Burundi

Jenna Biersch Mr. McDermott AP English 08/06/14 The Strength in What Remains Chapter One: The novel begins with introducing the character Deo who is from Burundi, which is located underneath Rwanda. The chapter begins with Deo travelling to New York in hopes of a new safe life in American. Jean, one of Deo’s wealthy friends, helps him escape the horrors of Bujumbura by paying for his plane ticket. Deo comes to America with two hundred and completely lost. He has never travelled on a plane and…

Family member: Aunt Angele Mukamusoni For this assignment I talked to my aunt Angele who was born in Rwanda in 1945. She is Rwandese. She was born when Rwanda was still a Belgium colony. It was called Rwanda-Urundi because it was Rwanda and Burundi were one country under the Belgium rule. However, Rwanda had its own King called Kigeri V. who ruled up to the time of Rwanda’s independence in 1962. According to her, it was a significant for Rwandan because they were no longer colonized and were…

place in which the Hutu took Rwanda by force. The next eight years became a time of crisis for the Tutsi as muyaga swept over the countryside. Thousands of Tutsi were killed, and many more were forced to flee to neighboring countries, including Burundi, the Congo and especially into Uganda. The late 1950’s and early 60’s were the first of the attempts of large-scale ethnic violence in…

The Rwandan genocide occurred in 1944. The Belgians were the ones who initially created a strong divide between the Tutsi and the Hutu, the two African groups living in Rwanda. In the 1930s, Belgium, the current ruling power, defined specific physical characteristics to differentiate between the Tutsis and the Hutus. The Tutsis were perceived as the superior group in comparison to the Hutus, so the Belgians saw them as partners in enforcing Belgium law. In 1933, the Belgians mad identity cards…

The film Hotel Rwanda is based on true events. It portrays the plight and suffering of Rwandans – mainly the Tutsi peoples and "moderate" Hutus – during the Rwandan genocide accurately. However, the film is under controversy because of suspicion surrounding the portrayal Paul Rusesabagina and United Nations peacekeeper Romeo Dallaire's actions in the movie. Although some parts of the plot may be inaccurate as they allegedly over exaggerate certain aspects of the genocide, it is still an…

In April of 1994 the Rwandan Genocide began which ended with the death of nearly 800,000 men, women and children. The genocide occurred in Central Africa between the Hutu and Tutsi people. The most devastated were from the Tutsi population. The duration of the genocide lasted approximately 100 days and each day an estimated 8,000 people were systematically brutalized, tortured and murdered. Families were torn apart and most were never reunited. The effects of the Rwandan Genocide will leave its…

Many people could never fathom events similar to the Holocaust during World War II with the systematic killings of millions of people. Unfortunately, in 1994 in the African country of Rwanda, that is precisely what happened. The death of the Rwandan President, Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, is what sparked the genocide in 1994. Blamed for this was the current President, Paul Kagame, who at the time of the genocide was the Leader of a Tutsi rebel group, and his close partners for carrying out of…

The Genocide On April 7, 1994 Rwandan armed forces killed 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers to discourage the international intervention in the genocide that began an hour ago. The Hutu extremist brutally murdered around one million civilian innocent Tutsis and moderate Hutus, making it the worst episode of ethnic genocide after World War II. The seeds of 1994 genocide war planted early in 1990 are when president began using anti-Tutsi talks to persuade Hutus for the genocide; this led to…

The State of Affairs in Africa has always created stereo-types as a doomed continent with unavoidable tribal conflict and ethnic cleavages. It’s hard to understand why there were so many wars and instability in Africa in the late 90’s. Over the last four decades, nearly twenty African countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa area have experienced at least one form of war. The biggest and deadliest war was the Rwandan genocide. Most of the wars occurred because of influences Europeans had on African…

Rwanda has been known as a place of major improvement in Africa in the past decade. It is a country seen by western society as a place that is prospering among many that appear hopeless. Rwanda has not always been this way, and in many ways, it is still struggling. In the past century this nation has gone through struggle after struggle. Rwanda was initially colonized by Germany in 1884 and remained a colony until 1919. After Germany’s defeat in World War I, the country was forced to…