Holocaust And Rwanda Genocide Essay

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The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. Beginning on April 6, 1994, Hutus began slaughtering the Tutsis in the African country of Rwanda. Genocide is the systematic destruction of all or part of a racial, ethnic, religious or national group. There have been many different other examples of genocide in history. Although there are many common characteristics and themes that occur with all genocides, the Holocaust and Rwanda were different due to aggressors, reasons, and outcomes.
Germans and Nazis were the primary aggressors of the Holocaust, but they could also count on countries such as Slovakia, Hungary and France. Jews and Gypsy were groups targeting during the Holocaust. Very strictly speaking, no religious group was targeted by the Nazis on religious grounds. Perhaps you are thinking of the Jews, but they were targeted as a race; then there were the Jehovah's Witnesses, but they were targeted for 'civil disobedience', not for their religion as such. The Hutus were the aggressors from the Rwanda genocide. The Rwandan Genocide was an armed conflict between the two social castes, the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi. Now that you know who was involved, next is why they were.
There are many excuses and different stories about what happened during the Hollocaust and the Rwanda genocide. Some people were undesirable by Nazi standards because of who they were,their genetic or cultural origins, or health conditions. Others were Nazi victims because of what they did. It was the explicit aim of Hitler's regime to create a European world both dominated and populated by the "...

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...AK-47s and other automatic weapons, so all these citizens got scared and fled to the DRC. Even though people tried to stop these events they unfortunately were not abled to.
The Holocaust mainly targeted Jews and the Gypsy community, but the Rwanda genocide targeted their own community. Just like the Rwanda genocide, the Holocaust wanted to get rid of a certain population because they were discriminating against that population. No one was successful at stopping these genocides unfortunately even when they tried. The Holocaust and Rwanda were different due to to aggressors, reasonings, and outcomes even though they had common characteristics and themes that occur with all genocides. Throughout the course of 100 days from April 6 to July 16 1994, approximately 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis and some moderate Hutus were massacred in the Rwandan genocide.

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