Rwanda Essay Conclusion

The tragic events that happened in Rwanda are vastly unknown to western civilization. Its tragic beginnings and suffering are often overlooked in world history. The casual chain of events led to the genocide’s outcomes are still being mourned today. From the vast killings by machete to the governmental ramifications after the genocide, Rwanda’s events ought to be remembered and should never be permitted from reoccurring. It should serve as a learning experience to the rest of the world in how an action could bring unforeseen effects.

For over half a century of Rwanda’s history the Tutsi’s and Hutu tribes had internal struggles for power. It was fueled by ethnic discrimination and persecution caused by the European occupation. During world war one in 1894, Belgium occupied Rwanda as a colony and separated the Tutsi’s and Hutu’s into different classes. The Tutsi’s and Hutu’s were two people who shared the same past, they were cattle herders who were separated by name in how many cattle one owned. The Tutsi’s owned the most cattle and everyone else was Hutu. They used to live peacefully and there was no organized crime, judgment or clashes between the people. But when the Europeans first settled in Rwanda, and they saw these cattle herding people, they established the category Tutsi and Hutu as racial roles. The Germans saw the Tutsi’s as having more European characteristics like lighter skin or straighter noses and that was the first step in causing the tragedy that was to come.

The Germans then gave the Tutsi the role of leaders of the nation and the peace Rwanda once had was no more. The Europeans further damaged the people’s way of life by giving the Tutsi’s identifications to separate them from the Hutu’s and other smaller cl...

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.... While there are over 130,000 suspects in Rwanda’s prison, the trails still go on today and have been estimated to be at over one million cases solved.

All of these horrors, hardships and sufferings were caused by a simple rift in social class made by people who had no true say in the way these people should have lived their lives. That simple decision started a casual chain of events that lead to another moment in history where humanity forgot its humanity. Human beings as a whole should never collectively allow actions like a mass genocide by machete to occur so easily, or in the event that they do happen attempt to stop it before more people are needlessly killed. We should also learn to realize what our impact, actions, decisions and the effects of our judgment could bring to anything we do and remember Rwanda as a grim example of the gravity of those effects.