HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Interahamwe, Jean Kambanda, Hutu Ten Commandments
23 Apr 2017
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The world community did not respond to the rwandan genocide until the genocide was over and the goals of the genocide committers had been achieved. Its history and context leading up to the genocide are things very few people know about. Thus, when the genocide occurred, there is a danger of interpreting the genocide as a unimaginable horror that was caused by savage behaviour. The roots of the genocide are to be found in the antagonistic relationship between two ethnic groups the tutsi and the hutu. This ethnic division extends long into the past, but there was a perception that the tutsi were not considered to be natives of the area. The premise was that they may have migrated from the horn of africa" or east africa (include. The belief is that the tutsi migrated from this part of africa to the rwandan nation.
