towards the Tutsis (Belgium had once ruled over Rwanda). The Belgians concluded that the Tutsis were superior to the Hutus‚ two similar ethnic groups living In Rwanda. After 20 years‚ the Hutus had enough and they started a revolution that drove nearly away 300‚000 Tutsis ("The Rwandan Genocide"). The Hutu Revolution granted Rwanda independence and the Hutus created their own government. Years afterwards‚ Rwandan exiles‚ mostly Tutsi
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have them soon follow the same destiny as your parents. To you‚ the hutus are the reason all of this has happened. It’s not you’re fault you’re a Tutis. Up until now you loved who were you were; but now‚ you’re questioning everything. If you were a Tutsis living in 1994 Rwanda‚ there is a very strong chance that you or someone you loved was going to be slaughtered by a Hutu. But if you
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In this course‚ there have been a number of theories and concepts that have been examined and studied. Many of these theories apply to the situation that the Hutu and Tutsi people have found themselves in ever since the beginning of their power struggle in 1926 when the Belgians decided to classify the group as either Hutu or Tutsi‚ giving considerable favor to the Tutsi’s. One of these concepts is self-justification‚ which involves convincing oneself that a group is in some way inferior so that
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CRITICAL REVIEW We have been given a task to write a critical review on the theme Conflict and Resolution based on the movie screened‚ Hotel Rwanda. This film captures the unimaginable violence of genocide by telling the true story of a person‚ Paul Rusesabagina‚ manager of the Hotel Mille Collines in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali who fights impossible odds to save everyone he can and provide a shelter where hope survives. While the rest of the world closed its eyes‚ Paul opened his heart and
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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 fled the regime due to its discriminatory practices and anti-Tutsi policies. Even after gaining
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United Nations (UN) were delivering Tutsi civilians to an airport to export them out of Rwanda.While his family went with the UN Peter stayed behind at his hotel.Even though they end up having to returned to the hotel by Hutu rebels this decision was morally right for Peter do that. First of all he runs the hotel.In the movie Peter treats the hotel as any old normal hotel while in reality he is trying to hide Tutsi civilians. When the UN tried to delivered Tutsi including Peter’s family they still
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Conflict is prominent in our world today and that is obvious in the small African country of Rwanda where Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups are engulfed in a bloody battle for control of their country. There are many differing ideas as to what the rest of the world‚ mostly Western countries‚ should do about the current conflict. Some would argue that the West must intervene in this African affair in order to establish peace‚ but I do not believe that an intervention would be helpful. As a Nigerian citizen
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of the Rwanda was overtaken by Hutus; about 85% and 14% of Tutsi‚ A number of Hutus believed they were the superior race over the Tutsi. The Hutus considered the Tutsi as “inhuman” and wanted to get rid of number of Tutsis (Genocide in Rwanda. (n.d.). Retrieved October 5‚ 2015.) Paul Rwanda took over 1268 Tutsi refugees over the three month period of the civil war. But along with the number of refugees he did protect over one million Tutsis and rebels
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started with the Rwandan Civil War which was fought between the Hutu regime and the Rwandan Patriotic Front. The Hutu Power claimed that the Tutsi people intended to enslave the Hutu people. This started periodic killings of the Tutsi people. In 1994‚ after the assassination of Habyarimana‚ things escalated very violently. Hutus began mass killings of the Tutsi people and even their own Hutu people that they considered traitors. Several members of the Hutu Power were also high up in the government
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Hotel Rwanda Hotel Rwanda takes place in the years to1994‚ during the horrific genocide by the Hutus to hundreds of thousands of Tutsis. In Rwanda‚ you were a Tutsi or a Hutu and intense violence and hatred toward the Tutsi was encouraged and supported through the radio. Fighting‚ killing and opposition had been going on for several years‚ and when a new president signs a peace treaty to put the insane turbulence to an end‚ he is murdered. Paul Rusesabagina is a hotel manager at the nicest and
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