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.
Hate media had a huge role in the genocide as it dehumanized and demonized the Tutsi by calling them inyenzi (cockroach), Tall Trees and devils. It also exposed Tutsi as well as moderate Hutu’s names and locations so they could be killed and was the thing that started the genocide by saying “Time to cut down the Tall
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Both used names to dehumanize the other group like ‘rats’, ‘tall trees’, ‘devils’ and ‘inyenzi’. Neighbors, friends and family members would directly or indirectly kill the group member or cause the death of the member. Both used propaganda to spread hate speech or influence people to kill or expose the Tutsi or Jews as well as anybody that tried to hide or refuse to kill the Jews or Tutsi were believed to be traitors and were