Ap Human Geography Rwanda

War never changes, it will always be around for as long as we are here, with it, it brings genocide. Every day we are in a constant battle with each other, whether it be at home or across the oceans. We have invented weapons solely to cause mass destruction across entire continents. This has led to limitations being placed on warfare, but sometimes it's not enough. "We have to protect our Earth, so our children and grandchildren will never suffer like that"

In the era of colonialism, European authorities all cynically insisted that they acted to promote such higher commitments entitled the "white man's burden,” a vital aspect claimed to be in their national interest and of prodigious importance. Yet when these global and transnational forces increasingly usurp the power of states, in order to determine their own fiscal policies, newfangled ideologies spread, and eventually rivals spur in conflict and tragedies befall. Such a case was found in the dramatic fallout of the Rwandan Genocide. The root of the carnage is entwined in the European colonialism in Rwanda; where the hunger for power and land lied in Belgium colonist’s interest. Ultimately, upon their unwanted arrival, European colonists

In my opinion, dominant groups are usually the targeted group. Consequently, they behave by a positive reaction. On the other hand, the non-dominants are groups that become aware of the targeted groups, subsequently act in response sometimes with critical comments, emotional and attitudinal conduct. For instance, in Rwanda the Tutsi ethnic group is the dominant group because of their wealth, education and social opportunities. Meanwhile, the Hutu ethnic crowd is the non-dominant since they are in a social context underprivileged. As such the Hutu promote a rough hatred crusade into genocide. They felt that their slaughter campaign would reinstate and improve their social condition.

Between the 1870s and 1900, much of Africa was scavenged at the hands of Europeans, divvied up between Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain without much regard to the people who actually inhabited the continent [Fouberg et al, Iweriebor]. From this, Rwanda arose as an entity, as part of German East Africa, after the League of Nations mandate of Belgium following World War I. Rwanda is located inland on the African continent, just below the equator, and surrounded by Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda (as seen in the map on page 3).

Rwanda had 3 main ethnic groups: Tutsi ,Hutu and Twa. The Hutu were the biggest group in Rwanda and made up 85% of the the population. The Hutu started to drive the Tutsi out of Rwanda. Hutu extremists targeted members of the minority Tutsi community and any political opponents. In just 100 days over 800,00 people were

The UN should have definitely taken more action to prevent the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The UN has the resources and manpower but it seems that the UN is only motivated by monetary gain. Based on the reading, the UN stated “We will recommend to our governments not to intervene as the risks are high and all that is here are humans.” (Dallaire & Beardsley, 2003. p. 121) indicates that the members of the UN only take action if it’s in their best interest. In my opinion, the UN should disregard any gain and put human life at the top of their priorities. If they had done so during 1994, the civil war might not have become a genocide, saving the lives of

There is a division on the historical development of pre-colonial Rwanda. One side of the divide indicates an “ethnic” diversity based partially on occupational status – a patron/client relationship and also the ancestral lineage of Hutu and Tutsi. The other side of the divide indicates that “until written descriptions by the first European travelers, people identified themselves according to clan rather than ethnic affiliation, and that the description of so called ethnic groups was laid down by those travelers” (Sellström, Wohlgemuth, & Millwood, 1996).

The country of Rwanda has had a short and tragic history. Rwanda was heavily colonized by Europeans. Belgium was primarily in control of Rwanda for a long time. At around 1958-1959, decolonization of Europeans occurred. The large waves of decolonization led to the independence of Rwanda in 1962. This was the start of a long and brutal resentment of two groups known as the Hutu’s and Tutsi’s. The Hutu people were peasants for a long time, while the Tutsi people were worked in farms. Tutsi’s were more wealthy, had more power, and were the majority until mid-late 1959. A sudden uprising with Hutu people resulted in thousands of Tutsi’s forced into exile in the neighboring country, Uganda. The everlasting struggle for power in Rwanda seemed to be leaning toward the once poor, Hutu people. For years the

The refugee massacre that occurred in the years between 1994 and 1996 in Zaire demonstrates a worst-case-scenario of refugee camp militarization. It is by no means a typical case of refugee warriorism, however, it does exemplify an opportunity structure that fosters an environment conducive for militarization. The massacre of refugees in Zaire stems from the Rwandan genocide of 1994 which witnessed the deaths of 200,000 to 1 million ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu.2 The conflict ended in the victory of the ethnic- Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and the defeat of the ethnic-Hutu Forces Armées Rwandaises (FAR). Consequently, 1.72-2.1 million Hutu refugees fled the country into Burundi, Zaire, Tanzania, and Uganda.3 Dr. Emizet

