1994 Rwanda Genocide

Genocide In Rwanda What is Genocide? Genocide is violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group. Genocide goes very much unnoticed in United States because we rarely go through it in our free country but it is very important that we always take time to reflect on so we will not go through this. Us all around the world should work hard for world peace and combat racism and prejudice.

The massacres in Rwanda were people from opposing groups fighting against one another; a civil war had taken place in Rwanda between 1990 and 1993 when the RPF invaded in 1990 where 50000 people were killed throughout the civil war. The civil war was conflict between the government of President Juvénal Habyarimana and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front. The RPF consisted of Tutsi’s in Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania. The Arusha Accords (peace agreement) signed in Arusha Tanzania on August 4th 1993, by the government of Rwanda and the RPF put an end to the civil war which took place over 3 years of fighting between the Rwandan government and the RPF. However a civil war is not targeted at a specific group therefore Rwanda cannot have had a civil war in 1994 because the killings in Rwanda had been targeted and at a specific group.

I am deeply honored to be a part of this event. I speak on behalf of the international student committee of Pune. On this day, we stand with the people of Rwanda to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. Around one million people were slaughtered during the violence: which was a culmination of longstanding ethnic tensions between the minority Tutsi and majority Hutu people. Two decades on, survivors and perpetrators are still healing from the trauma left by the genocide.

Macbeth’s calm and collected attitude after the news of Banquo’s murder is unnerving and frightening, especially after seeing how affected he had been at the murder of King Duncan. When killing King Duncan, Macbeth was thoughtless and anxious, but when planned the murder of Banquo Macbeth was cool minded and collected. Macbeth was once a trustworthy man, but now is a disrespectful and violent king. Furthermore, after Banquo’s murder, his body is shown no respect as “Safe in a ditch he bides,/With twenty trenchèd gashes on his head” (Shakespeare 101). Banquo’s violent death and Macbeth’s reaction of indifference towards Banquo murder displays how far he’s fallen into the

THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE. Genocides which refers to the deliberate killing of a large group of people, on the basis of their ethnic group, is one of the evil practice that have been taking place in some parts of the world. In 1994, Rwanda which is a small country located in the central region of Africa, experienced genocide which killed about one million of people, others were left injured whereas others were forced to be refugees. There are many factors that contributed to genocide, and these includes ethnical or tribal hatred, failure of the ruling government and the inequality treatment of the Hutus and Tutsis. Thus, in this essay I will outline how these factors led to genocide and what efforts were made to bring about peace

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Also, it lost the trust from the public because of being unfair and killing innocent

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The group derides the people that are considered weak, including the men who did not get involved in the execution as well as women. This reveals that Okonkwo goes on the trip because he does not want to appear effeminate and be laughed at, which suggests he values his reputation greatly. Later in the scene, Okonkwo looks away when a man attacks Ikemefuna, but when Ikemefuna cries for help, Okonkwo slaughters him. This conveys Okonkwo’s internal struggle, which reveals the complexity of his character. Okonkwo is more than just a violent and cold-blooded character.

From a previous population of 300,000, there were 50,000 people left and half of these were displaced. Government officials, soldiers, and militia who participated in the genocide fled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to fear of being killed. With the support of the government in the Congo they planned to continue killing Tutsis and to de-stabilize the new government in Rwanda. However, their plan failed. The Rwandan refugees were experiencing horrible conditions in the refugee camps as well.

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The Rwandan genocide was a mass slaughter of the Tutsi population that lasted 100 days from the 7th of April to the 15th of July in 1994. Although the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda existed at the time, Canada and the international community still failed to help Rwanda as a whole, as individual countries, and by not doing what they could to aid Roméo Dallaire. As an international community as a whole, there was far more that could have been done to help Rwanda through the United Nations and as individual countries. UNAMIR, or United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda, was made to keep peace in Rwanda and started a year before the genocide occurred.

Since the meaning of the word represents the innumerable elimination of groups of people for a significant discrimination or hate, regarding race, ethnicity, religion, cultural or national group. Organizations of evangelical Christian churches signed a petition letter to President George W. Bush, who made a call to double the international troops. Others famous actors, such as George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger, from United States made donations, collected funds for this country.

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