PPT-Rwanda Genocide

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 800000 people a large percentage of the Tutsis ethnic minority The genocide began by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal . On July 22 1995 I went to Ntarama about an hour and a half by car from Kigali on a dirt road going south toward the Burundi border We arrived at a village church made of brick and covered with iron sheets Outside there was a wood and bamboo rack bea 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 . UN Peacekeeping. Josh . H. ombrebueno. Background. Before the 1960’s, Rwanda was ruled by the country of Belgium. The Belgians favoured the ethnic group known as the “Tutsis”, who made up 15% of the nation’s population, because they looked more European than the other ethnic group known as the “Hutus”.. Project report. BCM390, “Media, war and peace,” autumn session, 2013. University of Wollongong. The project report had two components. For details of the assignment see . http://www.bmartin.cc/classes/BCM390_13outline.pdf. 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.. 552 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Rwanda rarely commanded front-page news as it was now doing, and I could look forward to a departure from the daily monotonous routine. As it so happens, I was on my way to W The Holocaust and Rwanda. Genocide. the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group. Examples: Holocaust, Rwanda, Armenians, Bosnia, Sudan. Concentration Camp for Bosnian Muslims and Croats. 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. (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. 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