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    when this happened the Huts blamed the Tutsi and the Tutsi were getting punished and killed for this reason. The word “genocide” is when a specific amount of people are being targeted to kill. This word best describes what happened to all those people in Rwanda. What happened in Rwanda is something that everyone should know about because nothing like all the crimes done in Rwanda should ever happen again. II. Tutsis were slaughtered where militias,FAR(Rwandan Armed Forces),and the presidential guard

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    The two ethnic groups that were include in the Rwanda Genocide was the Tutsis and Hutus. The Tutsis were the minority population in Rwanda, but they held all the positions of authority. On the other hand, the Hutu made up around 85% of Rwanda’s population, but held no political power, they were denied higher education and land ownership. The size of the nose and the color of the eyes were the factors that determined whether a person was Hutu or Tutsi. The Tutsis disapprove of the colonial rule of

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    Which key factors and events led to the Rwandan Genocide of 1944? Daniel Castro Mrs. Hartigan World History Honors Period 3 Sunday, May 27 2018 Word Count: Introduction The Rwandan Genocide was a genocide against the Tutsis by the Hutus in 1994 taking place in Rwanda. This event like any other did not just happen randomly and had many factors involved for it to have happened. Factors such as certain leaders, the nature of state of Rwanda, attitude of the community, economy war, and many

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    traced to the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. In response to violence carried out by exiled Rwandan Hutu genocidaires; Rwandan and Ugandan force invaded the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1996” (Responsibility to Protect). What the world and America should have done to prevent the DR-Congo conflict is intervene in the Rwandan genocide; while they had a chance because Congo became the precursor of the Rwandan genocide. The Rwandan genocide had a major impact on the conflict occurring

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    3/15/18 Rwanda Genocide No matter which testimony, each survivor has an amazing story. What they went through was absolutely terrifying. To see family members get killed right in front of your face would be horrifying. Then they somehow had to keep things together while they escaped. Nobody saw coming what was going to happen in April of 1994 to July of 1994, the genocide in Rwanda caused the deaths of almost 1,000,000 Tutsi people and displaced

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    out of control. It’s amazing how ignorant and stubborn the human race can be. This is exactly the response of many nations when it comes to genocide. Genocide is the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group. Two of the most recent genocides in history are the genocide of Rwanda and the genocide of Cambodia. The genocide of Cambodia started on the year of 1975 and ended on 1979. This is considered the Khmer Pogue period, where Pol Pot , Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary

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    The second stage of genocide is symbolism and this one not only fits the problem of Rwanda genocide it also fits with how Nazi Germany treated the Jews in an inhuman manner for example In the Jewish holocaust book by Adam jones he stated that “the Jews were forced to where a yellow star all the time so the Nazi government can identify whose German loyal to the third Reich and who’s a Jew which Hitler proclaimed to be enemies of the state”(Jones) and compared to Rwanda when president Habyarimana came

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    the events occurring in Rwanda, the international community, namely the United States and the United Nations, remained unresponsive, allowing the genocide to proceed unabated. In late April 1994, amid urgent calls for an increase of forces, the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 912, which, despite their stated, ‘deep concern’ for the Tutsi people, withdrew 90% of UN troops from Rwanda, leaving only 270 soldiers in the country to protect civilians from genocide. NSA declassified documents

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    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

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    The Genocide in Rwanda: Who is to Blame? By Maria Chiara Billones Lucatello February 3, 2010 International Relations Mr. Conzemius “A small boy of 11 years, was curled up in a ball of fresh flesh and blood, in his eyes was a glance of lost hope, abandonment, and defeat. He was without vision; A little girl at nine years of age, was pinned up against a tree…her legs apart, and she was covered in things even hell can’t imagine; excrement, urine and blood . . . in her mouth was cold fresh meat, cut

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