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This 12 page paper discusses the warfare between the Tutsis and the Hutus in Rwanda. Also discussed and examined was the International World Criminal Court's actions and decisions regarding the trial of Akeyesu. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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many do not understand about Africa is that prior to the colonization efforts of several countries, Africa was a thriving continent with its own rules and laws. Comprised of many
African nations, the Hutu and Tutsi seemed to suffer the most in post-colonization, culminating in an event called Genocide II in 1994 which nearly erased their culture from the Earth.
Yet, they managed to survive. Chapter Six of Bill Berkeleys The Defendant, and Bruce Jones book, Civil Wars in Africa Roots and Resolution explain what events led up to the
event and in the aftermath of the event, how rebuilding was possible. The Hutu and Tutsi people seem to have always been at war with one another. However, the
late eighties and the early nineties would see them take their feuds to new levels of atrocity. At last count nearly half a million people, mostly Tutsi, were dead as
a result of both Genocide attempts(Thornton 1999). What is more difficult to understand, however, is the why of the constant strife between these two tribes. What, perhaps, has acted
as a hindrance to understanding by the Western mind is that African culture bears little resemblance to any other. The conflicts defy analogy and yet, when one starts to peel
back layer after layer of incidents and events, it becomes clear that the conflict is not merely a tribal conflict. Nor is it primarily a caste difference, though that is
the concept that comes the closest. The Tutsis were considered by most to be the elite or higher class, while the Hutus were considered inferior and common. "A Tutsi
cast in the role of client vis-a-vis a wealthier patron would be referred to as Hutu, even though his cultural identity remained Tutsi"(Burundi, 1996, 10). However, though they have warred
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