Rwandan Patriotic Front

guilt card consistently has been used as an explanation of Rwandan foreign policy. While it might no longer be the dominate narrative, it still exists within more recent literature. There are multitude of academic scholars, such as Pottier , Reyntjens , Hayman and Lemarchand , who write on how the implementation of the genocide guilt card concept as one of the key policy tools for power within Rwanda’s arsenal of interacting with the international community. In particular, Reytnjens provides a relatively comprehension that describes the effectiveness of the guilt card. He writes, “(the genocide guilt card) has helped deflect attention from crimes committed by the RPF (Rwanda Patriotic Front), and to…

Around eight hundred thousand people were killed during the Rwandan genocide in 1942. Paul Rusesabagina, author of An Ordinary Man, sheltered and saved the lives of over twelve hundred would-have-been victims. The following quotes are important pertaining to the plot of the story and the challenges that the author faced. “We are a nation that loves to take people into our homes. I suppose our values are very much like the Bedouin of the Middle East, for whom sheltering and defending strangers is…

The movie “Shake Hands with the Devil” is a true story about the brutal history of the Rwandan genocide. It is originally a book that was written by Romeo Dallaire; who is a Canadian humanitarian, and retired senator, that served as a force commander of UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda). The movie shows tragic scenes of how the feud between the Hutus and Tutsis affected their way of living harshly. Overall, the validity of the film is quite high, however, it contains…

After a general overview of the Rwanda genocide, it can perform an examination of the three levels of analysis; individual, state and international and with this; make possible proposals for the solution of the fact. First of all, in the individual analysis, it can see that the president; Habyarimana, took the power and decided keep the genocide between Hutus and Tutsis this simple but, important action is a very good example of the individual analysis; moreover, when Paul Kagame; leader of the…

The Rwandan Genocide is unquestionably among the great tragedies of human history. In the short time span of just over 3 months, roughly 800,000 Tutsis were killed in Rwanda, marking the swiftest mass slaughter on global record and outpacing any other genocide in the world’s history. Ghosts of Rwanda, a documentary film published by the investigative journalism program FRONTLINE, examines the political and diplomatic failures that united to enable the genocide to occur. The realist approach…

There have been many tragedies in the world, unfortunately the Rwandan Genocide fits into this category. After Rwanda’s colonial period the ruling Belgians of Rwanda favored the Tutsi minority over the Hutu majority, it caused increasing tension between the two ethnic groups that made up the Rwandan population. Hutu made up about 85% of the population and Tutsi made up the rest. Tension between the two groups later turned into great violence spread throughout the country. In July of 1962…

History of Violence Between Rwanda Ethnic Groups In the country of Rwanda tension between ethnic groups has always been in existence and it is definitely not anything new. Hutu are seen to be the more elite ethnic group than the Tutsi because they made up about eighty four percent of the Rwandan population. It didn’t help that they were viewed as “strong, stocky farmers” either. The Tutsi people were mostly herdsmen and landowners and the Hutu were the people who worked on the land so it was…

geographically located in Africa. It is directly North of Burundi and East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda has a Republican government. In Rwanda, the people speak Kinyarwanda, French, English, and Swahili. The life expectancy in Rwanda is 59. Most Rwandans are apart of the Hutu, Tutsi or Twa groups. Rwanda is made up of grassy uplands and hills. In 2013, the population of Rwanda was 11.78 million. Rwanda was made up of two main ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. Most of…

Genocide-the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Rwandan Genocide is one of the worst times in history. It started in April of 1994 and ended that July. On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying Habyarimana and Burundi’s president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down over Kigali, leaving no survivors. (It has never been conclusively determined who the culprits were. Some have blamed Hutu extremists, while others blamed leaders of the…

The Rwandan Genocide is a conflict between the Hutu and the Tutsi communities in Rwanda. The conflict only came about after the Belgians took control of Rwanda in 1916 and vocalized their preference for the minority of the Tutsi because of their physical appearance. They were taller, lighter in skin tone, had thinner noses, and just looked more Western in general than the Hutus did. This differentiation was not there between the communities before the Belgians. They were the people apart of the…