UGANDA MARTYRS UNIVERSITY The East African School of Diplomacy‚ Governance and International Studies Department of Good Governance and Peace Studies Theme: Whose Community? Memory‚ Conflict and Tradition Topic: Conflict and formation of memory Paper Title: “Identity Formation after Conflict: Unhealed Memories in Framing the Future of the Society” A Seminar paper by: Katwesigye Doreen (2011-M161-10004) d.katwesigye@umu.ac.ug or dorynkaz@ymail.com Mobile: +256 775541482
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Millions of people around the world have never heard of the Rwandan genocide. May do not even know where Rwanda is or even what a genocide is. In 1994 the culture clash between the Hutu and the Tutsi exploded into a civil war and mass genocide. The United Nations along with the developed world sat back doing little or nothing and watched thousands of people die. The movie Hotel Rwanda illustrates the powerful representation of that horrific genocide‚ and highlights key points important to international
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The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina-the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994‚ hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina-the "Oskar Schindler of Africa"-refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy‚ flattery‚ and deception‚ he offered shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates‚ while homicidal mobs raged outside
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DISCRIMINATION ON ETHNIC GROUNDS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS Introduction Many societies all over the world have had to grapple with the problem of inter-group relations. Such concepts as apartheid‚ discrimination‚ prejudice‚ pogrom‚ ethnicity‚ hatred‚ fanaticism‚ intolerance‚ war and even terrorism are terms in common use all over the world. It is manifest that many societies tend to stratify themselves based on the strength of race or tribe. Ethnic discrimination represents one of the problems
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In Vietnam war the total amount of casualties is more than 1‚800 million people. In Rwanda after April 6‚ 1994‚ 800‚000 men‚ women‚ and children perished in the Rwandan genocide‚ perhaps as many as three quarters of the Tutsi population. Although the Rwandans are fully responsible for the organization and execution of the genocide‚ governments and peoples elsewhere all share in the shame of the crime because they failed to prevent and stop this killing campaign. Not only did international leaders
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(rifle) into his nostril. To this day Senator Dallaire swears the only reason this boy did not kill him right then and there was because he was holding a candy bar in his hand. The last story I mentioned brings up a very important part of this genocide. That is how to deal with little children being used as soldiers and weapons. Children are serving as weapons in over thirty conflicts that are now taking place in the world. Now the problem lies therein‚ for instance do you kill children who kill
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the most horrendously unpleasant happenings in recent history. While the Hutu extremists of Rwanda commenced a frightening campaign of genocide‚ massacring hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis while the rest of the world observed and did nothing. Paul is a very successful businessman who smoothly greases the wheels and makes powerful connections in all of Rwandan life. His wife‚ Tatiana‚ is a Tutsi. She urges Paul to use his influence to help local Tutsis‚ who are being harassed and beaten with
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the country disrupted the political system in Rwanda and political tensions were only heightened when Juvénal Habyarimana‚ a Hutu political leader‚ seized power in 1973. Unrest in the country continued to grow as a rebel group‚ the Tutsi-led RFP (Rwandan Patriotic Front)‚ emerged to challenge the Hutu government (Desforges‚1999).
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post-modern world‚ but are perhaps more suitable than ever before. The film which I will be discussing‚ Hotel Rwanda (2004)‚ relates the true story of Paul Rusesabagina‚ a man who sheltered over a thousand refugees in the hotel he managed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The film is useful as a focus point for the discussion of evil since the situation surrounding the events that took place during those months are often referred to in terms of evil – not only on the part of the Hutu militia that perpetrated
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