Situation In Rwanda

After the atrocities of the Rwandan Genocide and the lack on international intervention, Rwandan was forced to rebuild itself from scratch. Rwanda is a small country located in central Africa. Its population is divided between two ethnic groups: the hutus and the tutsis. The roots of the Rwandan genocide date back to 1924 when Belgium first took over Rwanda, formally a part of Tanzania. The Belgians viewed Tutsi superior to the hutus. Many referred to this as Hamitic hypothesis. It was motivated mainly by the fact that Tutsi were taller and thinner than hutus. This lead to a major boost in Tutsi egos and mistreatment of the Hutus for decades. This angered the Hutus leading to a major conflict between the two ethnic groups.

Rwanda is a country located in the middle of the African continent. The two ethnic groups present in the country lived in peace under their monarch until the arrival of Europeans. The Belgians arrival into Rwandan is what split the two ethnic groups of the Tutsi and Hutus, making them identify themselves with ID cards. This caused tension between the two groups as the Belgians favored the ethnic Tutsi, and made them the head of the government. Decade’s later Hutu extremists would take over the government and have revenge on the Tutsi. The new government would send out broadcasts calling on Hutus to kill their friends and neighbors. The Rwandan genocide would become the worst genocide to ever happen in Africa and one of the worst in the world. Today Rwanda’s recovery is surprisingly fast with the help of multiple nations and organizations. Rwanda’s recovery is nothing short of a miracle and is an amazing story of a war between two peoples.

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).

The GDP per capita is the gross domestic product per person. This is the income of the country divided by the population. THE US has a higher GDP of 56,207,04$ as shown in table 1.This means that the United States economy is rising at that there is an increase in productivity .Rwanda has a low GDP per capita as shown in table 2 .this means that the economy of Rwanda isn’t efficient and this tells us that country is suffering from poverty and corrupted and inefficient government. The GDP per capita comparisons shows us that the US performance is higher

Abimbola, Olaifa and Danjibo Dominic. The 1994 Rwandan Conflict: Genocide or War? International Journal on World Peace. Vol XXX No. 3(2013). 31-54. Print.

The Rwanda revolution of 1959 was significant because it marked the shift in power between two ethic groups within Rwanda. The country was originally led by the Tutsis and was later given to the Hutus by their colonizers Belgium. The change in power between the Tutsis and the Hutus caused tensions within the country as both groups battled for power. These tensions led to uprisings and as a result led to the death of many Tutsis. The revolution of 1959 not only emphasized the exsiting tensions between the two ethnic groups but it as well showed the impact of Belgium’s influcences even after Rwanda gained independce in 1962.

For my individual essay I chose the country of Rwanda. I have chosen this country due to the fact I have a friend from this country so I have always been extremely interested in it. One of several things that have peaked my interest is the amount of war that has taken place there over the past many years. Also, the fact that the weather in Rwanda is beautiful almost year around except for some rainy seasons. It is also such a beautiful country with mountains, volcanos, and lots of vegetation. Rwanda has many similarities to the United States like their government, religion and judicial system. Although these things do not mirror the ones in the United States the do share very similar aspects.

Genocide is not a good thing to have in our world so I am going to talk about sometimes it has happened, How to fix it, and why the heck would someone start genocide.

After The 1994 Genocide of Rwanda the nation was in shambles. The genocide of 1994, believed the members of the country’s Hutu’s ethnic majority killed nearly 1 million minority Tutsis in a 100 day riot. However, Kagame and other political leaders began the slow process of rebuilding Rwanda. The 2000 presidential election of President Paul Kagame led the Country of Rwanda, toward a big success story. President Kagame is a public advocate and a human rights champion for a new model of foreign aid. President Kagame applies his strategic, tactical attitude to the environment, justice, and economics, but in a very specific way. Some examples; there is not a mango peel on the roads. He made the importation of plastic bags illegal, and the bags are not biodegradable, he not only wants the streets clean, Rwanda is an immaculate nation. Equally important, the country should not rely on worldwide contributions. This President believes poverty

The danger and threats of being a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, is difficult to understand without having experienced them. An example of these challenges was the situation Canadians serving the UN faced during the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). At times, over 400 Canadian soldiers would face some of the worst violence that could be imagined while taking part in international peace efforts to try and bring the African nation together.

Rwanda is a mountainous nation with a mild, humid climate (2-1). The nation is in the Great Lakes Region of Africa. Western Rwanda contains part of the mountains of the East African Rift while the eastern side falls into the central African savanna (2-3). As such, the people of Rwanda refer to their nation as “the land of a thousand hills (12-3).” The geographic divisions of Rwanda correspond to the nation’s 22 prefectures. A minister elected from one of Rwanda’s five main political parties heads each of these political divisions (14-200). Despite the apparent insignificance of this small country, the nation was the site of one of the modern age’s deadliest

Gun shots! Chanting killing songs! There are dead bodies everywhere. That’s what one would see if one took a trip to Rwanda in the year 1994. There was an enormous amount of people who were being killed in Rwanda. This broke out to be a civil war against their two major ethnic groups. The account of all of the killings became known as the Rwandan Genocide. Rwanda’s people were in great danger, and no one was there to help. The United Nations, which is a global organization with a mission to promote peace throughout the world, failed to help the people of this country. The UN failed to end the Rwandan Civil War by ignoring the warnings that there could be massive killings breaking out, also by decreasing the number of troops that were in Rwanda during the civil war, and sending the number of troops that were needed in Rwanda after the war ended.

Rawanda is a country full of paradoxes, difficult for outsiders to understand what is really happening there. While hearing ‘’Rwanda’’ the first thing came into our mind is Genocide, massacre, poverty, discrimination, 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. Rwanda is facing one of the most serious problems with its political governance. Due to dictatorship there is little attention on vast majority

Genocide refers to the “deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group.” The Rwandan Genocide began on the 7th April 1994 and ended in July 1994. It occurred as a result of the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana, a hutu, who lost his life in a plane crash. This sparked outrage across the country, where many Tutsis were attacked by extreme members of the Hutu national ethnic majority. As a consequence of this 800,000 people consisting of the Tutsis as well as Hutu moderates were slaughtered. It was one of the heaviest genocides that occurred in human history. The victims of this brutal attack were the Tutsis, while the perpetrators were the extreme hutu nationalists who took take control of the country.

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.