This event caused thousands of Tutsis to migrate to Uganda because of rise of Hutu violence against Tutsi. Around 1990, Tutsi exiles know as the Rwandan Patriotic Front(RPF), attempted to invade Rwanda. The invasion is thwarted by the Rwandan army with the help of French and Belgium troops. The attempted invasion caused a civil war between the two ethnic groups for 3 to 4 year. During the civil war, Rwanda’s main export coffee goes through a recession
Anthropology Second Film Paper Assignment God Grew Tired Of Us In 1983 the civil war of North and South Sudan broke out because of years of fighting of the Arab North against the Black Christian and Animus South, religion and oil were the main reasons behind the fighting. In 1987, the Muslim government sent out an announcement to kill all male children in the South regardless of age. In order to survive the bloody war, thousands fled from Sudan to Ethiopia. When the Muslim government reached word of those who fled, the 86,000 men fled from Ethiopia to Kenya. The 12,000 men who were able to survive when they reached their destination were referred to as the “Lost Boys of Sudan”.
The rebels use the diamonds to fund their weapons. In the film Blood Diamond, innocent people are killed or forced to work slaves in the diamond rivers and children are taken away to become cruel, inhumane child soldiers. Director Edward Zwick uses techniques such as cross cutting with music, documentary style, close up and over-the-shoulder shots to demonstrate the strong idea of the exploitation of people for illegal conflict diamonds that fund the civil wars in Sierra Leonne. Firstly, Zwick uses cross-cutting and music to create a strong link between the West and Africa in the exploitation of people for diamonds. During the RUF invasion, cross cutting is used in conjunction with loud Hip Hop music and the screams of fear from innocent villagers.
A movie called Blood Diamond that shows the bloody story behind the “precious stones” in Africa. According to the messy situation in Africa, there are two types of armies due to the anarchy: the one is the Government Army and the other one is the Revolution Army (Campino). For terrorist organizations, diamonds are viewed as an ideal currency, due to the traditional closed nature of the diamond industry. They use diamonds to trade with buyers to get weapons and equipment. The way they get the diamonds is by slaughtering villages and capturing young men to excavate diamonds.
You could have never guessed that these children were tortured and tormented by the rebels. The Acholi Tribe has been brutally tortured for 20 years by the rebel force that calls them The Lord’s Resistance Army. The war has forced nearly 2 million Acholi people into government protected camps.
Every night American family saw graphic pictures of Zippo raids, bombings and killings. Almost every town and village in the America faced the problem of their young men being either killed or wounded in Vietnam * Others faced physiological problems such as post-traumatic stress * President Johnson ordered heavy air force bombing raids which led to deaths of thousands of Vietnamese civilians including women and children * More than 11 000 died in 1967 a further 16 500 died in 1968 ( American soldiers) * The My Lai massacre resulted in the murder of 397-504 civilians mainly women, children and the elderly. Many of the victims were raped and tortured * The horror of death maiming, burning, terror and unthinkable destruction of a small country on the evening news, coupled with the threat of the draft made it feel like nothing
Invaders, who were referred to as the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), took Solomon as prisoner, forcing he and other men of his village, to work in diamond mines in search for diamonds. While working in the diamond mines, Solomon discovers a large rare, pink diamond. The discovery of this diamond quickly unfolds into a bloody battle between the powerful and the powerless in a
Around the world, children are continuously being used as soldiers to fight the battles of many rebel forces and groups within a country. The Lord’s Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony throughout central Africa, is a militant group that uses the children of the area to go on killing rampages of the people of the Baganda people. It has been said that more than 30,000 children have been abducted from their homes and have been used to fight since the conflict between the Baganda and the Acholi people began over twenty years ago. (Provencher) The children are forced to raid villages and kill all things in sight, and are then rewarded for their actions in order to continue the cycle. The effects of this violation of human rights not only affects the children who are abducted, but also following generations.
Some diamonds have helped fund devastating civil wars in Africa, destroying the lives of 3.7 million people. Conflict diamonds are those sold in order to fund armed conflict and civil war. Profits from the trade in conflict diamonds, worth billions of dollars, were used by warlords and rebels to buy arms during the devastating wars in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sierra Leone. While the wars in Angola and Sierra Leone are now over and fighting in the DRC has decreased, the problem of conflict diamonds hasn't gone away. Diamonds mined in rebel-held areas in Côte d'Ivoire, a West African country in the midst of a volatile conflict, are reaching the international diamond market.
ECONOMIC THEORY IN THE MOVIES! BLOOD DIAMOND Blood diamond is a story about a fisherman, Solomon Vandy who is capture by the Rebels and forced to mine in the diamond fields under the control of Captian posion, while he son Dia is kidnapped and forced to join the rebels. At the Mine fields Solomon finds a diamond the size of a gold ball hides it and escape when the diamond fields were under attack. At the same time Danny Archer (a smuggler), is arrested to attempt to smuggle blood diamonds into Liberia. During this time together they discuss that they would have a trade the diamond Solomon found for Solomon’s family, which lead to an interesting ending.