The civil war between the ethnic groups Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda, like many civil wars in Africa, had colonial roots. However, the civil war took a extreme turn for the worst on a tragic day in April where thousands of Tutsis lost their lives in a relentless genocide that lasted a hundred days carried out by the Hutus. In this essay, I will explain the cause of the civil war, the 1994 genocide and the aftermath of the genocide. According to a articley called “Rwanda: How the Genocide Happeneded” in the BBC NEWS site, the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsi originated with the arrival of the Belgian colonist. Belgian colonial leaders and the Catholic Church deepened the racial divide between the majority Hutu populated country of Rwanda, by awarding Tutsi ethnic group better job and education opportunities.
[Type the company name] Rwandan Genocide April- June 1994. Kendel In the months between April and June of 1994, tensions between the Hutus and Tutsis had reached extreme levels. The influence of imperialism changed the psychological, political and cultural ideologies that had never existed between the two ethnic groups leading to the genocide in Rwanda. In Rwanda, prior to the genocide, the Hutus and Tutsis use to interact with each other and get along just fine. One, reason why tensions began was because once the Belgians gained control over the Rwanda they gave the authority to the minority Tutsis over the majority Hutus.
In the United States a number of prominent leaders and organizations established fundraising drives for the remnants of the "Starving Armenians". In Europe the Allied Powers gave public notice that they would hold personally responsible all members of the Turkish government and others who had planned or participated in the massacres. Yet, within a few years, these same governments and statesmen turned away from the Armenians in total disregard of their pledges. Soon the Armenian genocide had become the "Forgotten Genocide". In effect, the Turkish government had succeeded in its diabolical plan to exterminate the Armenian population from what is now Turkey.
After that, future President Andrew Jackson promoted the wholesale slaughter and mutilation of natives in the 1830s, ordering his men to cut the noses off hundreds of slain natives to provide accurate body counts. This mentality of brutality isn’t limited to early American History. As late as the 1890, future President Theodore Roosevelt was declaring that in nine out of ten cases, the “only good Indian was a dead Indian.” All four of the individuals mentioned not only served as President of the United States, but three of them are celebrated with their likenesses carved into the Mt. Rushmore National Monument. That we describe the practitioners of such brutality as ‘heroes’ can only be described as shameful.
Al Anfal literally means the spoils of war. The Al Anfal genocide was led by Saddam Hussein's Ba’athist regime. The Al Anfal genocide was an eight stage, carefully planned attempt to destroy the Kurdish population between February 23rd and September 6th 1988. The Kurdish population is the 4th largest ethnic group in northern Iraq.
The Armenian people had a lot to move on from. Almost all their population was wiped out. The Kurdish Genocide was centrally planned and administered by the Iraqi Government against the entire Kurdish population. In Sarafian Fernandes’ paper “After 16 March 1988, one word came to symbolize the tragedy of the Kurds -- Halabja. Halabja is the Kurdish Auschwitz; not because the scale of the massacre was comparable with that of the Nazi death camp, but because the victims were chosen merely because they were Kurdish civilians.” In the beginning before the genocide, Armenians, Kurds and Turks lived in relative harmony in the Ottoman Empire for centuries.
After World War I, Germany was forced to give up Rwanda in the Treaty of Versailles. Belgium became the new owners of Rwanda. The Belgians found Rwanda's political system at the time to be confusing, so they completely reformed it to better fit Belgium's political systems and understandings. The Belgians removed many chiefs from power and got rid of Hutu lords. The Belgians believed that the Tutsi were racially superior to the Hutu and thus granted them the political positions in the colony.
Wesney 1st Block April 12, 2013 Ugandan Genocide Although it is not as notorious as the massive genocide that occurred at the hands of Hitler in the early to mid-1900’s, the genocide that took place in Uganda was a genocide all the same and should not be overlooked. The man responsible for the killings was Idi Amin Dada, the third “president” of Uganda, though he ruled like a dictator and killed anyone he saw as a threat to his power. Idi Amin Dada was born in 1925 near the village of Koboko, in the Republic of Uganda and in 1946, at the age of 21, joined the King’s African Rifles (KAR). Idi Amin served in many countries such as Burma, Somalia, Kenya, and Uganda and was considered a highly skillful and cruel soldier. He was also known for using extreme brutality during interrogations and held the Ugandan light heavyweight boxing championship title for nine years, from 1951 to 1960.
He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people yet his good deeds cover up his bad deeds, which is idiotic. He should not be remembered for being the owner of the Congo Free State; he should also be remembered for causing the genocide of many Congolese people. After Leopold had relinquished the Congo the Belgium government still governed a substantial amount in the Congo (" Afterward..."). After years of the Belgium government running the Congo they
Hochschild places King Leopold among the great tyrants of history. It is hard to say what the actual death toll under his reign was, both because accurate records were not kept and because Leopold deliberately destroyed many of the existing records shortly before the government of Belgium took the Congo out of his hands. According to Congo historians, Wm. Roger Louis and Jean Stengers, the earliest population and mortality estimates are "wild guesses". In the novel, many subsequent lines of inquiry conclude that the early official estimates were essentially correct: roughly half the population of the Congo perished during the Free State period.