The Genocide In Europe

Rwanda was taken over by the Belgians causing the Hutus and Tutsis to not get along which caused genocide. “Facing a revolution instigated by the Hutu, the Belgians let the Hutus, who constituted the majority of Rwanda 's population, be in charge of the new government. This upset the Tutsi. The animosity between the two groups continued for decades.” Both clans were upset and started Genocide in Rwanda. The causes of their mass casualties resolved in a never ending dispute between the two clans.

Eventually, the Hutus were angered by the control the Tutsis were given. The Hutus began killing all Tutsis, this lasted for over 2 months. Between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people were killed. According to Exploring Globalization over 99% of children witnessed violence. European involvement and imperialism caused the genocide due the favouring of the more “European,” like Tutsis.

Before the Holocaust there was no previous rivalry between the Jews and Germans. In the Rwandan genocide, the rivalry between the Hutu and the Tutsi had began many years earlier. The way the people were killed were different in each genocide. In the Holocaust, Jews were sent to concentration camps. There was no real privacy or sanitation in theses camps. Prisoners would wash themselves with dirty water, without soap and wore the same clothes for weeks or even months. Then they were sent to death camps. Many of them were then sent to the “shower rooms” and were gassed. In Rwanda, the Hutus didn’t torture the Tutsis before killing them, they just killed them with guns and knives.

Genocide is the destruction of an ethnic, racial, or religious group. The most famous genocide, conducted by the Germans, is the extermination of the Jewish population known as the Holocaust. There are other genocides such as the Armenian or Darfur genocide, but the Holocaust is the one talked about and studied the most around the world today. Museums exist in Washington D.C, Los Angeles, and parts of Europe that focus primarily on this dark time in history. Vast amounts of books, movies, and documents concentrate on the Holocaust. Why is this chapter, between 1939 and 1945, discussed and examined? The answer lies within people who experienced the Holocaust such as Elie Wiesel, Jay Frankston, and Franks Shatz. These men have gone through hell and back, but they believe in one thing. That is, the notion of never again. The goal is to educate future generations on what really happened, so history does not repeat itself. Never again should people of any race, religion, or ethnicity, go through the horrific past of the Holocaust. In their writing, Wiesel, Frankston, and Shatz do a great job using pathos, logos, and ethos to convey their message of never again for future generations.

Hated has always been part of human nature, it is an inevitable emotion that can consumes the souls of men. The genocide in Ukraine during the early 1900s caused incredible suffering. Referred to as Holodomor which translates to killing by hunger, the Ukrainian starvation was a man made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Ukraine and the traditional Cossack territories starved to death due to Stalin’s government seizing of crops resulting in the countries denial of the genocide and even cannibalism.

At its roots, the Rwandan genocide was caused by colonization. Belgium had imperialized the nation after WWI and ruled through its kings, selecting the Tutsis ethnic group to lead. The decision to give the Tutsis power was based off the fact that they were more “white looking” with their lighter skin and long noses, which, in the eyes of the European string-pullers, meant they were better suited to ruling. It was also speculated that the Tutsis could be the descendants of a lost Christian tribe, and thus belonged to the “superior” bloodline. When the Belgian colonists settled in 1916, they assigned race cards to distinguish the Hutu from the Tutsis. Despite being the minority, comprising only 15% of the population, the Tutsis held most of the wealth. Tension between the two groups rose, with animosity becoming rampant. In 1962, Rwanda was granted independence from Belgium, and the Hutu regained

The Hutus would threaten and torture the Tutsis before they would killed them with machetes or other knives. When the Hutus would break into houses and attacked families, they would feel no remorse about killing them or taking their life. In Night, the Germans would beat and torture the Jews for no reason or when they did nothing wrong. If a Jew did not follow an order that a German gave him, he would be severely punished or even killed. The Germans felt to guilt about hurting the Jews and thought that they actually deserved the treatment they were receiving. The German soldiers and the Hutus felt no sympathy for the Jews or the Tutsis. They felt that they were doing what was right and did not feel guilty with the way they were treating them.

