Similarities Between The Holocaust And Rwanda

The Holocaust and Rwanda's horrific massacre were great tragedies of how something so insignificant can turn into something so monumental. For instance, the Tutsis of Rwanda were labeled as cockroaches by their own countrymen, the Hutus, who had little regard for human life. In Germany, the Nazi's identified Jews by forcing them to wear the Star of David as a symbol of disgrace and shame. They also put the Jews in concentration camps and treated them like animals. From these examples, one can conclude that human rights were greatly disregarded in the Holocaust as well as in the Rwandan genocide.

Both the Holocaust and the genocide of Rwanda displayed horrible actions against mankind. They both demonstrated a stage of a massacre which was terrible

and created the loss of life along with pain and suffering and the loss of human life. Dehumanization is the act of taking someone’s human qualities or attributes. Dehumanization was a critical aspect in making the Rwandan genocide function. By thinking the Tutsis were animals, bugs, or disease, it made it easier to kill them, because they were considered as pests that had to be killed. The Hutus were thinking of the Tutsis as animals or even dark spirits, making it easier to kill them without any remorse or compassion. The Hutus do not feel any pity or mercy because if the Tutsis are animals or bugs, killing them is okay. If dehumanization had not happened in the Rwandan genocide, there may have been more normal Hutus and fewer unpredictable Hutus. By referring the Tutsis to bugs, the Hutus made them dead socially .The carnage of Rwanda, has a lot of brutal examples that occurred during it. As an example, In the Story of Valentina, all of her family was murdered and she would have been to if she hadn't have laid in the pile of dead corpses.
In the mass killing of the holocaust also demonstrated the practice of the brutal stage of mass murder. An Example, the social killings, the hanging of Jews and making others walk past them, as well as the process of giving someone unhuman like qualities or ethics are all examples of the one step of a genocide, dehumanization. When Eliezer has to run as fast as he can so he won’t be noticed during one of the steps of the selection, it is a reminder as to how large a role taking rights away from the Jews played in the Holocaust. Even in actions that the Nazis took towards Jewish people prior to extermination, dehumanization is evident. The forced wearing of the Yellow Star and the movement into the ghettos are all examples of dehumanization that the Nazis perpetrated.
In conclusion, the Genocide of Rwanda and the holocaust were great practices of the act of disabling human rights. This caused great chaos and life lost. The annihilation had a lot of bad and cruel examples of unmerciful killing. That will be never forgotten, and hopefully learned from.