The Genocide of Rwanda

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Population

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• 7 million people total• 85% Hutu• 14% Tutsi• 1% Twa

Late 1950s• Rwandan Independence• Hutus Rejoiced• Transferred with attacks on Tutsis

1930s

• Belgians issued ID cards

• President Juvénal Habyarimana was assassinated on April 6, 1994

• Unleashed Horrifying Events

Change of Government

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Propaganda

• Broadcasts told Hutus to “defend themselves”

• Hutu were told the Tutsi were to blame for poverty

• Ideology said Tutsis were foreign, had no right to live in Rwanda

• Newspapers and radio (1990-1994)

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Hutu-Tutsi Conflict

• Nothing to do with language or religion.• Class warfare• Tutsi from Ethiopia, Hutu from Chad• Assassination of President Habyarimana

sparked the extermination of Tutsis• Widespread sexual violence against Tutsi

women

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United Nations

• The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was established on December 8, 1948.

• More than 20 countries ratified the UNPPCG

• UN Peacekeeping forces arrived by the end of 1993. Months behind schedule.

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Raphael Lemkin

• Polish-Jewish Scholar• Fled Nazi-occupied Poland• “Genocide”

– Acts committed with intent to destroy– Didn’t exist before 1944

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“What is Genocide?”

• Killing or causing serious bodily harm to members of a race or religion

• Intent to destroy a national, ethical, racial or religious group.

• Preventing birth from members of the group and forcibly transferring children of the group.

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People Killed

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Death Comparison