Famous genocides in Africa?

Question

Well i have a power point presentation project and im doing it on genocides. But im not sure what genocides to do it on. So does any one know big genocides like the Rwanda genocide?

Please post at least 2 genocides.

Thanks for reading my question

Answer 1

How about Somalia,Nigeria(Niger Delta)

Answer 2

THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE AND THE REFUGEE CRISIS (1994-1996)

From April to June 1994, hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi and Hutu opposed to the Habyarimana regime were brutally massacred by the army and extremist militia of Rwanda. This genocide, the second one recognised as such by the United Nations, has silenced the resounding "never again" declarations that followed the end of the Second World War and the capitulation of the Nazi regime. After the extermination of European Jews, the world powers of the 20th century have failed to react to another genocide, this time not behind the frontline established between the Allied Powers and a powerful dictatorship, but in a small country with a weak and ill-equipped army, where western military intervention could have stopped the slaughter within a few days or weeks. There was no risk of an international escalation--the Berlin Wall had fallen five years earlier--and there was no international rivalry over Rwanda, a rather insignificant country somewhere in the middle of Africa. Worse still, the genocide happened literally under the eyes of 2,600 UN peacekeepers.

The reasons that led to this tragic failure have been analysed by a consortium of European and North American donors as well as by the Belgian and French parliaments.3 An investigation of the UN's role was launched in early 1999 by Secretary General Kofi Annan, who was at the time heading the UN department for peacekeeping operations. Perhaps these critical evaluations have contributed to the decision of Washington and its European NATO allies to act in Kosovo before it was too late. None of these investigations, seem to have contributed significantly to a prevention of the steadily continuing breakdown of humanitarian principles and international order that followed the Rwandan genocide and the exodus of several million people in the Great Lakes region.



THE ESCALATION OF THE KIVU CONFLICT (1996/7)

On the 9th of October 1996, the Vice-Governor of South Kivu, Lwabanji Ngabo, summoned all Banyamulenge (ethnic Tutsi of the highlands to the east of the Rusizi river and Lake Tanganyika) to leave the country. He thus sparked off an escalation of a scope nobody could yet imagine: a war of seven months, involving troops from Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda and Angola as well as logistic support from Zimbabwe, leading to the ousting of President Mobutu and his entire political entourage.

However, the war between Rwanda and Zaire did not come as a surprise. Vice-President Paul Kagame told diplomats in early 1996 that if the international community was unable or unwilling to stop the delivery of weapons to the ex-FAR and Interahamwe and the military training in the refugee camps, the Rwandan government could decide to take preventive military action. Furthermore, the notorious corruption of the Mobutu regime had left Zaire a hollow state that only continued to exist thanks to the skilful manipulation of political opponents and foreign allies by the master of Gbadolite;7 once the external support had faded because of the end of the Cold War, and as soon as the internal manipulation was hampered by organised democratic opposition, the country was precipitated into protracted political instability.8

Answer 3

Two? People in Africa have been destroying each other ever since they came into contact.

Ruanda is a good recent choice, especially as the Don Cheedle film (Hotel Rwanda) is very very good. I haven't yet seen the Last King of Scotland, though I know of a 1971 documentary, Government approved -- and you will marvel at this if you see it --by Barbet Schroeder, called General Idi Amin Dada. Still I reckon Idi can't be accused of genocide, as he mostly massacred his own people

But look at what is going on in Darfur at this very moment.

Answer 4

The Matabele, when they left the Zulus led by Mzilikazi, killed every livinf thing they met.