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Can you think of a time when you saw someone being mistreated and you just stood by and watched?

Can you think of a time when you saw someone being mistreated and you just stood by and watched? Is it your responsibility to stand up to injustice?. Genocide in Rwanda. By Sam Irving. Genocide.

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Can you think of a time when you saw someone being mistreated and you just stood by and watched?

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  1. Can you think of a time when you saw someone being mistreated and you just stood by and watched? Is it your responsibility to stand up to injustice?

  2. Genocide in Rwanda By Sam Irving

  3. Genocide • Any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, or religious group, as such: • Killing members of the group; • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part; • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

  4. Imperialism in Africa • Europe and the U.S. divided Africa into 50 countries and claimed them for themselves in 1884. • Did not consider culture, history, or language. • Split ethnic groups and forced enemies together. • These divisions mostly remain.

  5. Colonial Africa 1914

  6. Africa Today

  7. Rwandan History • All people shared a common culture. • Belgian colonists divided Rwandans into “racial” groups, Hutu and Tutsi. • Why would they want to divide the Rwandans? • Tutsis were given power and Hutus were discriminated against.

  8. Determining Tutsi vs. Hutu

  9. Genocide in Rwanda • Majority Hutus took power after gaining independence from Belgium in 1962. • Resented Tutsi privilege • Began using Tutsis as scapegoats • Many Tutsi emigrated and formed militias abroad. • Hutu president was assassinated in 1994 & genocide began in Kigali.

  10. 800,000 people killed in 100 days. • 400,000 women raped.

  11. Key Groups • Interahamwe: Hutu militias • Rwandan Patriot Front (R.P.F.): Tutsi militia from abroad. • United Nation (U.N.) Troops: Peacekeepers with no power.

  12. Works Cited "Africa Map." Welcome to Africa. Web. 31 Oct 2010. <http://www.africatravelling.net/index.htm?main.htm~main>. "Colonial Africa 1914." Conference of Berlin. Web. 31 Oct 2010. <http://www.answers.com/topic/berlin-conference>. "Hotel Rwanda Poster." Web. 31 Oct 2010. "Rwanda: How the Genocide Happened." BBC NEWS. BBC, 18 Dec 2008. Web. 31 Oct 2010. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1288230.stm>. "Rwandan Genocide Survivor." Why Rwanda matters 10 years after the slaughter of 800,000 . Web. 31 Oct 2010. <http://www.usafricaonline.com/rwanda.genocideyears.html>. "Rwandan Machete." Propaganda of the Rwandan Genocide. Web. 31 Oct 2010. <http://www.trumanwebdesign.com/~catalina/analysis.htm>.

  13. "Rwandan Skulls." Rwanda Marks Genocide with Vigil. Web. 31 Oct 2010. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7988907.stm>. "Skulls." Rwandan Genocide. Web. 31 Oct 2010. <http://www.usm.maine.edu/~kuzma/security/projects/2002/carnes/Rwandan%20Genocide.index.htm>. "The International Legal Definition of Genocide." Prevent Genocide International. Prevent Genocide International, 11 Feb 2004. Web. 31 Oct 2010. <http://www.preventgenocide.org/genocide/officialtext.htm>.

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