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Late 1950s Rwandan Independence Hutus Rejoiced Transferred with attacks on Tutsis 1930s Belgians issued ID cardsTRANSCRIPT
The Genocide of Rwanda
By: Matt Jorgensenhttp://www.menwhokilledme.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/rwanda-3717-r10.jpg
Population
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• 7 million people total• 85% Hutu• 14% Tutsi• 1% Twa
Late 1950s• Rwandan Independence• Hutus Rejoiced• Transferred with attacks on Tutsis
1930s
• Belgians issued ID cards
• President Juvénal Habyarimana was assassinated on April 6, 1994
• Unleashed Horrifying Events
Change of Government
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Propaganda
• Broadcasts told Hutus to “defend themselves”
• Hutu were told the Tutsi were to blame for poverty
• Ideology said Tutsis were foreign, had no right to live in Rwanda
• Newspapers and radio (1990-1994)
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Hutu-Tutsi Conflict
• Nothing to do with language or religion.• Class warfare• Tutsi from Ethiopia, Hutu from Chad• Assassination of President Habyarimana
sparked the extermination of Tutsis• Widespread sexual violence against Tutsi
women
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United Nations
• The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was established on December 8, 1948.
• More than 20 countries ratified the UNPPCG
• UN Peacekeeping forces arrived by the end of 1993. Months behind schedule.
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Raphael Lemkin
• Polish-Jewish Scholar• Fled Nazi-occupied Poland• “Genocide”
– Acts committed with intent to destroy– Didn’t exist before 1944
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“What is Genocide?”
• Killing or causing serious bodily harm to members of a race or religion
• Intent to destroy a national, ethical, racial or religious group.
• Preventing birth from members of the group and forcibly transferring children of the group.
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People Killed
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