Analysis Of Hotel Rwanda

While writing an essay about the 1994 genocide in Rwanda utilizing writings from the play Maria Kizito and the script from the motion picture Hotel Rwanda I found more data by writers who wrote journals and articles that explained particular areas I had interest in. These journals and articles discuss with more detail Rwanda’s History, the history of the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes, Colonialism as the catalyst for genocide in Rwanda. The area this paper will focus on is the role of the media during that time. My goal in this paper is to expand what I read from the course about Genocide in Rwanda into a larger discussion about how media and more specifically radio played a significanant role in inciting violence against the Tutsi. To achieve this goal, I have organized my paper into three main sections beginning with a brief synopsis of the event, the origin of the Tutsi and Hutu tribes and the role of European Colonialism played as the root cause of their social indifference. In conclusion, the third area which talks about the role of media and how it was use to induce a violent eruption of mass killings against the nation 's minority, the Tutsi which explains the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Rwanda is located in East Africa. Rwanda has a population of 12 million people and only 23% of this population has access to the electric grid. Rwanda boarders with Burundi in the south, Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Tanzania in the East and Uganda in the North. It is a small, densely populated country, with an area of 3/4 of the Netherlands. Rwanda belongs to the 20 poorest countries in the world. However, economic growth was high in recent years, and the prospects for further development are good (World Bank, 2015).

On 6 April 1994, the worlds attention was shifted to the small, nation of Rwanda in africa. In the time following of the assassination of President Habyarimana, the ethnic Hutu majority began a deliberate the hutu extremist were known as R.P.F., carefully planned to eradicate the Tutsi population in any means necessary. When Rwanda gained independence, the Hutu majority took over of the political bodies and held a grudge against the tutsi minority. The Tutsi were for the most part had more money and were better educated. For this reason they were seen as spoiled so the hutus wanted what they had and example of class separation. After the R.P.F. took over the Rwandan government, they placed Tutsis in all the head positions of leadership. Starting in the late nineteen eighties , there were terrible massacres of the Tutsis people. A system of identification cards was put in place in to “ethnicity.” In 1990, a Tutsi majority rebel group, invaded Rwanda from Uganda, bringing more tension. The belgians coined the nickname “inyenzi”, meaning “cockroaches.” Racial slurs, hate media and negative propaganda escalated tensions to the point where political parties were forming militias and practically waiting for something to light the fuse. The flame that lit that fuse, came form the assassination of Rwandan long time favorite president, Juvenal Habyarimana. The identity of the person or persons that shot the rocket that hit his plane as it was landing is a mystery that has never

It is known that after coming back from wars, the commonality would be that many become traumatized. For Leroy Sievers, the only war that ever gave him nightmares was the genocide of Rwanda. He describes his experience in great detail of how the entire area reeked of death and how a stranger died at his feet, the last thing he saw was his face. He explains how many, after watching Hotel Rwanda, were distraught, asking the questions of why no one did anything to stop it or why they had not heard about it before. His reply was merely that there was broadcasts that occurred that they had just not paid any attention to. Most of this article is describing the horrors that he witnessed in much detail. He witnesses people literally dropping dead.

Lives will continue to be lost until treaties are established and international law is strengthened to apply to each and every country. Activists and protesters deserve fair and just treatment, and officials need to be monitored appropriately. The UN has officiated more than 560 treaties, and has an International Court of Justice to carry out the enforcement of human rights (UN). Civil action must be taken, and on a higher level than previous years. Growing discipline for all nations and setting the bar higher for everyone will slowly but surely regulate behavior and settle international relations. In an article from The Hindu, written by Nehginpao Kipgen, an ethnic cleansing is reported taking place in Myanmar during 2017. The government felt they had the power to drive 700,000 Rohingya muslims out of the country, and their actions were depicted as “crimes against humanity” by the UN (Kipgen). The ultimate solution was brought upon by the United Nations security council, and scrutinized the government by ordering them to resolve their wrongdoings and check their authority. This source again shows how international organizations have the power to stop unjust fatalities and unproportional governmental

On the 7th of April 1994, Rwanda experienced the first signs of genocide when the Hutu's used radio signals to send out. hate messages such as “cockroaches”, and “rats”, towards Tutsis.1 Hutus started to send radio signals throughout Rwanda because a day earlier, Rwandan President Juvenal Habyairmana’s private plane was shot down. Since Habyairmana was a Hutu and the perpetrators of his death were unknown, this allowed the Hutus to blame this horrific crime on the Tutsis. After 100 days of Habyairmana’s death, almost one million Tutsis were killed.2 The mass killings in Rwanda were known as the Rwandan genocide. The blame for the Rwandan genocide should not only be placed upon the Hutus, but the Belgian colonists should be blamed for the genocide; due to their acts of colonizing Rwanda in 1918 to improve imperialism, which caused the death of more than one million Tutsis.3

In Hotel Rwanda, their are two cultures who do not getting along, the Hutu and Tutsi. The Hutu feel indignation towards the Tutsi because years ago they were given special privileges and power based on their skin tone, nose width, and height. The Hutu anger started to brew, and cause people to bring about the idea of riots. The Hutus then started a genocide against the Tutsis because of the special treatment they had been given years ago.

