Rwanda Genocide Research Paper

The Rwandan genocide was a terrible act that happened in Rwanda in 1990.This genocide impacted the world as we know it. It was a conflict between Hutus and Tutsis.This genocide happen because of false accusations. This genocide lasted over 100 days, people were hiding all the time. On April 16, the Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana plane was shot down and the Hutus blame the Tutsis for this, but matter in fact Hutus were the ones who shot the plane down Hutus always had it for the tutsis. But this didn't stop them from causing this.Hutus would spot the Tutsis by the skinny noses.The Tutis would always hide from the Hutus when this genocide starting happening because the Hutus would get in a large group and grab machetes and start slashing

people. They would attack men, women, children, and elderly if they were a tuti or if a Hutus had any relations with a Tutsis.
Civil war broke out in Rwanda in 1990, there was some serious tensions between the Tutsi minority and Hutu majority.

This civil war began when Rwandan exiles formed a group called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and launched an offensive against Rwanda from their home base in Uganda. The Hutus are committing these atrocities because they were give false information. This shows that people act on judgement and they don't need any evidence to act upon judgement they just do what they think its right and they dont know whats right and there just very confused at the moment.The RPF, which was comprised of mostly Tutsis, placed the government accountable for failing to address the Tutsi refugees. All Tutsis in the country were characterized as accomplices of the RPF and all Hutu members of the opposition parties were deemed horrible traitors that deserved nothing to the

government.
The radio was a really good technique that was utilized to not only list the location of specific Tutsis to be targeted, but to also vindicate the genocide. Radio hosts discussed discrimination the Hutus suffered under the power of the Tutsis. Strong suspicion describing Hutus as slaves during colonization painted the Rwandan genocide as a type of slave rebellion. The stories that they discussed were used to anger the Hutus and channel that anger into action. The radio was also used to dehumanize Tutsis by calling them “cockroaches,” which made them really angry making acts of violence against them seem less inhumane. People all around Rwanda was listening to the radio at all times 24/7. The Hutus would gain information from the radio by people that hated the Tutsis. They made up stories, talk bad, and say they commited crimes which they didn't commit at all. The Hutus would make up anything, so the Hutu community would get really angry so they would want justice and start searching for Tutis to find them then kill them.
The RPF was as the “Rwandan Patriotic Front” they were known as a Tutsi rebel group.

They would fight the Hutus. By the RPF doing this the Hutus changed their strategy, so they wanted to make sure to get rid of all Tutis for sure. From all this chaos from brutal mass killings, and to systematic rape. At this time rape was a widely used weapon during this moment. They weren't sure but they estimated at least 250,000 to 500,000 women was raped from all this chaos. The Hutus thought this was another way to destroy the Tutsi ethnic group through emotional pain so the ( women could “die from sadness”), most of the time after the women was raped they would just kill them right

after.
After all the brutal killings the Rwandan Patriotic Front from the effects loved ones get tortured and terrorized as they saw those they love die and feared the loss of their own life. From all this chaos it was estimated that over 100,000 children were left were orphaned, abducted or abandoned. Over twenty six percent of the Rwandan population still suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder today. In 1994, the United Nations established the International Criminal Tribunal to bring the ones who were responsible for the genocide for punishment and to bring them to justice. This shows us that commiting a crime you didn't get away with it there's always justice who cause commotion and cause people to die.