The Causes And Effects Of The Rwandan Genocide

Genocides are never a good thing to witness or be part of, but there are many different cases where you could have never seen it coming for your people. A genocide is the killing of a large group of people. Genocides happen everywhere but they seem to sometimes go uncounted for, or unrecognized in many different places. The start of Genocides usually start off with the dislikings of a certain group of people by a person which then leads into a group of people.When genocides happen families are hurt, stressed and ruined, while people try everything to save their lives, it is still hard to try and escape from a genocide. The holocaust is one of the world known genocides, this genocide is taught many times in classes starting from middle school.

This generalization happened after World War 1 due to the fact that Belgium had taken over many different places in Africa and Rwanda happened to be one. While they had taken over Rwanda they started placing them in groups, Tutsis started become the favored of the Belgium's (History Rwanda 1). This then began a strong hate of the Tutsis by the Hutus. On April 6th 1994, a plane was shot down but this certain plane was carrying Rwanda and Burundi presidents in them, there was no survivors. Hutus believed that the Tutsis were to blame, and soon after on April 7th Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi set up roadblocks and started killing Tutsis (History Rwanda 1). Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi were both made of Hutu nationalists who wanted to get rid of all Tutsis left in Rwanda. Since the Tutsis in Rwanda were so little due to the fact that those who were actually left in Rwanda were those with Family ties and marriage. In some cases soldiers would burn down holmes, kill people inside their homes and search places such as churches looking for tutsis (Hotel Rwanda) . During these attacks people were killed mainly using Machetes, but those women who were not killed were raped, and impregnated, some would then end up catching many different sexually transmitted diseases (Rwandan Genocide). About 800,000 people were killed in a span of 3 months, all

Happened over the span of about 12 years killing about 6 million people, but had about 17 million victims. Unlike the Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust was against many different groups such as Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s witness, and the disabled(Rosenberg 1). The Nazis were mainly after those who were different from Germans in any way. The holocaust started after World War II, due to the fact that the Anti-Semites blamed Jews for their defeat( History Holocaust 1). Those Jews who stayed in Germany were not safe but those who left did not have to worry about being captured. (History Holocaust 1). Jews who stayed and were captured either had to comply to the wishes of the Nazis or they were either murdered or sent to camps. There were many camps placed all over Germany, and each camp had its own liability. Concentration camps forced people to work with little to no food, and were given 3 hours to sleep but were placed in crowded places. Extermination camps also known as death camps, people were killed in large groups and they were killed at a fast rate( History Holocaust 1). In either camp people were going to end up dying because in Concentration camps they were worked to death, and in Extermination camps it was automatic. Hitler ended up committing suicide and soon after German forces started evacuation death camps, and Soviet Union troops had arrived. These events made it hard for