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How Is Hotel Rwanda Related To Chapter 7

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Chapter 7 deals with ethnicities, and chapter 8 deals with political geography. A very good connection can be made with these chapters to the movie Hotel Rwanda. Hotel Rwanda is a movie about involving the Rwandan Genocide that took place in 1994. This relates to chapter 7, as it discusses ethnic cleansing and genocide. It also relates to chapter 8 in the sense that countries or groups of people within a country will compete with each other. Hotel Rwanda, as previously stated, is about the Rwandan genocide, which involved the Hutus killing over 800,000 Tutsis. Genocide can be seen as an act of terrorism and civil war, which it was. The Rwandan Genocide started because of the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana. This would
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