Genocide In Rwanda

“They prod and probe until I am awake and in a startled moment I realize that I am lying at the bottom of a pile of rotting corpses” (Keane 2). This quote is from a Tutsi civilian that was experiencing a dream out all the bodies that piled up once the killing of the Tutsis had commenced in the little country of Rwanda. To begin, the term genocide is seen differently through the eyes of all the people involved and requires specific steps. In Rwanda, different cultural views caused division amongst the Hutu and the Tutsi. All the premeditated stages of genocide can be connected with the events that occurred in Rwanda. Finally, in order to do away with genocides, global intervention must happen for the sake of the people. The monstrosity of Rwanda,

The first definition is the organized killing of people because of their membership in a group (Rummel). Also, genocide is often thought of to be one of the most heinous moral injustices a government can inflict on it’s people or territory. To continue, the UHCG (Convention on the Prevention and punishment of the Crime of Genocide) has said that a genocide is, “the intention to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” (Rummel). Finally, another definition, which is also called a democide, is “any intentional government murder of unarmed and helpless people for people for whatever reason”

After the reported (false) death of Dominique Mbonyumutwa, confused killings erupted, and Tutsi houses were being burned with people still inside of them (Prunier 49). Businessmen would hire local militiamen to kill Tutsis, and in return they would pay them with alcohol (Klinghoffer 45). Also, there were some situations where Tutsis were forced to kill their own people, and the Hutu were given the option of kill or be killed as well (Klinghoffer 45). Finally, at the University of Butare, many of the Tutsi students and professors were taken out of the college and killed on the lawns (Klinghoffer