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Rwanda and the World
Remote to the United States and seemingly isolated form all of the world, Rwanda has fallen victim to perhaps one of the grossest atrocities experienced in human history. Rwanda and its civilians have faced multiple inflictions of depravity, hatred, and tragedy yet despite the magnitude of these tribulations, much of the world remains ignorant to the hardships endured by the Rwandan peoples and their continual struggle to restore their broken land. While racial tensions among the Rwandan civilians were the main cause for this terror, indifference concerning the Rwandan situation made genocide an almost inevitable outcome and should subsequently rest some guilt on all of those who were unconcerned or unwilling to prevent these crimes. Raphael Lemkin defined genocide as ?the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group,? however the confinement of such crimes within a nation should not suggest a lack of trepidation among the rest of the world. Contrary to some beliefs, what occurs within a separate political/national/cultural realm not only affects the people within that nation directly, but also inadvertently impacts the entire world. Therefore, it seems incredibly outrageous to learn that as carnage and death tormented a nation, nothing was being done to stop it. The inaction of the entire world brought upon the expense and loss of Rwandan civilization.
It wasn?t until just before the liberation of Rwanda from its Belgian rulers, (around the 1930?s), that the country first began to experience the tension which would soon engulf the entire nation. Much of this tension was instigated through European colonizers within Rwanda who, impressed with not only the physical continuances of these indigenous people, but also the remarkable intellectual capabilities of some of the Rwandans, separated the Rwandan peoples into two distinct groups; the Hutu and the Tutsi. Of the Rwandans who, according to the European explorers,...
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