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This 3-page paper attempts to draw comparisons between the wholesale genocide evidenced in Rwanda, and that evidenced in Nazi Germany. Bibliography list 1 source.
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Holocaust that Adolf Hitler fomented in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. At that time, more than 12 million people were killed because they were "undesirables." These days, when
millions are killed in various parts of the world as a part of "ethnic cleansing" or "genocide," its considered similar to the Holocaust. One of these locations is Rwanda, which
has undergone a Civil War for close to a decade. Though most people place the launch of the Rwandan Civil War in
1994 (when Tutsu refugees invaded the country and began a bloody civil war), Lemarchand, as well as others, points out that the history of this war can actually be traced
back to 1959, when the Tutsi monarchy was first overthrown (Lemarchand, 2002). Since that time, Rwanda has been a place of unrest, with battle after battle initiated to try to
topple the regime that happens to be in power at the time. But alongside the battle comes something known as "retributive genocide"
(Lemarchand, 2002). In other words, people are killed off, simply for being of a certain race or culture. Racial propaganda, for example, spurred Hutu mobs to kill innocent Tutsi civilians
at one point (Lemarchand, 2002). This isnt too different from the directives of the Nazis, who were convinced that Jews needed to be done away with, seeing as it was
the Jews fault that Germany had lost World War I, and had been in dire economic circumstances. Though Lemarchand, among others, point out that "Jews did not invade Germany with
the massive military and logic . . ." there are startling similarities between the retribution genocides practiced by both sides of the Rwandan war and the systematic destruction of
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