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A 3 page paper which analyzes the genocide activities in Rwanda in 1994. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days" (BBC, 2006). This genocide began when the president of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimanas, plane was shot down (BBC, 2006). As
could well be assumed, it could not have been one simple event that would cause the loss of so many people in such a short time. There must have been
more to the genocide than one simple event. With that in mind the following paper examines the cause of the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Rwanda Genocide
As one author notes, "There have been always been disagreements between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis, but the animosity between them has grown substantially
since the colonial period" (BBC, 2006). Another author notes that, "The current disaster erupted after only the briefest and most tentative of interludes in a brutal civil war that erupted
in 1990--itself only the latest in a string of ethnic conflicts in both Rwanda and neighbouring Burundi since independence from Belgium in 1962" (Smyth, 1994; 16). And, according to Smyth
(1994) many third party governments have often aided in the conflicts through history, more recently through supplying arms. In this brief illustration it is apparent that the problems
lay with the Hutus and the Tutsis. The president of Rwanda was a Hutu and this incited powers to encourage the Hutus to engage in this genocide it seems. This
is indicated by one author who states that the murder of a Hutu president allowed the thought that ordinary citizens could become involved in angry massacres and that, "If the
Tutsis did this to your president, the genocidaires told fearful Hutu peasants, think what they will do to you" (The Economist (US), 2004; 26US). The tension between the two
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