In six pages this paper discusses the Tutsis and Hutus conflict that resulted in the devastating Rwandan massacre of 1994. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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powerful and disturbing book, written by Philip Gourevitch of the New York Times, followed the terrible trail of genocide committed by the Hutu against their Tutsis neighbors in 1994. For
100 days following the ousting of Rwandas longtime Hutu dictator Juvenal Habyarimana, all Hutus - from militiamen and policemen to ordinary, everyday citizens - set out to exterminate all trace
of Tutsi, with the result being the death of between 800,000 and 1 million Tutsis and Hutu opponents killed. According to critics horrified by the event, the international community stood
by idly while the carnage went on - and some governments even acted in a manner to encourage the genocide. In a
sense, no one did anything to prevent the slaughter. Unfortunately, rather than being an exception in this case, there are plenty of examples throughout history in which the same thing
has happened. Background Gourevitchs book, based on interviews and research, attempted to capture the reasons for the genocide and the aftermath of
the event. In the book, and in interviews conducted with Gourevitch, a different picture of Rwanda emerges than one in which age-old rivalries came to fruition. Instead, Gourevitch painted a
picture of a nation that was defined by politics, rather than ethnicities, and how those politics and policies managed to destroy one-tenth of a countrys population. This paper will examine
the background of the Hutu massacre and determine how - and even if - it could have been avoided. According to Gourevitch,
genocide in any form has an identity (Gourevitch). In Hitlers Germany it was considered "The Final Solution." In Bosnia, it was considered "Ethnic Cleansing." And in Rwanda in 1994 it