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The Rwanda Genocide

Belgium considered the Tutsis to be superior to the Hutus. The Tutsis welcomed this idea because it allowed them to have better jobs and educational opportunities ("Rwandan Genocide: 100 Day Slaughter"). Rwanda was granted their independence by Belgium in 1962 ("Rwandan Genocide: 100 Day Slaughter"). Immediately after being colonized the Hutus showed their hatred towards the Tutsis, and the slaughter began. BBC news states that the, "Organized gangs of government soldiers and militias hacked their way through the Tutsi population with machetes, or blew them up in churches where they had taken refuge" ("Rwandan Genocide: 100 Day Slaughter"). Hutus were savages when it came to slaughtering the Tutsis. There were mass murders committed by the Hutus, and this lead to the formation of a rebel group created by the Tutsis called the Rwandan Patriotic Front ("Rwandan Genocide: 100 Day Slaughter"). The former government then forced the Hutus to go out and fight back against the Tutsis. If a Hutu refused to kill a Tutsi then they too would be killed. Only a few Tutsis survived, and those who did were kept as sex slaves, subjected to rape, and are now HIV positive ("Rwanda Genocide: 100 Day Slaughter"). .
             Angellque Mukamanzi is living proof of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, and she has spoken out about her unthinkable experience. Mukamanzi gives her testimony about the days she suffered during the massive slaughter. She mentions the mornings when she would hear the Hutus announce their arrival by shouting songs of hatred and loud whistles. She described herself having to cover up in mud and lay in the swampy grass till the nighttime. It was at night when Mukamanzi was able to gather filthy raw food for her and family to eat. After eating Mukamanzi and her family would lie back down and talk the night away, wondering when it'd be their turn to die.


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1. Rwanda

RWANDA Rwanda: Genocide or Civil War? ... There have been several arrests and convictions related to the genocide in Rwanda. The trials are held in Rwandan courts, which may or may not follow United Nations regulations regarding genocide. Reports from a February 29, 2000 newspaper article in Kigali Rwanda: Rwanda has sentenced four people to death in a joint trail of 40 people charged with genocide . ... Since the end of the genocide of more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus Rwandan courts have tried more than 1,500 people among 125,000 genocide suspec...

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2. Genocide in Rwanda

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3. Genocide in Rwanda

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4. Behind the Rwandan Genocide

The Rwandan Genocide officially began on April 7th, 1994 and lasted approximately one hundred days; however, acts of murder have been occurring since the power shift from a Tutsi lead government, to a Hutu lead government, in the 1950's. ... Before the genocide, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, or RPF for short, invaded Northern Rwanda, from Uganda. ... This invasion is what sparked the Rwandan Civil War, in 1990. ... Stanton, in 1996, there are eight stages to a genocide, and The Rwandan Genocide follows the eight stages exactly. First, in Rwanda, there have always been bipolar societies; th...

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5. Genocide In Rwanda

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6. Genocide in Rwanda

Genocide in Rwanda The definition of genocide as given in the Webster's College Dictionary is "The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group." ... The Rwandan genocide was the systematic extermination of over eight hundred thousand Tutsi, an ethnic group in Rwanda, by the Hutu, another ethnic group in Rwanda. In this essay I will briefly describe the history of the conflict of the Hutu and Tutsi, the 100 days of genocide in 1994, and the affects of the massacre on the economy and the people of Rwanda. ... Eventually, though, the Rwand...

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7. The Rwandan Genocide

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8. Legal and Non-Legal Responses to the Rwandan Genocide

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9. Rwanda

The Rwandan people are mostly farmers. ... The economy of Rwanda has fallen dramatically in the years after the 1994 genocide. ... Over the course of the war many things changed the way Rwanda was looked at, including the genocide in 1994. ... But in July of 1994 the rebels ended the genocide when they defeated the Hutus reign, and in 1999 Rwanda held their fist local elections (CIA). ... He used anti-government propaganda to strike fear in the population during a political campaign, which have been outlawed since the 1994 genocide ("Ex-"). ...

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