Rwandans experienced periods of exile, internal displacement and refugee status since the closing years of Rwanda’s colonial rule under Belgium. Starting in 1959 and up until what could still be argued as on-going is a section of the Rwandan population not being able to living in their ancestral homeland. There are two significant period of Rwandan exile in terms of Rwanda’s current government and foreign policy. The first was the period of 1959 to 1962 when an estimated one million, mostly Tutsi, Rwandans were forced to become refugees throughout the Great Lakes region. Starting from 1959 and continued until 1994, Rwandans living abroad experienced the stigmatism that the international community was not going to solve their exiled status. Some of the children of these exiles in Uganda would later form in 1987, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF). It was this rebel group which initiated the Civil War, ended the 1994 genocide and afterward rule over Rwanda. Founder of the RPF and current Rwandan Senator Tito Rutaremara commented on how the international community seemed to accept and ignore the human right’s abuse of the forced exiled of himself and his fellow Rwandans. By 1967, many in the Ugandan refugee camps for Rwandans had given up on the United Nations or other international institution to help resettle them in Rwanda. The United Nations even became a pun in a joke for when you expect someone to perform a job for you, but you realize that they were not seriously going

Rawanda is a country full of paradoxes, difficult for outsiders to understand what is really going on there. While hearing ‘’Rwanda’’ the first thing came into many people’s mind is Genocide, massacre, poverty, corruption, and violence. Post-genocide Rawanda have been receiving considerable amount of funds from international community despite being a dictatorship along with miserable human rights record and instability in region. In today’s world Rwanda is facing one of the most serious problems with its political governance. Due to dictatorship there is little attention on vast majority and day by day people are getting poorer and less aware of their rights. Current regime is having full control over people and space. According to a research by commonwealth human Rights initiative ‘’Rwanda is an army with a state, rather than a state with an army’’. And that has led this country to witness war crimes and crimes against humanity which have become a source of instability in the region. In order to understand the core problems existing in Rawanda and how international community is tolerating it by giving them funds without bringing any change on the political governance of Rwanda, this paper describes the regime’s practices. Thus, this paper will analyze the ways in which it dealt with external and internal voices, strategies it design to silence people, and its information management as well as some recommendations on the

In December 2015, the President accepted an offer from People’s Republic of China (PRC) of military training assistance intended to support troops engaged in peacekeeping operations (PKO) and counterterrorism efforts in Africa. Given that Rwanda ranks fifth in the world, among United Nations PKO troop contributing countries, and also engaged in counterterrorism efforts in the world, Rwanda will inevitably benefit from this Chinese assistance package. Therefore, on 22 November 2017, the National Defence Council will meet to review strategies to engage the PRC on training assistance and military to military relations. The council will also assess China’s assistance and identify areas that China could support Rwanda Defence Force (RDF). Key

Prior to colonial era, Rwanda had larger population of Hutus compared to Tutsis and Twa. Rwanda as a country was divided into three ethnic groups i.e. Hutu (approximately about 85%), Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%) (United Nations). Although, Tutsis were the minorities, they belonged to the higher strata compared to the other ethnic groups; Tutsis were privileged and had power and control over the Hutus and Twas. “Hutus were formerly bound to their Tutsi patrons via client ship” (Sinema, 2012). When Rwanda was colonized by Germany followed by Belgium, they favored Tutsis as they represented the upper class prior to the colonization. These created a social system like feudal system where there was a power difference between the Hutus and the Tutsis. Tutsis were considered as lord and the Hutus on the other hand, were considered as peasants. As a consequence, this created an ethic tension between the Hutus and the Tutsis and created a system more like apartheid. Nonetheless, they managed to co exist in Rwanda until they were decolonized. Although there is no social distinction between the Hutus and the Tutsis, the conflict between these tribes increased tremendously after the independence from Belgian that led to mass murder and ethnic cleansing of the Tutsi by the Hutu.

Genocide has been a problem to all countries for decades causing death to thousand of families, ethnic groups giving them no way out of this tratric events. Rwanda was a well known country to have suffer through this tragic events, giving only pain and suffering to people in Rwanda. Genocide mostly comes from a group of people that tend to make a message and to cause fear and those groups were called the Hutu and Tutsis. And why it happen is a question we wonder, well it all happen during a civil war of Rwanda in 1990 a conflict between the Hutu and Tutsis. The Tutsis were were mostly refugees that were later murdered by the Hutu, must of these mass murders were done by the belief of one ethnic group being better than the other regarding they have the same religion and traditions.

The FDI was done in one of the leading companies in solar power industry in Rwanda. The current conditions in Rwanda in regard to power industry are advantageous for FDI. Over the past years total production of electricity has been on the increase so as to meet the demands of the increasing middle-class in the East Africa countries. Consequently the demand of the electricity is far from being met even with the increase from past to the current year. The vision of this undertaking, Mesh Power, is to convey both ecological and social effects to all groups without power vitality. Work Power has its own sunlight based fueled Nano grids and keen metering frameworks, and the group continues attempting to enhance their innovation, so as to give moderate power to groups, including 1.2 million individuals who have no entrance to power. This market of the sun based off-framework advertise is evaluated to be worth of 12 billion pounds by the year 2030. Currently, electricity demand exceeds supply.