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Annotated Bibliography: Rwanda Genocide

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Rwandan Genocide: Annotated Bibliography
By James Verini Photographs by Gilles Peress, Magnum Photos PUBLISHED Thu Apr 03 16:04:00 EDT 2014. "Rwanda Genocide: In Rwanda, Reconciliation Is Hard Won." National Geographic. National Geographic Society, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.
Summary: This website has pictures, maps, and graphs. The information is factual and isn't someone's opinion. There are personal interviews to help give personal insight. It had 3 links of related content. It talked about how things were with the Rwandan people 20 years after the genocide. Evaluation: This source was written by Jame Verini and the copyright is in 2015. I thought it was a good resource because it gave good evidence of the information in a "to the fact" …show more content…

PBS, n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2016PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.
Summary: This source gives dated diaries that are linked to interviews. Other topics covered are the days of slaughter, ignored warning, readings, Somalia debacle and transcripts. Each of these topics have links that open up with more information. Evaluation: The copyright is 1995-2014 by the WGBH education foundation. Some of the links to scripts don't work. This is a useful source for the day by day happenings in Rwanda and what the international leaders commented about the event. The information is reliable, objective and the comments and thoughts of scripts are interesting. The goal of this site is to give a "vivid and revealing report on how the 1994 Rwanda genocide could have been prevented."
Reflection: This source gives good information for a report. This source is helpful because it covers many topics regarding Rwanda and the interviews help me to see how people were affected and feel. This would help shape my argument in a more personal and exact …show more content…

PBS, n.d. Web. 15 Mar. 2016.
Summary: This website told about why the genocide in Rwanda, Africa happened and who did the killing. Neighbors killed neighbors and family members were killed by other family members. It told about if anyone had tried to stop it and why it was so vicious and how it ended. Evaluation: This site had pictures and maps. The copyright is 2016. It was written by the BBC. The site had a lot of external site links. These external links didn't have anything to do with the Rwanda genocide. There was a video with disturbing images and some other links that led to things that dealt with the genocide. This website was reliable and useful but, it had limited information.
Reflection: This site had limited information. It had pictures and a lot of external websites. It was not a good source of information because the information was limited. The final reason why I didn't like it, was because it showed the ugliest parts of the genocide through disturbing

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