Rafael Vitar SFC Rivera JROTC-2 PER: 8 1/10/11 Hotel Rwanda the movie is about the Hutu extremists of Rwanda beginning a terrifying campaign of genocide‚ killing hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis while the rest of the world did nothing to help. The main character of this story is Paul Rusesabagina‚ a hotel manager at the fancy Les Milles Collines hotel in Kigali. Rusesabagina’s acts to save the lives of his family and more than a thousand other refugees‚ by granting them shelter in
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Will FDLR rebels ever leave Congo and return to Rwanda? Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide‚ some of those responsible are still wreaking havoc in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo‚ where they are terrorising the local population and profiting from the area’s rich natural resources. The BBC’s Grainne Harrington reports on the UN’s attempts to persuade them to lay down their weapons and return home. Vincent Miranzi" is on the legal affairs commission of the Democratic Forces for the
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systems vital to their survival can take different forms‚ as the following examples illustrate: when Rwandan refugees fled into former Zaire‚ the mortality rate rose sharply‚ to as much as 10 times what is regarded as the threshold of extreme emergency‚ and large scale displacement invariably causes a dramatic increase in malnutrition rates. In children under the age of five‚ this can reach 20% (Rwandan refugees in Zaire‚ 1994) or even 50% (Somalia‚ 1992). Aid for victims of conflict remains the primary
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Intervention in the Rwandan Genocide: Prevention preferable‚ but better intervention second best The Hutus and Tutsis were not traditionally different‚ and ethnicity in Rwanda only became important during Belgium colonization when the more European-looking Tutsis were chosen as the aristocracy to rule over the Hutus. After Rwanda ’s independence in 1961 the Hutu majority‚ comprising roughly 85% of the population‚ ruled the country. Between 1961 and the outbreak of genocide in 1994 many Tutsis
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Rusesabagina saved more than 1‚200 refugees in his hotel‚ what was the world doing to help refugees during the genocide? Nothing‚ the UN hardly helped at all during the entire genocide. Paul was the hotel manager for the hotel Diplomates‚ a high end hotel where foreigner government officials stayed. Another hotel‚ hotel Mille Collines‚ was another hotel Paul had access to. During the Rwandan genocide Paul kept over a thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu save in the walls of the Mille Collines. He kept these
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Armenian Genocide Power is a five letter word that continues to exist since the time of creation up until now. It has stirred human emotions from exultations to greed. To be above and be of great power over something or someone is a part of human nature. Power has seen the acquisition of great wealth‚ the growth of empires‚ the birth of nations and heroes. But the search for power has also been the biggest downfall of men. A great example is the Mass Murder of the Ottoman Empire‚ also known as
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Criminal Justice Strayer University Steven Holeman January 30th‚ 2013 From watching the movie‚ why do you think the international community allowed the massacre to occur? The decision of the international community not to intervene in the Rwandan conflict was result of many different factors. Firstly‚ no country felt like they could justify sending their men and women into harm’s way in order to settle a “local conflict” in a part of the world that most people had probably never heard of
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Genocide is when a certain racial‚ political or cultural group is being killed. Genocide happens all the time and is not being stopped. The biggest genocide known to man is the genocide that happened during World War 2. The slaughter of 6 million jews in counting by ‚the leader of the nazis‚ Hitler. The world is still facing Genocide even after that tragedy and really nothing is being done about it. There are many groups of people that are apart of a genocide of some kind in the modern day. Syria
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(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” so they killed the Jews because they were deemed “inferior” and needed to be eliminated. Hotel Rwanda tackles a recent event in history where the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide‚ massacring
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Forgive but why? April 6‚ 2014 marked 20 years after the Rwanda genocide in 1994. Most people today have heard about the genocide in Rwanda. 20 years later‚ Rwanda can show us how to forgive and live on. The Hutu and Tutsi’s are two‚ not so different‚ ethnics that live in Rwanda together. The people were classified as two different ethnics when really there isn’t any difference‚ only one is generally taller (Johnson 1). The tension and history between the Hutu and Tutsi’s rivalry shocked the 20th
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