In between 1930 and 1945, an event took place that changed the world in many ways. The Holocaust was a genocide that consisted of the decimation of one single race, the Jews. This solemn event is very similar (and also quite different) to another event that took place only four thousand miles away. Like the Holocaust, this event is was a genocide and it took place at Rwanda in 1994. This genocide was between the Hutus and Tutsis. These two groups have a long background with each other that consisted of civil wars, switches in power and superiority, and tension. It began when the Europeans put the Tutsis in a superior position because they were the ones that closely resembled them, the Europeans, in physical appearance. It was the death of

On April 6, 1994, Hutus began a mass slaughtering of the Tutsis in the African country of Rwanda. This mass slaughtering was labeled as genocide: the deliberate obliteration of an ethnic, racial, religious, or political group. The Rwandan genocide lasted 100 days while other countries stood idly by and watched the brutal killings continue. Accusations from editorials and radio broadcasts claimed the Tutsis wanted to establish a monarchy with Hutu slaves. After years of ethnic tension, the Hutu were again angered and began distributing racial propaganda, dehumanizing the Tutsis by including depictions of them as cockroaches. Many years prior to the Rwandan genocide, a similar deliberate extinction occurred. Between 1933 and 1945, members of the Nazi party killed over six million Jews in what is known as the Holocaust. The genocide started with the Treaty of Versailles, which caused Germany to pay monetary compensations to the other nations as war

Bang!Boom! The Hutus entered Tutsis homes and started to kill using machetes, guns and their hands. They killed the young, old, disabled, it didn’t matter. On the night of April 7th,1994 the elimination of the Tutsi race began.The Hutu and Tutsis did not live in perfect harmony before the invasion of Europeans. Major problems did not occur until after colonialism was over. When the Europeans settled down, they divided Hutus and Tutsis by their physical traits. Tutsis were favored by the Europeans causing hatred from Hutus. With their division amongst different races, European colonialism put Rwanda on the road to genocide.The mass murder of millions of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the Rwandan Genocide was driven by the imperialistic motives of the Belgian government.

Have you ever faced an atrocity like war? Can we as a generation of young educated and free people be trusted to comprehend the magnitude of events such as the holocaust? Although we are reminded year after year of what occurred, and told of the horrors that took place we will never be able to actually experience them. Given that we can’t experience it how are we to fully digest it? Without having lived these events, the knowledge we receive is second hand in a sense. We don’t process it in the same way as those who were actually there. It’s a tricky subject, but it needs to be addressed. The holocaust is a topic we should continue to discuss. In continuing to have conversations about the holocaust we are taking preventative measures. As

Genocide is a very complex item to address. But to deeply and successfully address such a topic, it is a must to look deeper than the actions that have been displayed. But to understand the motives of genocide, one must know the correct definition of genocide. “Genocide,” a term used to describe violence against members of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group…” (What is...). Now fully understanding what genocide is, it will be easier to understand what motivates individuals in the past, present, and future to attempt genocide. A lot of questions have been made on what the motivation is of genocide. It is actually quite simple when thought about. The most common motivations are convenience, revenge, simple fear, and fear of pollution. Although there have been many different genocides in the world, it seems as if the motives in sequential order are convenience, revenge, fear of pollution, and simple fear. There are a large number of people who would like to say that mass genocides are okay. They would like to say that the killing of numerous amounts of people helps keep the world safe from over population and also helps keep people afraid of their superiors. Although using genocide as a solution is a very harsh choice of action, it has helped keep populations of races down, and has also shown civilians what the power of their government is. The purpose

The Hutus and Tutsis were seen as two social castes divided based on material wealth. The two groups shared the same language, territory and religion. The Tutsi were meant to rule while the Hutus were to serve. On April 6, the genocide had begun and mass killing came along daily. Many view that the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana was the jumpstart of the genocide which lasted for 100 days. Through the harsh 100 days of the genocide nearly 800,000 lives were taken. The main reason behind the Hutus attack was to exterminate all the Tutsis because of the country's success to become independent from belgium in 1962. The Belgians were the first to actually divide and establish differences between the two groups. They racially segregated the

Genocide, a dire event, has been recurring time and time again throughout history. In the past, there was the Holocaust, where Hitler exterminated over six million Jews based on his anti-semitic views. Elie Wiesel, a Jewish author, has become a very influential man in educating the world of the true events of the Holocaust due to his involvement in the disaster. Presently, a genocide is occurring in the Darfur region of southern Sudan, in which according to Cheryl Goldmark, “a systematic slaughter of non-Arab residents at the the hands of Arab militiamen called Janjaweed” has been taking place since 2003. (1) Not only is genocide a tragic historical event, it also continuously occurs today.

According to the UN Genocide Convention, genocide falls under certain acts and those acts are killing members of a group, causing bodily or mental harm, preventing births, transferring children to other groups, and bringing physical destruction. The events that occurred in Burundi falls under this article of the UN Genocide Convention. These events led to the UN International Commission Inquiry ruling the 1993 mass killing of Tutsis a genocide. The number of killings that happened was a clear reason to label this event a genocide. The ethnic group Tutsis were targeted and they were harmed mentally and physically. Although it took ten years, the UN council finally declared the events from 1993 a genocide. Under customary international law,