Similarities Between The Holocaust And Rwanda

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The Holocaust and Rwanda's horrific massacre were great tragedies of how something so insignificant can turn into something so monumental. For instance, the Tutsis of Rwanda were labeled as cockroaches by their own countrymen, the Hutus, who had little regard for human life. In Germany, the Nazi's identified Jews by forcing them to wear the Star of David as a symbol of disgrace and shame. They also put the Jews in concentration camps and treated them like animals. From these examples, one can conclude that human rights were greatly disregarded in the Holocaust as well as in the Rwandan genocide.
Both the Holocaust and the genocide of Rwanda displayed horrible actions against mankind. They both demonstrated a stage of a massacre which was terrible

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