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The Genocide In Rwanda

The final definition is as follows:.
             Genocide is based on four constituent factors that include a criminal act, with the intention of destroying, an ethnic, national or religious group, targeted as such (Destexhe, 5).
             Although all of these crimes were equally as horrible as the Nazis, they were not aimed at any of the mentioned groups in particular, so therefore they are not classified as genocide but rather as crimes against humanity.
             The first "real" genocide of the 20th century occurred in 1915 in Turkey. The victims were the Armenians and the aggressors were the Young Turks or the Ittihad. Close to one million Armenians were .
             massacred as the Young Turks sought to transform the Ottoman Empire and create a fully Turkish, fully Moslem country. The next genocide was the most well known, that of Hitler and the Jews. The final genocide of the 20th century is one that is perhaps even lesser known than the massacre in Turkey. Its roots lay in the colonial occupation of Africa by such countries as England, France, and specifically Germany and Belgium. The genocide in Rwanda has been an ongoing critical situation since the early 1950's. The unfortunate thing about this genocide is that it was ignored at the height of its mass murder spree by the UN and the United States and possibly could have been prevented if either or both of these entities would have intervened.
             The Rwandan "genocide" is classified as genocide because it fits the definition as set forth by the UN. Unlike the other two major genocides of the 20th century, the massacre in Rwanda has a history that spans over a half decade in which murders have occurred in every single decade. The tension in Rwanda began after Germany succeeded the colony of Ruanda-Urundi to Belgium as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1918 that formerly ended the First World War. The Belgian government began a system of tribal separation by issuing ethnic "ID" cards to the Hutu and Tutsi tribes.


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