Genocide In Rwanda

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Genocide is the extermination of a cultural or ethnic group, according to Lockard. According to the United Nations in 1941, genocide is intending to destroy parts or the whole of different nations, ethnic, racial, or religious by killing, causing harm bodily or mental harm, physical destructions of the religious buildings, preventing procreations and relocating children to another group. Genocide is different from other mass deaths because genocide targets a particular group and mass death is killing everyone.

There is no exactly one answer for genocide to occur. For example, the country of Rwandan had a history of violence between the different ethnic groups Hutus and Tutsis. As the Rwandan were granted independence from Belgium in 1962,

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