Essays on Rwandan Genocide

Rwanda. The name of a country which is now only known for an unofficial and blatantly ignored genocide. One million people massacred in the space of one hundred days, yet nothing was done to help. In Levi-Strauss’s article ‘A sea of grief is not a...

Languages French, English, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili are the official languages that are spoken by the Republic of Rwanda. With more than 12 million speakers, Kinyarwanda is a Bantu ethnic language in various countries including: the Demographic of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. In Rwanda, the only...

For roughly one hundred days in 1994, brutal killings took place in Rwanda by the hand of morally corrupted Hutu soldiers. An estimated one million lives were lost, almost wiping out the Tutsi race. The stories told by survivors like Immacule Ilibagiza elicit heart-wrenching emotions...

The “Rwandan Genocide” happen between April and June of 1994. During just 100 days 800,000 Rwandans were killed. Some of the reasons the Genocide occurred since 1916 when Belgian colonists arrived, and produced identity cards in which Tutsis were considered to be superior to the...