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Rwanda, Ethnicity, and Genocide
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ethnicity
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Does this mean ethnicity is not “real”?
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The Power of Identity
Violence today world wide is largely ethnic violence, wars, ethnic cleansing, genocide mainly related to ethnic and religious divisions, not mainly class struggle.
While “secular states” are the goal of US policy, ethnicity and religion are major ways we organize meaning.
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How did the Middle East get its boundaries?
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ethnicity
The uncertainties of globalization reinforce localized, ethnic identity
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Where is Rwanda?
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Hutu and Tutsi in pre-colonial times
Hutu and Tutsi have always spoken the same language
Tutsi meant warrior/farmer Hutu meant peasant While Tutsis generally are taller and lighter
skinned, intermarriage through the years has rendered identification by sight impossible
Hutus, by accumulating enough property, could become Tutsi. The distinctions were fluid
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German and Belgian Rule Both colonial powers sharpened the distinction
between Tutsi and Hutu so it represented class, or more properly caste distinctions.
Tutsis were a neo-colonial ruling class. The Germans in 1914 had only 5 civil and 24
military officers in Rwanda. In other words they depended on the Tutsi
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UN Convention on Genocide
ARTICLE 1
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace, or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
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Article Two
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated
to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the
group;(a) Killing members of the group; In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following
acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial or religious group as such:
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What happened in Rwanda?
900,000 murdered in 100 days
That is about 9,000 per day, every day, for more than three months
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US Defense Department memo during the genocide
“Be careful. Legal at State was worried about this yesterday — Genocide finding could commit [the US government] to actually ‘do something.’ ”
May 1, 1994
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Who is Richard Clarke?
Critic of Bush policy on Iraq. Managed US policy on Rwanda and staunchly opposed any intervention and demanded the removal of UN peacekeeping forces.
When UNAMIR officers said 5000 troops could stop the killing, the UN, under US pressure, withdrew all peacekeepers.
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Why so much violence today?
We are still experiencing the consequences of colonialism and the ethnic division of the world by the colonial powers
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Progress in Africa
There are more phone lines in Manhatten or Tokyo than all of sub-saharan Africa
Combined export earnings of 45 African countries (500 million people) declined from $50 billion in 1980 to $36 billion in 1990
World imports from Africa declined from 3.7% in 1980 to 1.4% in 1995
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Africa and Globalization (2)
Food imports have grown 10% since 1980 in a continent that was once a food exporter
After a hefty growth of industry in the 1960s and a small increase in the 1970s, Africa’s industrial economy collapsed in the 1980s and had negative growth
International aid accounts for 12.4% of GNP in Africa; 2/3 of GNP in Mozambique and half in Somaila
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Africa and Globalization (3) External debt went from 97% of the value
of exports in 1980 to 324% in 1990 External debt rose from 30.6% in 1980 to
78.7% of GNP in 1990. Direct foreign investment is only 2% of all
DFI to the developing world.
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Does civilization mean less violence?