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Question

I HAVE A REPORT DUE IN 24 HOURS AND 10 THOUSAND DIF. SITES R GIVING ME DIFFERENT INFO ON THE RWANDA GENOCIDE PLEASE HELP !!

Answer 1

There is never a true answer to things that happened in history - only some facts and normally the winners get to write the history books.

[Wikipedia is always a good starting point but try not to copy word for word as its a bit obvious to the marker and if you can't reword the text it doesnt show that you understood it. my reworded(long) answer: ]

Genocide is a systematic attempt to annihilate (kill every man, woman and child of) a racial group or nation. In the case of Rwanda, the group was the weathy Tusi economic group. The word, Genocide, was first used in 1944 when describing Nazi Germany efforts to kill "racially inferior" or "undesirable" groups in their occupied territory. These included Poles, Sebs, Croat, Jews and other groups. Estimates range from 9-26 million people exterminated during World War II. Unfortunately several examples of Genocide have occured since then.

In Rwanda, approximately 1 million ethnic Tutsis where killed by rival armed Hutu in 1994 over the period of 100 days. (thats 10 000 people per day - while the UN and Bill Clinton twiddled their thumbs - The United Nations peacekeepers where very slow to react and did not enter the country until after much of the damage had been done. )

The Tutsis had the best farm land and passed it down to their children. Over time poor tutsis became referred to as Hutus. So what started out as two different race groups became basically the "some-rich-tusis" and the "many-poor-hutus". Germany(starting in 1885) and Belgium(starting in 1912) both controlled Rwanda as a colony, encouraged racism and kept the tutsis in power. In 1959, Belguim gave up Rwanda and during elections the Hutus came to power (more hutus=more votes=political power).

After loss of political power, many tusis had fled to neighbouring uganda (for good reason - the hutus killed 20 000 of them) but starting in 1990 tusis began to return with military protection/an army. The Hutus fearing that they may have loose control to the Tusis again and also possibly being interested in stealing the Tusis owned farm land and remembering what it was like to having been poor and controlled probably sparked off this violent killing spree.


What combination of the buttons in humans needs to be pushed to bring out a animal like feeding frenzy where as a group we murder people on mass? Some ideas:

* a demographic dividing factor such as religion, race, income to split the groups - to create a us and them mentality
* scareness of resources (food, water)
* some financial gain (for the more intellectual members-in this case valuable land)
* some simple anchor for hatred such as race or religion (for the less intellectual members)
* long term foundation of bitterness
* must be a large group of people
* a charismatic leader who tell people this is the right thing to do - such as Hitler

Answer 2

The Rwanda Genocide (French: Génocide au Rwanda) was the massacre of an estimated 800,000 to 1,071,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda, mostly carried out by two extremist Hutu militia groups, the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi, during a period of about 100 days from April 6th through mid-July 1994.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
I've always found wikipedia to be up to date in all topics with info etc.

Answer 3

maybe you have to be a bit more specific in your search? what exactly are you studying about the genocide?