Collaborating to preserve and disseminate testimonies of child survivors of the 1994 genocide in rwanda. Churches were a major site for massacres, and many christians par tieipated in the slaughter, including church personnel and lay leaders. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. In this paper i will investigate the true motivation of the 1994 rwandan genocide as more than just social divide and ethnic hatred between the hutu and the tutsi. A report on the banality of evil, new edition 1994. The colonial power further polarized the groups by classifying rwandans into ethnic groups and making it obligatory for them to carry ethnic identity cards. During the rwandan genocide of 1994, members of the hutu ethnic majority in the eastcentral african nation of rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the tutsi minority. The genocide in rwanda, like all genocides, was a complex phenomenon that resulted from a combination of longterm structural factors as well as more immediate decisions taken by powerful actors. An explanation is then offered of these crimes, based on an analysis of certain ecological, economic, cultural and political factors specific to rwanda, but shared to. Chutrh involvement in the genocide can be explained in part because of the historic link. She has a master of laws from mcgill university, for which her thesis research involved extensive interviews in rwanda, including with. Trustees of boston university, boston university african studies center.
Pdf causes of rwandan genocide and how it could be. The 1994 rwanda genocide was the result of an economic crisis, civil war, population growth and a struggle for state power. Americas secret role in the rwandan genocide news the. In an attempt by the hutu regime to annihilate each and every tutsi, between 500,000 to 800,000 or even 1,000,000 tutsis were killed at the hands of hutus. Americas secret role in the rwandan genocide a worker of the murambi genocide memorial shows the skulls of victims of the 1994 genocide, near butare, rwanda. This ideologically driven genocide is a clear example of state sponsored massmurder. Introduction this paper aims to discuss and examine the causes of the 1994 rwandan genocide. Christian churches were deeply implicated in the 1994 genocide of ethnic tutsi in rwanda. Just before and during the 1994 genocide, hutu political leaders insisted on the importance of protecting the gains of the revolution, which. Pdf this case study considers military and internaional political responses to the april 1994 conflict between the rwandan patriotic front. In just three months, an estimated 800,000 people were massacred in the rwandan genocide of 1994. Human rights watch genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity a digest of the case law of the international criminal tribunal for rwanda.
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