Victims of the genocide are pictured above.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1288230.stm
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Mass Murder
Within hours of the plane being shot down murder had begun. The first murders where military officials, politicians, and businessmen, but quickly everyone joined in. Radio propaganda helped form an unofficial militia group called Interahamwe, which at is strongest had 30,000 members. Solidiers and police officials gave incentives to Hutu citizens, such as money and food, to kill their neighbor Tutsis. The Hutus wished to destryoy the entire Tutsi population. 800,000 men, women, and children where brutally murded in Rwanda, for simply being a Tutsi. Many of these murders where graphic and not quick and painless, mainly being done with blunt objects and blows to the head. The day after the murder of Habyarimana the RPF once again began assulting the government forces of Rwanda. Rwanda's government collasped after, in July, the RPF captured Kigali, and deckared a ceasefire.
Victims of the genocide are pictured above.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1288230.stm
Victims of the genocide are pictured above.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1288230.stm
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The thought that 800,000 people could be murdered without any help from other countries is terrifying. And although the conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis is understandable, 800,000 murders with blunt objects are hard to fathom. It seems silly to me that no one stepped in to help, especially the U.N., which had the power to stop this. This is very different from my genocide because there seemed to be no strategy behind it, just kill them all. My genocide had careful planning and occurred on a special day. Regardless, this genocide was much more massive.
ReplyDeleteEven though the genocide you chose to right about was much more strategic it was still brutal and especial bad because it was on a holy day, but I guess when you get to the point that you're killing innocent lives for their religions you have no respect for religion. Even so, the genocide in rawanda wasn't just random and their was plenty of planning involved in the starting of, and how to get people involved in it, planning that the U.S knew about and chose not to do anything about, even before the genocide had begun.
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