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Compare And Contrast Civil War And Rwanda

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Rwanda has lived through the horrors of war and empathises with the people of LIBYA through their time of strife. The Libyan Civil War and The Rwanda Civil War were very similar. Both these wars were ethnic in nature and had a similar impact on their economies. The horror of war shattered the entire nation. It lead to an unstable economy, disruption of democracy and bloodshed. Though one wonders why these wars took place, the only reason which the delegate would like to state is mistrust among people, dictatorship, and lack of mutual understanding amongst warring tribes. Wars are neither god gifted nor nature’s gift to us it’s all manmade and are self consuming and self destructive.
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The Rwandan genocide was the systematic killing of millions of Tutsis and moderate Hutus by the Hutu people. The genocide officially started after a plane carrying the President of Rwanda - who was a Hutu- was shot down. As a result of the Genocide millions of Tutsis were brutally murdered, raped and the HIV rate shot up. The fact that the Rwandan Genocide

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When the international community responded indifferently toward the Rwandan genocide, “labeling it an ‘internal conflict’,” as the U.S. Holocaust Museum states, perpetrators could commit those genocidal crimes with little constraint; this directly led to the genocide later in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Adding fuel to [the Congo’s] unstable mix, some one million refugees, mostly the Hutu fearing the… Tutsis, fled into [the Congo]… at the end of the Rwandan genocide” and before the first war of the Congo. Additionally, leaders of that genocide followed, and “Organizing themselves in the fertile grounds of the massive refugee camps in Eastern Congo,... [they] began preying on the local Congolese population and making incursions back into Rwanda” (The U.S. Holocaust Museum 1).

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To begin with, the causes and effects are quite different. The Rwandan genocide is more simple: It is directly related to European colonialism in the early 20th century. Modern Rwanda sits in the Congo River

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The Holocaust and the Genocide of Rwanda both deal with the mass killing of their inferior ethnic. Rwanda is a small country in Central Africa. The population was mainly made up of Hutu, but some were Tutsis. During the colonial period in Rwanda, a mass killing of Tutsis began(Rwanda: A Brief). There was tension between the Tutsis and Hutus (Bower).

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To conclude, it is important to acknowledge the historical context of this horrific genocide. There are multiple factors causing the Rwandan Genocide, such as the social, political, and economic factors. First, “social differences between the Hutu and the Tutsi traditionally were profound” (“Rwandan Genocide of 1994”). These differences lead to prejudice and

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The difference about the two genocides is that in Rwanda the killings started right after their leader died but in Bosnia the killings started a decade after their leader passed away. Also in both genocides people were killed in the day and the night in large quantities. One difference about the methods used by each country was that in Bosnia concentration camps were used against anyone who was not a Serb. In Rwanda they wasted no time because they would kill their victims immediately on sight. Those were some differences about how each country’s version of genocide but both were

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Camps were set up for former Rwandese soldiers to rearm, these camps were one of the reasons war broke out between Congo and Rwanda in 1996. To this day Rwandese forces are found along the border and continue to attack citizens (Outreach Programme on the Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations). Since then there have been genocide trails for those involved in the mass killings. In conclusion, the European colonisation of Rwanda by Belgium created problems it was unable to solve after the country gained its independence.

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In 1994, in Rwanda, the mass killings of 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutus occurred. The killings were carried out by Hutus, as tensions rose between the two groups when the country gained its independence in the 1960s and the Belgians openly favoring the Tutsi people. The mass killings that occurred in Rwanda should be considered as a genocide because it fits with the definition of genocide as it was the destruction of a whole/part of a specific group of people. The Hutu people committed acts and crimes in order to achieve the extermination of the Tutsi people. However the events in Rwanda can be considered as a civil war because people from the same nation are fighting each other as well as if it was considered a genocide then the UN can intervene and prevent the genocide from occurring or stopped it, except they didn’t intervene.

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The death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana whose plane was shot down above the Kigali airport in April 6 1994 was the last straw. A French judge blamed the current Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, at the time the leader of a Tutsi rebel group (“How the Genocide Happened-BBC News”). The rebel group wanted to overthrow Habyarimana and return to their homeland. After months of fighting they finally signed a peace treaty but it did little to stop the arguments between the two cultures (“How the Genocide Happened-BBC News”). Then when the plane was shot down the genocide

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The genocide was an after affect of the scramble for Africa by European countries who help no regard for the people who already lived their. In the scramble for Africa many European countries raced to make claims on land in Africa that was already lived on by natives, they mistreated the natives and killed and enslaved many of them. This was prevalent in Rwanda when the belgians imperialized the land. The belgians sent the Hutus who were the majority of the population into slavery and lead to mass deaths of their people. But they lead the land through another ethnic group the tutsis who made up about 15% of the population compared to the 85% population of Hutus.

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In fact, Rwanda has a long history of politicization of land: those who held political power often intervened and appropriated land for their own purposes” Thus struggle for power by both ethnic groups is what we ultimately see on the outside as to why this conflict occurred, however it is in fact because those who owned the land had the power that we know that this issue was more of a territorial one. This conflict turned into such violent one as the Hutus believed that the only way to gain ownership of the land and of the power was to exterminate the Tutsi. Land belonging to Tutsi was distributed to Hutu after they were killed or exiled. It is because of the twos deep rooted hatred and resentment of one and other that the violence escalated to such a horrific

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