PDF-(EBOOK)-We Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (Genocide,

During a onehundredday period in 1994 Hutus murdered between half a million and a million Tutsi in Rwanda The numbers are staggering the methods of killing were unspeakable Utilizing personal interviews with trauma survivors living in Rwandan cities towns and dusty villages We Cannot Forget relates what happened during this period and what their lives were like both prior to and following the genocideThrough powerful stories that are at once memorable disturbing and informative readers gain a critical sense of the tensions and violence that preceded the genocide how it erupted and was carried out and what these people faced in the first sixteen years following the genocide. Rights, Dialogue and Historical Memory. Ben Dorfman. Aalborg University. Denmark. …”you can’t avoid human rights” (. Cmiel. 2004: 117). …the “age” of rights (. Bobbio. 1996). …a human rights “life-world” (Dorfman 2012). Genocide- the deliberate systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious or national group. Examples of Genocide throughout history. Rwanda. Kosovo. Irish Famine. Armenian . Aim: What was the impact of the tragic events in Rwanda? . Do Now:. What does the word “genocide” mean?. Write about a time and place where “genocide” occurred.. What is Genocide?. Genocide means actions committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.. Rights, Dialogue and Historical Memory. Ben Dorfman. Aalborg University. Denmark. …”you can’t avoid human rights” (. Cmiel. 2004: 117). …the “age” of rights (. Bobbio. 1996). …a human rights “life-world” (Dorfman 2012). By: Cecilia, Elizabeth, and Anton 802. By: Cecilia. Introduction to Rwandan Genocide. What was the Rwanda Genocide ? . The . Rwanda Genocide involved the Hutus and the Tutsis. From April to July 1994, people of the Hutu ethnic majority killed approximately 800,000 people, a large percentage of the Tutsis ethnic minority. The genocide began by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal . Perpetrators. When: April 6, 1994 – July 15, 1994. Who: Hutu-led government and Hutu extremists. Theoneste. . Bagosora. (1941-present). Chief of Staff, Ministry of Defense. Established . Interahamwe. (a) Killing members of the group. (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group. (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. (CNLG). KWIBUKA23 AND THE FIGHT AGAINST GENOCIDE DENIAL AND IDEOLOGY. Presented . by:. Jean-Damascène Gasanabo, PhD. Director General. Research and Documentation Center on Genocide. CNLG. Berlin, 7 April 2017. Dr. Julia . Viebach. The Data Dialogue: When Research Crosses Borders, Oxford 29 September 2016. Outline of Research. Two Interlinked . P. rojects. : . Memory . and Transitional . Justice in . Rwanda. . on April 6, 1994, and for . the next . hundred days, up to 800,000 Tutsis were killed by Hutu militia using clubs and machetes . It was sparked . by death of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on April 6, 1994. What is Genocide?. The word has a specific meaning. Genocide is. Acts committed. With the intent. To destroy (in whole or in part). A group of people. Based on a specific characteristic of that group, such as. Rwanda. History/facts:. 85% of Rwandans are Hutus but for most of Rwandan history the country was dominated by the Tutsi minority.. Tutsi in early Rwandan society were in charge of the cattle while Hutu tended the land. . of 1994 . By: Abby, Bryce, Jose . Date it Began . It lasted 100 days and in that time between 500,000 and one million Rwandan Tuties where murdered . Cause of conflict . Causes of the conflict arose from the tensions between the religious groups called the Hutu and Tuitses.. onomic stressors during a ten year period. In this section I will inve ethnic violence: the symbolist political theory developed by Political Science scholar Stuart Kaufman, and the rational choice th