Rwanda gaining independence from Belgium in 1962‚ the country experienced a constant battle of right between the Hutu and the Tutsi religious groups. The Tutsi‚ although being the minority making up only 15-percent of the population‚ enjoyed privileged lives. However‚ following the country’s independence‚ the country experienced three decades of Hutu rule‚ under which the Tutsi faced extreme discrimination and bursts of extermination. This continual struggle between groups‚ and the assassination of
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themselves as one people. In 1916‚ Belgium colonized Rwanda‚ introducing a system of identity cards separating the majority Hutus from the minority Tutsis. The Tutsis were given preference in education‚ jobs and power. In 1959‚ when Rwanda gained independence‚ the Hutus rebelled and took over the government‚ exiling and killing Tutsis. In 1990 a Tutsi-led‚ multi-ethnic rebel group‚ the Rwandan Patriotic Force (RPF)‚ invaded from Uganda. French troops intervened. The invasion ended when both sides
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Hutus from being killed by the Tutsi. Theme 1 which is Interaction Between Humans and the Environment applies in the movie. Theme 1 means the development of demography‚ disease‚ migration‚ patterns of settlement‚ technology etc. In the movie‚ the Tutsi are getting revenge on the Hutus because of years of humiliation and being treated like slaves. Throughout the movie‚ the Hutus migrate from their homes and then some to The Milles Collines to be hidden from the Tutsi rebels. Others tried going to
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ruling Hutu government in this blood-filled century. The movie revolves around the protagonist Paul Rusesabagina‚ a house manager of a four star Hotel Milles Collines‚ who experienced this slaughter and acted as a superhero by sheltering more than 1100 Tutsis and Rwandans and saved their lives from the Hutu militia. The movie illustrates that there was an old historical conflict between two ethnic groups Hutus and Tutus‚ which planted the seeds of civil war which then molded into a massive genocide. There
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president was assassinated. The Hutus blamed the murder on the hated Tutsi minority and took up firearms and murdered many of their Tutsi neighbors. The political situation was about to explode. Two ethnic groups‚ the Tutsis and the Hutus had been turned against each other by the white Belgian settlers‚ who literally measured skin tone and nose width to elevate the Tutsis to preferred positions. In a few months‚ more than one million Tutsi men‚ women and children were harshly murdered while United Nations
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ethnic groups in Rwanda‚ Hutu and Tutsi. The story itself centers on Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle)‚ a manager of an extravagant Des Mille Collines hotel in Kigali. The problem between the two ethnic groups arises when the Hutu extremists set out a plan to eradicate all the Tutsis in Kigali. The Hutu extremists even propagate the message that all Tutsis are worth nothing and calling them “cockroaches” through a radio station. The atrocities escalate when some of the Tutsi rebels murdered the President
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phenotype‚ nationality‚ race‚ ethnicity‚ or religion‚ not to be confused with an “ethnic cleansing”‚ which is the purposeful removal of a specific group of people from a geographical area. An example of genocide is the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The Tutsi people were targeted and oppressed by the Hutu government after being blamed for their president being assassinated‚ and because of a political power struggle between the two ethnicities in Rwanda after gaining independence from discriminatory German
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this war took place‚ the Hutu people made and launched plans to wipe out the Tutsi population. The Hutus were majorly successful in this act‚ and during the uyear 1994‚ killed approximately 800‚000 Tutsi men‚ women and children. This was caused by the hutu’s rise to power. they were the majority of the population‚ and they wanted to gain and keep power of the country. the war and genocide ended only when the RPF‚ a Tutsi-dominated rebel group‚ defeated the Hutu perpetrators and a new president took
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controlled by the minor (10%) Tutsi. The Tutsi were given this elevated position by the colonizing Germans‚ who viewed them as superior due to them having more "European" characteristics‚ i.e. lighter skin and taller build. When the Belgians to over Rwanda‚ the role was solidified with identity cards which labeled each person a Tutsi or a Hutu. When Belgium saw Rwanda as collateral when the people began to revolt‚ they switched the role of the two classes‚ leaving the Tutsi at the mercy of the Hutu.
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comparing Tutsis and Hutus with Cain and Abel. In the first paragraph of the fourth chapter‚ Gourevitch begins to explain the story of Cain and Abel. “In the famous story‚ the older brother‚ Cain‚ was a cultivator‚ and Abel‚ the younger‚ was a herdsman. They made their offerings to God-- Cain from his crops‚ Abel from his herds. Abel’s portion won God’s regard; Cain’s did not. So Cain killed Abel” (Gourevitch 47). Later on in the chapter‚ Gourevitch says that‚ “Hutus were cultivators and Tutsis were
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