Compare And Contrast The Holocaust And Rwanda Genocide
Genocide is a word that should not exist. Unfortunately, it does and we’ve had to experience it in different nations throughout the world more then once. Genocide refers to violent crimes committed against groups with the intention to destroy the existence of the group. The groups could be in whole or in part, a religious, racial, ethnical, or national group. The Holocaust and the Rwanda are two instances of genocide that have occurred with many similarities and differences. The Holocaust all began as Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and started the Nazi army. He told all Germans that all people of the Jewish religion were responsible for Germanys problems. The Nazi army captured all the Jews they could, put them into concentration camps and killed them all either by a gas chamber or shooting. The Rwandan genocide took place in the small East Africa nation of Rwanda. It all began with the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana who was the president of Rwanda at the time and an accumulation of competition and tensions between the minority Tutsi, who controlled power for centuries, and the majority Hutu peoples, who had overthrown the Tutsi monarchy and came into
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During this time, the Jewish people of Europe were subjugated to increasingly rigid persecution that led to the total death number of 6,000,000 Jews. Not only were lives lost but the destruction of Jewish neighborhoods and communities occurred as well. The Rwandan genocide began on April 6, 1994. The Hutus people were slaughtering the Tutis people in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali. The brutal killings continued and lasted for 100 days. In the weeks after April 6, 1994, 800,000 men, woman and children were withered in the genocide. All in all, the time period and number of deaths in both genocides were drastically
During this time, the Jewish people of Europe were subjugated to increasingly rigid persecution that led to the total death number of 6,000,000 Jews. Not only were lives lost but the destruction of Jewish neighborhoods and communities occurred as well. The Rwandan genocide began on April 6, 1994. The Hutus people were slaughtering the Tutis people in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali. The brutal killings continued and lasted for 100 days. In the weeks after April 6, 1994, 800,000 men, woman and children were withered in the genocide. All in all, the time period and number of deaths in both genocides were drastically