Attacks among ethnic groups
Introduction
This writing seeks to critically analyze the genocide that occurred in the African country of Rwanda in 1994. The events took place between April 7 and July 15 of that year. The Hutu majority ethnic group began a brutal attack against the Tutsi minority, looking for its complete extermination. This act whose violence seemed to surprise the entire world, it is not an isolated act. Like all kinds of conflict, it has its reason and an entire antecedent that shows us what the steps were, the reasons, which led a group to commit such an atrocious act. Reasons that will be presented below.
It is important to previously know the socio-historical context to better understand the facts and the development of the problem until reaching a resolution, if there is. Although it is believed that the conflict began with the murder of the president of RwandAnd the classification of the inhabitants began, which were separated in ways and for equivocal reasons, and they were given privileges to a small sector of the population and all this ended in one of the greatest genocides that exists existing.
Developing
At that time, in Rwanda there were two groups of different ethnicities: the minority (14%) was formed by tutsis, and the remaining majority were the Hutus. The tutsis were chosen as upper ethnicity because they had physiognomic features more similar to Europeans, unlike Hutus, which were segregated and discriminated against. The Hutus began to be given the best jobs while the tutsis were given the least paid and minor jobs. This fact makes the division of the groups noticeable and begin to create extremist sides and political parties that supported them.
Such is the case of the Rwandés Patriotic Front (FPR), formed by Tutsis and Hutus rebel extremists of the Coalition for the Defense of the Republic (CDR). Both groups created after Rwanda’s independence, sought to have Rwanda’s control in an absolutist way, and for different issues, none could have power. It was not until in 1962, Rwanda declared his independence, and demanding equal rights, the Hutus took political control of the country. But after a few years, in 1973, Juvénal Habyarimana, belonging to the Hutus, takes the power of the country through a coup d’etat.
There were still resentments between the two ethnicities, but in 1993, an agreement was reached between Juvénal and the FPR guerrilla group, where a peace agreement would be signed, but its application was delayed by a time because the CDR did not accept theterms. On the night of April 6, 1994, the then president of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, dies when his plane is impacted by a missile. On the morning of April 7, Prime Minister Agathe Uwiligiimana and a group of ten Belgian soldiers in charge of their protection is murdered. After the murder of the Prime Minister, the wave of violence against the Tutsi is unleashed.
The rest of the Hutu begins to kill all Tutsi and who protects them. From April 7 to July 15, it is estimated that one million people were killed, 250.000 women were raped, 95.000 children were executed and about 400.000 were orphaned. The renowned radio station Mil Collines, together with other media, were responsible for spreading hate messages, inciting people to kill any Tutsi. On April 21, the United Nations Security Council gives the order to withdraw its Rwanda troops. It is a unanimous decision. Many people flee to neighboring countries.
For May 80% of the massacre had already been carried out. On June 23 the so -called turquoise operation begins, which seeks to return order to the country. This operation is left under the supervision of France, who use this operation to give logistics support to the Hutus and protect their government. Finally, in July 1994 the Ruandés Patriotic Front manages. And as vice president, Paul Kagame, member of the Tutsi ethnic group. In this conflict we can clearly see the repercussions of the invasion, exploitation and inhuman treatment of the so -called first world.
We can clearly see how for Europe the black body, brown or, in short, not white is simply an exploitation terrain, a mine where you can see and get rid of what remains. Not only does the conflict begin with the intervention of a European nation, but at the time of the conflict, the best action provided by European (guilty) powers was simply to look the other way. We believe that this problem is not isolated, since it has been replicated in many parts of the world, where Europe takes advantage because it believes to be a continent with intellectual, economic, religious and political supremacy.
According to foreign policy studies, “the United Nations created the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha (Tanzania). The ICTR followed the pattern marked by the post -conflict justice model of Nuremberg, focused on the exemplary accusation of a few chosen. During the last 20 years, the court has prosecuted 75 individuals.”From this starting point for solving the problem, we can clearly see what is wrong. Recreat.
According to the same magazine, the Rwanda government, led by the still current president Kagame, decided to take a different path: he stopped more than 100,000 people with insufficient or without any evidence;He also created a community court system, which were massive, all with the belief that if the problem was mass, then the solution would be in mass. It is very obvious why this solution would not help. It is practically impossible to judge many people at the same time and all for the same crime, since nothing would be reached.
conclusion
As we can see that it was currently. Where the problem is still present, but it is ignored. Similarly, so that a fair trial can be made, the entire context of the conflict would have to be analyzed, which would lead us to injustices and atrocities perpetrated by the Tutsi that, to date, have been totally unpunished. We believe that all the aggressors had to have arrested and tried individually, because only in that way there would be equitable justice and peace would reign in the country. Also, another thing that could have been done after courts.
It would be to create programs for (re) social adaptation for both the Hutus and the Tutsis, to deeply investigate their historical and cultural socio -cultural contexts, find similarities, teach them, have a dialogue, but above all, know their difference and still be able to find oneon the other, to be able to live in an intercultural space, with harmony. All this with the purpose of preventing any other types of altercations that could occur in the future.
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