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The Genocide of Rwanda
By: Matt Jorgensenhttp://www.menwhokilledme.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/rwanda-3717-r10.jpg
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Population
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• 7 million people total• 85% Hutu• 14% Tutsi• 1% Twa
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Late 1950s• Rwandan Independence• Hutus Rejoiced• Transferred with attacks on Tutsis
1930s
• Belgians issued ID cards
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• 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
http://worldnews.about.com/od/africa/f/tutsihutu.htm
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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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