“Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!” Raphael Lemkin once proclaimed. Both an event in Rwanda and the Holocaust were genocides. A genocide is the mass murder of a group of people especially those of a certain race or religion. There have been quite a few different genocides, in many different countries, and sometimes there are different reasons that caused them too. The Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust are an example of two genocides that were alike in some ways, but different in many. In fact, they were more different than similar.
Next, the biggest similarity between the incident in Rwanda and the Holocaust is that they were both genocides. In Rwanda, the Hutus believed that they were superior to the Tutsis and began to kill hundreds of thousands of them. In Germany and Poland, the Germans felt that Jews were inferior to them and wanted to kill each and every one of them. In both situations, a specific group of people were being targeted, mainly because others believed that they were better than that group of people. Both genocides caused a substantial amount of people to lose their lives at the hands of others.
Subsequently, the biggest difference between the Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust is the methods used by the
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The people in each genocide were killed in different ways and the number of people murdered is completely different. The Holocaust lasted about 14 times longer than the Rwandan genocide. Despite the fact that the incident in Rwanda and the Holocaust are both genocides, there were still several differences. These genocides devastated so many families around the world, especially the families that lost their loved ones. Hopefully after reading books like Night and watching movies like Hotel Rwanda, we can see just how terrible these atrocities were and work to prevent them from happening in the