Similarities Between The Holocaust And Rwanda

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Rwandans are represented as very poor and defenseless in the movie. The Tutsis are seen as defenseless and the Hutu extremists are seen as very violent towards them. The entire country is seen as very unclean and disorganized because of all the conflict. There is overcrowding in many places, especially hotels(Hôtel des Milles Collines) and places of residency. The Hutus show no mercy to the Tutsis and kill at will, no matter where they are. For example, Hutu soldiers personally went to Tutu homes and scavenged them for Tutu people to kill and take to concentration camps. Paul had to pay a great amount of money just to get 4 out of about 20 Tutsis free from Hutu militia. The Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust had differences and similarities. A major difference was the method of …show more content…

Also, the speed in which each genocide was completed differed. The Rwandanw genocide took place in about 100 days (about 800,000 killed), while the Holocaust took place over about 3 or 4 years (around 6 million died). There were different incentives in each genocide for targeting the victims . Obviously the identity of the victims was different, but in Rwanda, the Tutsi group were targeted because the RPF (Tutsi-led army) was attacking Rwanda, and many of the Hutu killers believed all Tutsi supported the RPF. This doesn't excuse the killing of innocent civilians, but say the Tutsi were a lot more threatening than the Jews, who were a harmless minority. The act of peacekeeping was apparent in Rwanda but not in Germany.. There were peacekeepers, such as the United Nations, in place trying to prevent conflict in Rwanda, while in Germany and Eastern Europe, there were no such peacekeepers since the war was going on. There were similarities to the two as well. In both genocides, propaganda played a large role in making the murders of neighbors seem

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