The radio was supported by many wealthy people which included businessmen, government and many other wealthy people who were convinced that it was for the best. The radio stations were a form of manipulation it was a way to gain control of the situation it was used to get people to think that the Tutsi people were dangerous. According to (Early Warning) “The early warning signs” there were a few warning signs about the genocide. The warning signs began in 1994 when General Romeo Dallaire who was a commander of the U.N Assistance mission of Rwanda mentioned to the department of the U.N that there were plans that the Hutus people wanted to destroy the Tutsis community and race.

In 1994, Rwanda’s population was made up of three ethnic groups, the Hutus, the Tutsi, and the Twas. Hutu extremists blamed the Tutsi for their country’s social, economic, and political problems. Because of this, The Hutu extremists decided to kill the Tutsi and the Hutus who were opposed to the extremists. “In the early 1990s, hutu extremists within Rwanda’s political elite blamed the entire Tutsi minority population for the country’s increasing social, economic, and political pressures.” This shows that human rights are being violated because one ethnic group decided to blame a minority population for their country’s growing problems. The extremists decided they wanted control back and because of this they felt it was justified to kill as

Later that year the Security Council also established the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) to support the peace process but limited their involvement to peacekeeping, humanitarian assistance, and general support.[iv] Despite these attempts to create peace and ease rising tensions in the region, plans to exterminate Tutsis and moderate Hutus were already being created by the Hutu extremists and Interahamwe (militia), literally meaning “Those Who Attack Together.” Ultimately on April 6, 1994, following the plane crash killing the Presidents of Burundi and Rwanda, violence erupted across Rwanda as Hutus began to massacre Tutsis. Again the radio was instrumental in the coordination of attacks and encouraged Hutus to massacre Tutsis. RTLMC would often use coded language to communicate messages such as “go to work” which “everyone knew [that] meant get your machete and kill Tutsis.”[v] The radio that once featured pop music, disc jockeys, and phone-ins became a “powerful medium” in motivating Hutus to kill their fellow man. Despite efforts from the Belgian ambassador to shut down the broadcasts, they

Slowly, France replaced Belgium as the dominant power in Rwanda and in October 1990 an organization of Tutsi refugees, called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded Rwanda. The United States failed to see the obvious clues leading up to the Rwandan genocide; death squads had been exposed in October 1992, two years before the official genocide occurred. “A top ideologue of the MRND was known to have given a speech in November 1992 calling for genocide. In August 1993 a UN investigator warned of the threat of ethnic killing in Rwanda…” (48). The saddest part, perhaps, was the new radio system that was created by a few members of Habyarimana’s inner circle, the radio station was called RTLM and was used solely to whip up ethnic hatred about the Tutsi. Evidence was given to the U.S ambassador and the secretary general’s special representative

Propaganda for the Rwanda Genocide began when the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) invaded Rwanda in 1990. Thus, the Hutu Power Movement began. A group of government officers and officials began a magazine called “Kangura”, which spread anti-Tutsi propaganda. The Hutu Ten Commandments, which were published in the Kangura, was an example of racist guidelines for the Hutus if they ever came into contact with a Tutsi. By 1990, the Rwandan army began arming its civilians with swords and clubs under the pretense of self defense. These weapons became the main tools used in the genocide. After the ceasefire between the Rwanda government and the RPF in 1992, Hutu extremists in the Rwandan government and the army began to plot against the President in fear of allowing the Tutsis to participate in governmental issues. The extremists began a new radios station named “Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC), which broadcasted racist propaganda against Tutsis. Hutu extremist leaders also staged or reported false events to convince the Hutu population that the Tutsis were accomplices of the RPF. (Propaganda and Practice) The Holocaust, on the other hand, utilized many more ways of propaganda.

Hotel Rwanda Essay In the movie “Hotel Rwanda”, The Rwandan genocide is described through the experiences of George Rutaganda, Colonel Oliver, and Paul Rusesabagina. Their experiences explain the horrors of the genocide which began on April, 1994. Before the genocide, the Belgians controlled Rwanda and they felt that the Tutsis were superior towards the Hutus, so they treated the Tutsis much better by giving them better jobs and treated them with more respect. When the Belgians left Rwanda in 1962, Rwanda and Burundi became two separate countries, and the Tutsis were forced to flee.

Genocide is “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, ethnic, political, or cultural group”. In Rwanda for example, the Hutu-led government embraced a new program that called for the country’s Hutu people to murder anyone that was a Tutsi (Gourevitch, 6). This new policy of one ethnic group (Hutu) that was called upon to murder another ethnic group (Tutsi) occurred during April through June of 1994 and resulted in the genocide of approximately 800,000 innocent people that even included women and children of all ages. In this paper I will first analyze the origins/historical context regarding the discontent amongst the Hutu and Tutsi people as well as the historical context as to why major players in the international

In the past two years, a genocide has been going on in Myanmar that little people around the world know about. The victims that have been affected by this mass murder are the Rohingya Muslims, who originated from the subcontinent of India and are a minority group that makes up 5% of the country’s population. Today, the physical and emotional abuse endured by the Rohingya Muslims prevails a prominent issue in the Middle East. Over in Burma, many of the Muslims are murdered, beaten, or attacked by various religious groups, while government officials either stand and watch or occasionally help.