Rwandan Genocide

There are a lot of places in today’s world about where to start talking in regards of inequality. What are the causes and affects it? Why does it in African societies today if we are no longer in slavery? Some people will argue that it is impossible to know why inequality exists and the same people would just accept that they are part of the losing end of the stick. They live their lives stuck with no progression. Although everything has a solution, people are not able to solve all problems and mankind

Freedom in the world has changed overtime and can be described as many different things. Freedom can be controlled by the government but it can also be overthrown. In the Enlightenment, the ninety five percent, who were poor, created The Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. The ninety-five percent were basically trying to say that if America could overtake the government then they could. Freedomhouse.org, explains how the free the world is and how overtime government and power can change and

European empires tried to imperialize the groups that they thought less of it lead to a time of dictatorship. It caused legacies of genocide, assimilation, slavery, homogenization and extinction of cultures. These legacies would leave cultures a mess that they had to put back together by themselves. In Rwanda, when the belgians left it started a war that turned into mass genocide. When the European empires imperialized canada, they ended up assimilating the Aboriginal groups. Lastly, as the British came

In this case, the Rwandan genocide which happened in 1990, 54 years after the Holocaust, approximately murdered 800,000 people in 100 days. The genocide all started because the president at this time was a Hutu and was shot down from his airplane. As a result, the group Hutu thought that the other group Tutsi had planned it all out.

Tutsis were more favored to be educated, which had made Hutus felt under appreciated, as if they were really treated like servants. (Rwanda Genocide) However, the population of Hutus has always outnumbered the Tutsis, where it accounts 80 percent of the Hutus, 19 percent of Tutsis, and only 1 percent of Twa and Pygmy, the original inhabitants of Rwanda. (Rwanda genocide: 100 days of slaughter, 2014) Towards the end of Belgium’s ruling, the Hutus were given more authority from the Belgians. Since the majority

together by major events that have let to the Burundi and Rwanda Genocides. But there’s more to just the Genocides than what meets the eye. In order to understand what happened in the Rwanda genocide I must talk about Burundi and the Belgian rule. Hutu and Tutsi have lived in the same area for centuries and share the same language, religions, and even clan systems. Hutu and Tutsi have also intermarried for years before these genocides even occurred. For 60 years Burundi was under colonial rule of

crimes such as genocide and torture. These crimes are often under the constant fire of debate as scholars try to reason as to why they occur. However, the debates of genocide and torture are not exclusively attributed to the fact that they occur, but also, as to why people participate in these acts to begin with. Contrary to popular belief the majority of participants in state-sponsored violence are often not radical extremists, but rather, ordinary people. In instances, such as the genocide in Rwanda

and Atheism among other very small religions. Rwanda is also very diverse when it comes to languages the most common languages spoken is Rwanda, properly known as Kinyarwanda, English, and French. Rwanda a Bantu language is spoken by most all Rwandans. English and French have traditionally been spoken by only a small percent of the population, even though English was named in Rwanda as the language of educational instruction in 2008. Swahili also spoken in the country is still considered the

However, while most of the people who Milgram tested obeyed power, they also showed signs of extreme personal tension. This elucidates their humanity, individuality and the possibility for defiance. Administering the shocks caused their stress to reach “extremes rarely seen in sociophysical laboratory experiments” (137). They would “sweat, tremble, stutter, bite their lips”, have “nervous laughter” (137). Three subjects even had “full-blown, uncontrollable seizures” (137). They did not want to

HISTORY OF RWANDA AND THE GENOCIDE It is believed that the Hutu and the Tutsi were originally one community who shared some value culture and even religion until the colonialist announced their arrival. Rwanda has experienced a disturbing and prolonged cycle of violent conflict since 1959. The conflict which has been characteristically political and socio-economic in nature has played out mainly on the basis of ethnicity and regionalism. It was first German and Belgium colonialism that created