator. It is one of the most populated countries in Africa‚ and is also one of the poorest countries in the world. The feud started because Rwanda was under the Belgian administration and the Tutsi were being treated better than the Hutu people were (Longman 2-3). In Rwanda two people lived. The Hutu occupied the majority of the population‚ while the Tutsi people made up the rest. These two groups lived together in Rwanda for many years with
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Hotel Rwanda why didn’t the US or Europe intervene to stop this genocide? The major sociological issue in this movie was the continued genocide of the Tutsis by Hutu militia groups. On April 6‚ 1994‚ the Rwandan president‚ a Hutu‚ was killed when his plane was shot down over Kigali airport. Hutu politicians blamed Tutsis for the president’s death and within hours‚ loosely organized Hutu militia groups known collectively as the Interhamwe began mobilizing across Rwanda. In a preplanned campaign
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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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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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What were the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide? The causes of the Rwandan genocide were deeply seeded to the collapse and struggle for dominance within a previously established hierarchy. The roots of ethnic conflicts often find themselves tied to arbitrary guidelines of division between groups. It is this segregation that leads to a fight for power when a hierarchy becomes destabilized. This is exactly the case with the Rwandan genocide of 1994: the intervention of Belgian colonialism
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The Catholic Church in Rwanda has admitted and apologized for its role in the 1994 genocide and expressed regret for violating God’s commands. In a statement released by the conference of Catholic bishops and read out in parishes across Rwanda on Sunday‚ the church acknowledged its hand in planning‚ aiding‚ and executing the 1994 genocide. The massacres by Hutu extremists left more than 800‚000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead‚ The Associated Press details. “We apologize for all the wrongs the
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conflict between the groups until 1959 (“Rwanda genocide of 1994”). In 1959‚ tensions flared when the Hutu people attacked the Tutsi in retaliation for the Tutsi supposedly killing a Hutu leader (“Rwanda genocide of 1994”). Over the next thirty-five years‚ the Hutu abolished the Tutsi monarchy and rose to power (“Rwanda genocide of 1994”). The genocide started when a plane carrying Habyarimana president was shot down by Hutu extremists on April 6‚ 1994 (“Rwanda genocide of 1994”). This act of violence
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