deployment of peace keeping forces as there were arguments about who would finance the operation. Finally the genocide came to a halt with the help of an exiled group of Tutsi rebels known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The RPF returned to Rwanda and ended the killings and took down the Hutu government. The genocide was over and 800‚000 Tutsis had lost their lives in 100 days. This genocide proved to be one of the most horrific in recent history
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terms of genocide‚ you put them into specific distinguishable groups. Both the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust included this step in their genocides. Jews and Germans were known and people could identify themselves in their countries as Hutus and Tutsis are in Rwanda. Though the way they were classified was not the same. “The Jews‚ according to Hitler‚ were the racial opposite[of the Germans]‚ and were actively engaged in an international conspiracy to keep this master race from assuming its rightful
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name of Paul Rusesabagina saved 1‚268 Tutsis through goodwill and courageous negotiations‚ are chronically ordered and told in detail. Ominously‚ the author introduces you into a standard of life that to us seems inexistent. The Tutsi tribe was historically seen as the ruling class of Rwanda while Hutu were considered farmer folk. Following World War I the Belgians were authoritarian rulers in the region‚ fueling further disputes between the Hutu and the Tutsi people by dividing them stereotypically-the
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a thousand Tutsi refugees when the Hutus killed all the Tutsis on their way. Hutu extremists within Rwanda’s political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s economic and political problems. The Tutsis were called cockroaches on the radio by the Interahamwe militia‚ that consists of Hutu extremists who planned to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed. Paul himself is a Hutu‚ but his women is Tutsi. You can see
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register all Tutsi in Kigali. He suspects it is for their extermination. Example he gave is that in twenty minutes his personnel could kill up to a thousand Tutsis. * Informant states he disagrees with anti-Tutsi extermination. He supports opposition to RPF but cannot support killing of innocent persons. He also stated that he believes the President does
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In the years before and the first months of the year 1994‚ the Hutus and Tutsis stood as enemies but lived in peace in their own share of Rwanda‚ but little did the Tutsis know about what the Hutus were planning in the short years before. Malika‚ an eighteen year old Tutsi girl‚ walked around in her house on the quiet‚ sunny morning of April 6th‚ 1994‚ helping her parents get the house ready for a visit from her aunt and uncle. That night‚ after welcoming them and chatting away‚ as Malika was getting
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The Belgian colonialism lead the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda because The Belgians put the Tutsis in power. The Tutsis were well dressed and the minority of the population of Rwanda and also had all the power. The Hutus were treated with little respect and were limited with jobs that would bring them great wealth. The main character Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager but was also a Tutsis who housed Tutsis refugee and helped people try to survive the riots that the Hutus were
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different groups are to blame for the genocide before‚ during and after. Rwanda was divided into two groups known as the Tutsis and the Hutus. Before the Europeans arrived‚ the elite were the Tutsi cattle herders while the peasant farmers were known as the Hutus. In 1917 Rwanda was given to Belgium from Germany and by 1933 they already introduced ethnic ID cards and favoured the Tutsis. Not surprisingly‚ they agreed and welcomed this idea. And for the next twenty years they enjoyed better jobs and educational
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genocide have been labeled as a category of “genocide”. And because of this categorization of the Hutu and Tutsi; they became victims of the “nouns that cut slices” (218)‚ a phrase that Allport uses for “the names that help us to perform the clustering” (218). The Rwanda genocide also opened the eyes of the people to Allport’s idea of “emotionally toned labels” (220); the labels of being a Hutu and Tutsi had many connotations both bad consequently leading to their clash because of the “misunderstanding
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after the assassination of president‚ all the roads were blocked by Hutu militia; these blocked roads and Hutu barriers eventually became the base of executions and rapes. The major aim of this sexual violence was degradation and humiliation of the Tutsi. Tutsi women were brutally raped and their sexual organs were injured with spears‚ gun barrels‚ machetes and acids too. According to the Amnesty International report of 2004‚ approximately 250‚000 to 500‚000 Rwandan women were raped during the genocide
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