Rwandan Genocide
May 22 2013
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Rwandan Genocide
In Rwanda, there are two well-known groups that are part of the Civil War in 1994, the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s. Thousands of Tutsi were killed by the Hutu, leaving the bodies in the streets as evidence of their power. It lasted one hundred days and one hundred nights, leaving nothing but terror and death in the Tutsi eyes. There are factors that lead to the death of over one million people during the Rwandan Genocide including the lack of U.S help and authority, the selfish acts of evacuating only Americans from Rwanda, and the evil presence that was taking over the Hutu, making them to strive for more power.
During the Rwandan Genocide, America had orders to not use the word, “genocide”, when discussing the events that were happening in Rwanda. During this time of era, Bill Clinton was the president of the United States, and he was fully aware of what had been going on in Rwanda. Also, his administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction, according to classified documents made available for the first time. Senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the president had already decided not to intervene. (Guardian). To get a better understanding of the word genocide, it means; killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
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destruction in whole or part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and forcibly transferring children of group to another group. (Nardo) All these definitions are practically describing what is going on in Rwanda. It was as if the U.S had turned their almighty backs on this country, and acted as if this was something minor, when in reality, hundreds of thousands were
Word Count:
Rwandan Genocide
In Rwanda, there are two well-known groups that are part of the Civil War in 1994, the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s. Thousands of Tutsi were killed by the Hutu, leaving the bodies in the streets as evidence of their power. It lasted one hundred days and one hundred nights, leaving nothing but terror and death in the Tutsi eyes. There are factors that lead to the death of over one million people during the Rwandan Genocide including the lack of U.S help and authority, the selfish acts of evacuating only Americans from Rwanda, and the evil presence that was taking over the Hutu, making them to strive for more power.
During the Rwandan Genocide, America had orders to not use the word, “genocide”, when discussing the events that were happening in Rwanda. During this time of era, Bill Clinton was the president of the United States, and he was fully aware of what had been going on in Rwanda. Also, his administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction, according to classified documents made available for the first time. Senior officials privately used the word genocide within 16 days of the start of the killings, but chose not to do so publicly because the president had already decided not to intervene. (Guardian). To get a better understanding of the word genocide, it means; killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members, deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical
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destruction in whole or part, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and forcibly transferring children of group to another group. (Nardo) All these definitions are practically describing what is going on in Rwanda. It was as if the U.S had turned their almighty backs on this country, and acted as if this was something minor, when in reality, hundreds of thousands were