Articles for tag: Hutu, Rwanda, Tutsi

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Movie Review: Hotel Rwanda

In America, children grow up learning that war is the greatest evil mankind can inflict on one another. This message is almost ingrained at birth and becomes not an opinion, but a matter of fact. Yet, the people of Rwanda know otherwise. Bernard Shaw once wrote that “the worst sin towards our fellow man is ...

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The Dian Fossey Story

It is well believed by many individuals around the world that animals are some of the most sacred species on the planet. This theory held true to Dian Fossey, an animal rights activist who devoted her life to ending the innocent poaching of gorillas in Rwanda. Dian Fossey was born on January 16, 1932 , ...

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A History of Rwanda’s Genocide: Hutu Vs. Tutsi

The Rwandan genocide of 1994 wasn’t an isolated event. It was the most horrific in a string of mass murders perpetrated by the Hutu against the Tutsi, and vice versa, since 1962, when Belgium granted independence to Rwanda and Burundi, two neighboring nations in Africa’s Great Lakes region. Who’s a Hutu, Who’s a Tutsi? Together, ...

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The ‘real’ Hotel Rwanda Hero – Genocide Revisited

“The UK the US the whole world decided to abandon a whole nation to thugs, to thieves, to killers, to gangsters…..without any witness from the international communities Rwandans took machetes and started to butcher each other for 100 days without any witness. On April 15th a week after the genocide started I saw the last ...