In 1994, there was an unfortunate incidence which took place in Rwanda Republic. According to the record of United Nations, 800,000 to 1,071,000 people were killed in three months due to the genocide. This genocide is considered as the conflict between the two tribes in Rwanda—Hutus, carrying out the genocide, and Tutsis, having been massacred. Since it was really an amazing unfortunate event, many people in the world sympathized with that sad incidence. However, most people today think that we, as the citizen of the democratic society, are inconsequential to that genocide; it just happened because of the conflict of those two tribes in Rwanda. I strongly disagree with that idea, and in this research project, I claim that we are the part of cause of the Rwandan genocide. Why did the genocide happen? What is the purpose of genocide? What are people trying to achieve in carrying out genocide? What is even genocide? Finally, are we the cause of the incidents?
Christina Fisanick. (2004).
The Rwanda Genocide. Farmington Hills: Greenheven Press
Lyn S Graybill. (May 2004).
Ten Years After, Rwanda Tries Reconciliation. New York: Research Library Core, pg. 202
On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying Rwandan president Habyarimana and Brundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down just outside Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Then the killing began early in the morning on April 7 and quickly spread throughout the country. These two source talks about the actual fact about the Rwandan genocide: when it happens, how many people had been involved, and etc. Since what written in this book is all about the facts and statistics, Fisanick provides us certainly objective information.
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We are in a world of uncertainty and we can only guess and make predictions about what tomorrow will bring us. The book 1984 by George Orwell, was written in 1949 with his predictions about the future in 1984, thirty five years later. The part that interested me the most was where Orwell explains how we will no longer think on our own and that our thoughts and emotions would be controlled by the " ...
History is sometimes subjective because people tend to make their convenient history. Therefore, the universal fact of the history certainly helps us to avoid being biased. Numbers, date, and other information about the actual facts, although they cannot always help us to answer the research questions, they are actual information so that being quite accurate. However, we still should consider that even statistics sometimes are changed by people as they want.
Michael Mann. (2005).
The Dark Side of Democracy. Los Angels: University of Calfornia.
According to Mann, ethnic cleansing is essentially “modern”; although not unknown in previous history, it became more frequent and deadly in modern times. Modern in this case means the existence of democratic society. He claimed that genocide happens due to the expanding of democratic society.
His claim really supports my thesis: people in democratic society are consequential to genocide. However, Mann occasionally seems to amalgamate democracy and capitalism. This definition issue between them is also one of the hardest assumptions of my research project. Also, he provided several example of the detail of genocide. From those examples, we can infer that all genocide is diverse. They all have quite various, different backgrounds. As a result, this book provides me the next question; what is genocide?
Anthony F. Lang Jr. (April 2002).
Global governance and genocide in Rwanda. New York: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
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Bernard Lewis is Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, and Long-Term Member of the Institute for Advance Study, Princeton University. He was educated in the University of London, primarily but not entirely at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where He took both his B. A. (Honors in History) and his Ph. D.His B. A. degree was in History with special reference to ...
In fact, the United Nation does not define the incident of Rwanda, 1994, as a”genocide”. Laug claimed that since UN is a complicated institution, they were practically unable to classify the Rwandan occurrence as genocide. This article questions UN how they should be responsible, and shows the difficulty of the definitions between genocide and civil-war.
Since genocide is considered as a worldwide issue, the United Nation is regarded to be responsible to resolve genocide. Therefore, UN’s determination and definition is really important for people in the world; it affects all the social norms in each country. Although the term of genocide is well used as an ethnic cleansing, UN General Assembly defined genocide as “Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the particular group.” Considering this complexity of the definition of the term genocide, in this research project, the clear statement of the description of the term genocide should be needed.
Marlise Simons. (December 2005).
A Belgian Mystery: Rwandan Who Aided Tribunal Genocide Is Found Dead in a Canal. New York: New York Times
Juvenal Uwilingiyimana, who had been commerce minister and the head of the national parks in Rwanda, was missing, and has been found dead. This article provides the specific consequence of Rwandan genocide. Uwilingiyimana, who was regarded as the most directly consequential person has been dead. As a result, this article also presents the question; who or what is responsible to Rwandan genocide?
If there was an only person who is entirely cause of the genocide, this issue wouldn’t be so complicated. However, since this is a social issue, there are many factors which conducted Rwandan genocide, and different perspective. Generally, people tend to desire to make a certain reason or cause in order to make the problem understandable. But I think we should have as many perspectives as we can, so that we can get closer to the truth of the history. This incidence is just a process of solving the Rwandan genocide issues.
