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    I can't experience how much stress, energy and time was put on you during the Rwandan Genocide. The U.N kept their heads up and never gave up and continued to protect the best they can. I thank you for your actions with the genocide. You and the UN even made strange decisions but I know that the UN including yourself tried your hardest and continued to do so. Even after President Habyarimana was shot down by their own people, and Prime Minister Agathe was shot and killed in her own house. You still

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    The Armenian Genocide: The Armenians are a group of people who were attacked repeatedly throughout history, gained and lost territory, and were subject to discrimination. The highest level of discrimination ever demonstrated is genocide. These discriminatory acts toward the Armenians first arose after the First Balkan War of 1912 tore Europe apart and broke the bonds between previously united countries (Cooper and Akcam par. 7). During the decline of the Ottoman Empire, Armenians banded themselves

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    Another issue that arose during the genocide that is important was the fact that during the genocide many women were raped while men were out on killing sprees. Many of those women who were raped contracted HIV/AIDS. The medicine to treat HIV/AIDS is too expensive for the people of Rwanda to afford, so many have died. Some of the women who were raped did not contract HIV/AIDS but still struggle due to having friends that contracted it or were impregnated and are now raising children of their rapists

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    The genocide started with the assassination of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira, when the their plane was shot down on April 6, 1994. The current President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, was suspected to have influenced this assassination because he was the leader of a rebel Tutsi group and Habyarimana was a Hutu. Due to his death the Hutu rebel groups, such as the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), arose because they had felt threatened

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    The Armenian Genocide was one of the biggest genocides of all time, even bigger than the holocaust. The Armenians were the first to say that Christianity as state religion. The Ottoman Empire had taken control of Armenia during the 15th century, and they were disrespected for years and years on due to religious differences (Christians and Muslims), and the lack of respect culminated and peaked during 1915-1918. Pierpali states, “As the empire dramatically declined in territory and population, conditions

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    The radio was utilized to not only list the location of specific Tutsis to be targeted, but to also justify the genocide. Radio hosts discussed discrimination the Hutus suffered under the power of the Tutsis. Strong connotations describing Hutus as slaves during colonization painted the Rwandan genocide as a type of slave rebellion. Radio stories were used to anger the Hutus and channel that anger into action. Radio was also used to dehumanize Tutsis by calling them “cockroaches,” making acts of

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    Government in the 20th century between 1915-1918 and how it was caused and also if there was a resolution to this conflict or has it continued through to modern times. INTRO The armenian genocide happened between 1915-1918 where 1.5 million Armenians were massacred at the hands of the Turkish government. This genocide came about in 1915 due to the muslim government threatened by the Christian Armenians who were thriving in a society that was forced to exclude them. Suspicions grew that the armenians

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    known as genocide which is the deliberate destruction of a national, racial or a religious group (Winston Dictionary). Genocide is universal rather than limited to one time and one group of people. The Catholics in Ireland were being threatened and eliminated by the Puritans. The typical Irish lifestyle

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    The Rwandan Genocide The Rwandan Genocide was a mass slaughter of the Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government. Many were killed over the one hundred day period. This not only affected Rwanda, but many neighbouring countries. In the end, over two million refugees fled to Rwanda to different countries. The genocide was also called the genocide against the Tutsi. An estimated five hundred thousand - one million Rwandans were killed during the one hundred day period from

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    The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 was one of the worst crimes in human history, which saw the brutal killing of almost a million Rwandan Tutsis and moderate Hutus. (Khan) The genocide had took place in the context of the Rwandan Civil War, an ongoing conflict beginning in 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which was largely composed of Tutsi refugees whose families had fled to Uganda following earlier waves of Hutu violence against the Tutsi. The Arusha Accords

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