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Imperialism In Hotel Rwanda

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Rwanda is country in Africa that was under control of the Belgians until 1962. While Rwanda was under Belgian control, it was split into two ethnic groups: The Hutus and Tutsis. Belgians decided to make Tutsis superior because they were the “privileged and educated”. The Tutsis forced Hutus to work and if they did not, they were abused or killed. When the Hutus took over, it caused a lot of issues among Rwanda. The genocide began when the president's plane was shot down shortly after he signed a peace agreement between the Rwandan Army and the Rwandan Patriotic Force, who were Tutsi rebels. Approximately 800,000 people were killed all because of the want for political power. In the movie Hotel Rwanda, Dube asks Paul, “Why are people so cruel?”. This really made me question how cruel humanity can be. People are so cruel because our world is full of …show more content…

Before the Belgians invaded Rwanda, there was no ethnic division between the two. They had a few differences: those who were landworkers became the Hutus and those who were landowners became Tutsis. Until 1969, Tutsis were considered “superior” because they were wealthier and the Belgians favored their appearance. But once the Belgians left, Hutus gained control. Revenge against the Tutsis began the moment the Hutu people gained control of Rwanda. By 1973, Rwanda had a Hutu president, Juvenal Habyarimana, who was killed in 1994. The Hutu and Tutsi people have the same language, same religion, and same culture; but they were developed into different social classes. Over 90% of the Tutsi population were innocent people, yet they were still killed because they were labeled “Tutsi”. All over the world, people divide themselves into different racial, ethnic and social groups. Because of this, the world is always going to have conflict. There is never going to be “world peace” until we are all considered equal: that was the problem in

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The immense brutality those were faced with during the Holocaust, left most with such deep scarring and trauma, still plays an ongoing role in their lives, even now, 77 years after it has ended. Although the Holocaust has ended, the devastating effects of genocide are still shown and taking place throughout several other parts of the world, the Rwandan genocide being one of them. The Rwandan genocide was a huge massacre of over 800,000 people. During this time, hundreds of thousands of Tutsis (14% of Rwandan population) were being attacked by the Hutus (85% of Rwandan population) as the Hutus felt they were being discriminated against and that the Tutsis were being favored by the Belgian government. This being said, the Hutus decided to take action and rebel against them, causing an exploding massacre across Rwanda.

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Well, in Rwanda the dominate group is the Hutus and the minority is Tutsis. These two ethnic groups remind me of the two groups in America, the Blacks and the Whites during slavery. Along with the Jews and the Nazi Germans. The Hutus and the Tutsis have ethnic tension. Even though the two groups are similar they have develop tension amongst each other.

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After Belgium's withdrawal, Hutus blamed Tutsis for every crisis. (BBC News 2008) The signing of the Arusha Accords was meant to dispel the tension between them, by creating a power-sharing government between the Hutu-dominated government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which comprised mostly Tutsi refugees whose families had escaped to Uganda. However, even with such an attempt on resolving tension, this did not stop the dissent present amongst citizens, with increasing numbers of Hutus supporting the supremacist "Hutu Power" ideology and believing that the RPF was intending to restore Tutsi sovereignty and enslaving Hutus (Wikipedia 2015). This tension proved to serve as a catalyst for the Rwandan Genocide; when the airplane carrying Rwandan President and Hutu Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down, Hutu soldiers, police and militia quickly began killing the Tutsi.

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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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