Rwanda Genocide: Examples Of Jealousy And Power

Rwandan Genocide

The Rwandan genocide would be one of many examples of jealousy and power. In Africa falls a tiny country called Rwanda. Rwanda’s small country is around the size of Maryland and roughly the population of eight million people . Since the country was so small this made it easier to function if the three groups of people (Hutus, Tutsis, and Twas) coexist peacefully as neighbors. The Twas only make up about one percent of the land. The Hutus being the biggest of the group and the Tutsi being the middle in size. The Twas were the lowest class, the Hutus were the middle class, and the Tutsis were the upper class. The three groups that make up Rwanda got split up and classified by social status, only Tutsis could be the leaders.

This was a devastating event and it's near impossible just to forget about what happened. If you were to walk into Rwanda right now it would look as so that nothing went on. There’s communities with Hutus and Tutsis in it and living peacefully, even helping each other. The country started to come back together and look identical to what it once had been. The people who were the leaders of this mass genocide now getting convicted or already have been put to justice in the Gacaca courts. In gacaca courts they tried almost everyone. The courts had different levels, meaning if you admitted your guilt and showed remorse for what you did, you would be let free if you prove you have done so can prove the if there was an alternative you would do it then you were let free. there were some countries that helped. Places like Tanzania let the immigrants that fled Rwanda live in there country. However that’s the only countries that did help. After the Holocaust the whole world said never again. Never again will i let a mass killing happen like Hitler and his Nazi soldiers did to the Jews. The question being how did this happen. The claim that the United States made was they simply did not know. America genuinely felt bad, in 1998 President Clinton gave a formal apology which would later be known as the “Clinton apology”. In the apology Clinton tell Rwanda that he knows the U.S and the world did not do enough. The world sat there while Rwanda was in crisis. Lots of countries claim “they didn't know” but I don’t know if I am settled on that answer. So let's say they did know why would they not help. Was it because we did not want to start a war from intervening? Or because it was not our problem? Whatever the reason, we did not help and we owe the biggest of apologies to the people who were affected. The Origins of Conflicts