This civil war finally ended in July when the RPF took control of Kigali the capital of Rwanda. The RPF declared a suspension of hostilities once the government caved in. As soon as the Hutu citizens got word that RPF has won the war over 2 million Hutus left Rwanda (United Human Rights “United Human Rights Council”). The government of Rwanda is now run by Tutsis and they continue to try to kill the Hutus to prevent another genocide on them. Even the world’s biggest peacekeeping force cannot stop the battling between the two ethnic groups to this day.
The genocide of Darfur is regarded as the only genocide of the 21st century. The genocide started in 2003 and since then has claimed over 400,000 lives and displaced over two million. The Sudanese government supported an Arab militia group called the Janjaweed who began the process of ethnic cleansing on the civilians of Darfur. This is included starvation, rape, and murder. The intent of this was to eradicate an entire people.
People are still dying and villages are still being destroyed. The question then arises as to “what is being done about it” and “is there being anything done about it?” The current Sudanese government continues to ignore what is going on in Darfur and refuses to take responsibility for its actions. They have not only ignored the problem but disrupt any actions or investigations that are ordered by the international community. There has been a lot of talk among both the international community as well as the United States on what to do about the conflict in Darfur. On April, 2006 the UN Security Council passed sanctions on high ranking members of the Sudanese government accusing them of war crimes against the Darfurian people.
The genocide in Darfur, Sudan has already caused hundreds of thousands of Darfuris to die and cause more than 2 million people to be homeless. The genocide began in early 2003 when members of two rebel groups revolted against the Sudanese government in Khartoum alleging systematic neglect of the inhabitants of Darfur. The two rebel groups are the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA). The government responded by launching an assault against these two rebel groups. Black Arabs were being discriminated against because they were black and they were being told that they weren't in the right religion.
Social differences have been very important and have directly caused genocide in Sudan. Arabs, supported by the government, have as their mission to “clean up” the country from black Christian society (“Genocide In Sudan” n.pag). This problem is not recent (“Genocide In Sudan” n.pag). Since decades, Arab Sudanese people have had the idea to exterminate all Christians from Sudanese territory (“Genocide In Sudan” n.pag). There had not been the correct excuse until a rebel group attacked Sudan’s capital (“A Death in Sudan” n.pag).
Adolf Hitler once said "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" before he sent out troops to massacre men, women and children in Poland and Germany (Tran 1). This shows that because the Turks had gotten away with their actions at the time, Hitler felt that he could get away with it too. Thankfully, Hitler was wrong because Armenians are still around, spreading the word about their cause today, 97 years later. But how do these Armenians keep their 97 year old cause contemporary?
His office is a dingy, barren shack that lacks electricity. Mr. Sindayigaya argues that many Rwandan children killed, or aided the killers, because they were told to or because they hoped to receive a gift or praise. ''I don't think a child of seven or eight years would have the consciousness to commit genocide,'' Sindayigaya says. ''To kill is possible; genocide is something else.'' Rwandans are having trouble distinguishing children who are guilty and responsible from those who are innocent and have been made scapegoats by genocide survivors seeking retribution.
Jake Knowles Mr. Dilmaghani American Studies, Period 2 5 June 2012 Rwandan Genocide & Kony 2012 In our world today, It's understandable that the United States military has done a fortune for our citizens and has protected us to the best they can but trying to expand and help other countries isn't such a bright idea. In October 1990, the RPF started an invasion of Rwanda. A National Security Archive Report points out five ways in which decisions made by the U.S. government contributed to the slow U.S. and worldwide response to the genocide(Garber). The U.S. have expanded even further to Africa to slow down Kony and destabilize their already unstable country, Syria. Our foreign policy should definitely be less active because we're just
Military Intervention led to the deaths of 18 American soldiers and subsequently shaped America’s foreign policy. In October 1993 United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) was set up to broker a ceasefire between armed Forces of the mainly Hutu Government of Rwanda and the Tutsi-led Rwandese Patriotic Front, but with a ‘token force’ of 270 soldiers the task was clearly impossible. The lack of international commitment was clearly effected by the events of Mogadishu and to make matters worse in May 1994 President Clinton enforced a Presidential Decision Directive (PPD) which limited US involvement in peacekeeping operations to situations in which American national security interests were at stake, evidently they believed their national security was not at stake in Rwanda. Clinton’s stance was echoed by Kofi Annan who was then the head of peacekeeping for the UN. Annan on January 11, 1994, ignored the advice of Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian UN force commander in Kigali who “sent a "most immediate" cable to UN headquarters in New York indicating that a top level trainer of the Interahamwe militia had come forward with information to the effect that he had trained seventeen hundred men, now scattered in groups of forty throughout Kigali.” This message which Dallaire speaks about in his book ‘Shaking hands with the Devil’ is nothing less that
Thought there are many human right issues, I believe one of the biggest issues today is genocide. Basically, Genocide in America is still a huge issues. The United States of America was built on a foundation of genocide against the Indigenous peoples of North America. The US habit of genocide has not died, but has transformed. We now have the killing of peaceful protesters in Ferguson, where it all began with a boy that got shot back in August.