Hotel Rwanda John Breymaier Comparative 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
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Rwanda’s population of seven million people was composed of three ethnic groups: 1. Hutu (approximately 85%) 2. Tutsi (approx. 14%) 3. Twa (approx. 1%) Who Are the Hutu‚ Tutsi and Twa? The Hutu and Tutsi are two peoples who share a common past. When Rwanda was first settled‚ the people who lived there raised cattle. Soon‚ the people who owned the most cattle were called "Tutsi" and everyone else was called "Hutu." At this time‚ a person could easily change categories through marriage or cattle
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Rwandans against each other. The Rwandan Genocide is when the Hutu tribe tried to eliminate the Tutsi tribe. The Tutsis and Hutus of Rwanda did not do the whole entire genocide alone‚ in fact they had help from the Belgians. Before the Belgians colonized Rwanda‚ the Hutus and Tutsis and Twa got along well and there was peace in Rwanda. After the Belgians instituted a classification system making Tutsis more superior tension began to rise between the two tribes. This rivalry lasted for a long time
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interruption. The Rwandan Genocide occurred during the latter part of the Rwandan Civil War after the assassination of former president Juvénal Habyarimana. Close associates of Habyarimana believed the Tutsis to be behind his assassination‚ thus prompting procession of a planned extermination of the Tutsis (Des Forges‚ pp.6). Nonetheless‚ the systematic killing was a result of a multitude of events for which the assassination served as a breaking
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different ethnic groups: the Hutu (approximately 85%)‚ Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%) ("Rwanda‚ Genocide‚ Hutu‚ Tutsi‚ Mass Execution‚ Ethnic Cleansing‚ Massacre‚ Human Rights‚ Victim Remembrance‚ Education‚ Africa." UN News Center. UN‚ n.d.) In the early 1990s‚ Hutu fundamentalists within the political elite of Rwandan began to blame the Tutsi minority for growing economic‚ social and political struggles of the country. ("Rwanda‚ Genocide‚ Hutu‚ Tutsi‚ Mass Execution‚
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Rwanda. For the specific purpose of this paper I will attempt to answer or at least to shed some light on the first of the five questions stated in the previous paragraph. THE COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE The origins of the three main ethnic groups: Hutu‚ Tutsi‚ and Twa. Until now the origins of Rwanda’s three main ethnic groups’ remains clouded in mystery. The Twa Pigmies who continue to live in the North of the country and constitute only 1% of the population are believed to have been the first inhabitants
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country was taken over by the Belgians. When the Belgian colonists arrived in 1916‚ they produced identity cards classifying people according to their origin. The Tutsis are often taller and thinner than Hutus‚ with some saying their origins lie in Ethiopia. The Belgians considered the Tutsis to be superior to the Hutus. Not surprisingly‚ the Tutsis
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Once inside the church with thousands of other Tutsis‚ they took a few breaths of relief‚ thinking they were finally safe. Seconds later‚ Hutus storm the church with machetes‚ killing every single mother‚ father‚ and child in their paths. Madalena and Lucie luckily escaped and were able to hide with sympathetic people in the forest during the genocide. However‚ thousands of others were not so lucky. “By the end of the day‚ 11‚500 people had been murdered in and around the church. The next day‚ another 10‚000 Tutsis were killed in the football stadium
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was a hotel manager at the Hotel Des Mille Collines when these atrocities began. He managed to house over a thousand Tutsi refugees during the war that was led by the Hutu militia. This war started on April 4‚ 1994‚ one day after Tutsi rebels shot down the airplane of Rwanda’s Hutu president‚ Juvenal Habyarimana. The war lasted until July 15th of that year; nearly a million Tutsi men‚ women‚ and children were slaughtered. The movie was written by Terry George and Keir Pearson‚ George also produced
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Rwanda had been the home of oppression throughout most of its history‚ the center of the issues revolving around the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Hutu make up the majority in Rwanda while the Tutsi make up the minority.1 Ever since‚ these two groups started inhabiting the same area‚ they have struggled for power. Initially it was the Tutsi‚ then the Hutu‚ and now the Tutsi again. Amidst this struggle for power came the Rwandan Civil War and the Rwandan Genocide. There are many opinions on the war and
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