Rwanda Genocide Research Paper

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The Rwandan genocide was a terrible act that happened in Rwanda in 1990.This genocide impacted the world as we know it. It was a conflict between Hutus and Tutsis.This genocide happen because of false accusations. This genocide lasted over 100 days, people were hiding all the time. On April 16, the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana plane was shot down and the Hutus blame the Tutsis for this, but matter in fact Hutus were the ones who shot the plane down Hutus always had it for the tutsis. But this didn't stop them from causing this.Hutus would spot the Tutsis by the skinny noses.The Tutis would always hide from the Hutus when this genocide starting happening because the Hutus would get in a large group and grab machetes and start slashing …show more content…

This civil war began when Rwandan exiles formed a group called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and launched an offensive against Rwanda from their home base in Uganda. The Hutus are committing these atrocities because they were give false information. This shows that people act on judgement and they don't need any evidence to act upon judgement they just do what they think its right and they dont know whats right and there just very confused at the moment.The RPF, which was comprised of mostly Tutsis, placed the government accountable for failing to address the Tutsi refugees. All Tutsis in the country were characterized as accomplices of the RPF and all Hutu members of the opposition parties were deemed horrible traitors that deserved nothing to the …show more content…

They would fight the Hutus. By the RPF doing this the Hutus changed their strategy, so they wanted to make sure to get rid of all Tutis for sure. From all this chaos from brutal mass killings, and to systematic rape. At this time rape was a widely used weapon during this moment. They weren't sure but they estimated at least 250,000 to 500,000 women was raped from all this chaos. The Hutus thought this was another way to destroy the Tutsi ethnic group through emotional pain so the ( women could “die from sadness”), most of the time after the women was raped they would just kill them right

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