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what took place in Rwanda, but instead related it to the story of Paul Rusesabagina, the manager, who sheltered thousands of refugees in the Belgian-owned Mille Collines hotel in Kigali. Paul risk his life with his family only to protect and save the Tutsi refugees from the violent rebel troops in the city by keeping them in the hotel. The film allows us to analyse the situation that caused the conflict in Rwanda during those times which often referred to us evil, in the sense that it was not only on

with a lighter skin tone, tall, and smaller noses were labeled as Tutsis. While Belgium held power over Rwanda, they deemed the Tutsis as the superior race despite them being the minority race and gave them positions of power over the Hutus. However, on November 1959 the Hutus formed a rebellion and gained independence from Belgium. The dynamics of the hierarchy of privilege quickly changed as the Hutus were on the top and the Tutsis became the oppressed and many fled the country. Although the dreadful

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

months from April 1994 to June 1994, it was within these three months that an estimated 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in a systematic fashion. The mass killings were orchestrated by the Hutu controlled Rwandan government, shortly after Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, who happened to be a Hutu, died after his plane was shot down. This therefore angered Hutus because they believed that the Tutsis were responsible for this atrocity which sparked a killing campaign that immediately turned into

Hutus and Tutsis are already identified from the rule they once had from Belgium. The Hutus are described as having dark skinned, having broader noses, and looking less European, whereas the Tutsis are more European looking, have lighter skin, and slimmer noses. The Tutsis were originally in power when the Belgians were ruling, but when they pulled out they left the Hutus in power. The Hutus after years of being put down rose up with anger against the oppression they had from when the Tutsis were in

could have been prevented if Rwanda, and surrounding countries, had placed refugee camps near Rwanda for fleeing Tutsis, the United Nations stepping in sooner and educating the public on the genocide, and allowing the Hutus to have as much of a voice that the Tutsis had (before the genocide had started).

Rwanda into three distinct groups: Hutu, Tutsi, and a marginal group of Twa that made up one percent of the population. Hutu ultimately came into power and with the help of the Interahamwe (a Hutu militia group) and the Rwandan Armed Forces committed atrocities towards Tutsi peoples under the ideal of 'social revolution ' and extermination of perceived 'enemies ' of the Hutu race. The planning and execution to erase and exterminate the culture and identity of Tutsi people is a classic and legal example

his Tutsi wife and three kids. During the conflict against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Paul struggle to house over one thousand Tutsi and Hutu refugees from being slaughtered by the Hutu militia. The two primary causes of genocide as portrayed in the movie are the RTML radio station and the UN lack of support. Hutus and Tutsis have an ethnic tension that is everlasting. The ethnic tension between the two ethnic groups began when the British turned over the power to the minority, the Tutsis. The

below the equator, and surrounded by Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda (as seen in the map on page 3). Roughly 85% of Rwanda’s population consists of Hutus and the remaining 15% Tutsi, with a small population of Twa, a Pygmy group who were the original inhabitants of Rwanda [The Rwandan Genocide, 2009]. Though the Tutsis are thought to have migrated into the Rwandan and Burundi area from the southern highlands of Ethiopia and the Hutus are characterized as earlier inhabitants of Rwanda and Burundi

million: 90% Hutu ethnic group and 9% Tutsis before the genocide began (“Rwandan Genocide<< World Without Genocide-Working to create a World Without Genocide”). The first tension was driven between the Hutus and the Tutsis when European colonists moved into Rwanda and chose the Tutsis for a group to be privileged and educated (“GENOCIDE- RWANDA”). Because of this, Hutus