has never been released‚ 800‚000 is the most common figure and is the one quoted by human rights organizations. The conflict occurred as a result of long standing tensions between the 85% majority Hutu (meaning servant) population and 14% minority Tutsi (meaning rich in cattle) aristocracy as put in place by colonial Belgium. They had since been removed from power in the 1962 rebellion and since then had been seen as second class citizens. As a result of this‚ socio-ethnic tensions had been greatly
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government where the Tutsi; minority group of cattle herders had power over the Hutu; majority group of farmers. The Belgians did this not knowing the difference of Hutu and Tutsi‚ being they were just social classes and not races. This led to an oppressed majority and then an armed machete revolution from the Hutus that was the genocide. Any other country could have stepped in and stopped the Hutu uprising or the distribution of machetes‚ they could have given protection for Tutsi. There are so many
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country called Rwanda. In Rwanda there were two tribes called the Hutus and the Tutsis. The break out of the genocide was an effect of longstanding competition and rivalry between the Hutu people who had come to power during this rebellion and the Tutsi people who were being targeted in the genocide. The Hutu people were not always in power in Rwanda (Doc. 7). During the time of Belgium colonial power in Rwanda the Tutsis took over the land and held control over the Hutus. Once the colonial power left
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the book “Strength in what remains” by Tracy Kidder‚ the main protagonist named Deo was a man that faced many hurdles in his life. From escaping the Genocide in Rwanda and Burundi‚ which was because of the domestic racial dispute between Hutus and Tutsi (groups of ethnic people) to his time in New york. Deo faced insurmountable odds and opposition. Despite this set back‚ it seemed as if providence was on Deos side‚ granting him countless fortunes and blessings. Many different factors can be attributed
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Name: Name of Instructor: Subject: Date: Ethnic Conflict in Rwanda The 1994 genocide in Rwanda is‚ by all accounts‚ the worst war related disaster since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in World War II. In Rwanda‚ 800‚000 people died in less than one hundred days. As the well wishers of Europe and the United States turned a blind eye to what was happening in Rwanda‚ thousands of machete-wielding youths turned Rwanda into a mass grave. Although‚ the United Nations sent its peacekeepers
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portraying? This movie portrays the Rwandan society in Africa. The characters are attempting to find safe haven within the campus of a hotel called the Hotel des Mille Collines. The pressure holds between the Tutsi and the Hutu tribes. This war was being fought in the 90’s because the Tutsi people were the minority‚ and the Hutu people believed they were the reason behind the regions decline. 3. Who are the main characters in this film? Paul R. – Paul is the hotel manager and is in charge
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Lakes Region) were the first people to inhabit the area. During 1972‚ The Tutsi massacred between 100‚000 and 200‚000 Hutu. Tensions started between the 2 in the 1960’s after they both wanted control after independence. The cause of the genocide was not just the matter of the Tutsi attempting to wipe out the Hutu‚ it was also because of previous conflict between the 2‚ as the Tutsi trying to control the government.
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someone who follows his or her conscience in the face of difficulty. Lastly there is a character named George who has a very different view point about ongoing massacre‚ which gives him a lax conscience. He does not even think twice about killing the Tutsi people‚ or giving weapons to the Hutu army. A lax conscience is when a person does not employ a process of conscientious decision making‚ thereby not facing or thinking about the morality of actions that he or she performs. Also in this movie there
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genocidal mass slaughter that took place in 1994 in the East African state of Rwanda. The genocide was mainly an ethnic competition between the Tutsi and the Hutu. Night and Hotel Rwanda are similar in many different ways. The first similarity that was in the movie and the book is that there were mass killings. Not only did the Hutu people kill the Tutsi people but also the Nazis’ killed the Jews’. In the Holocaust‚ there were 5.59-5.86 million and in the Rwanda Genocide there were 500‚000 and 1
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Rwanda came under Belgian control. The Hutu and Tutsi‚ the two native groups of Rwanda‚ saw conflict between each other grow as “continued insecurity among Hutu and further bitterness toward capricious rule of Tutsi chiefs was advanced by the Belgian authorities” (WT‚ 65). Soon‚ Belgium implemented an indirect government ran by the native Tutsis‚ but‚ in return‚ created a hierarchical distinction between the natives of Rwanda. After many years of “Tutsi and Belgian authorities not introducing reforms
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