Rwandan Genocide Review

Description

1990/91 The Rwandan army begins to train and arm civilian militias known as interahamwe ("Those who stand together")

What Stage is This?O Organization

DescriptionO Early warnings of the Rwandan genocide were

ignored because policy makers perceived it as a “civil war”, denied the facts, and decided not to intervene, preventing US and UN lawyers from calling the killing “genocide.” Early reinforcement of UNAMIR could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but “group-think” precluded consideration of direct military intervention by the US and allied forces, though they were near Rwanda and rescued their own nationals. Unwilling to financially and militarily support a reinforced UNAMIR, the U.S., U.K. and U.N. Security Council ordered UNAMIR to leave Rwanda, because they did not consider Rwandan lives worth saving at the risk of their own troops.

O - Gregory H. Stanton

What Stage is this?O denial

Description

Rwandans were labelled in terms of their race on passports and personal identification papers

What Stage is This?O symbolization

DescriptionO November 1992 Prominent Hutu

activist Dr. Leon Mugusera appeals to Hutus to send the Tutsis "back to Ethiopia" via the rivers.

What Stage is This?O organization

DescriptionO The ethnic groups in Rwanda the

Tutsi, Hutu and Twa are actually very similar - they speak the same language, inhabit the same areas and follow the same traditions

What Stage is This?O Classification

DescriptionO Messages of hate were broadcast

over the radio, encouraging the killing of Tutsi and opponents to the Hutu regime. The messages portrayed Tutsis as evil cockroachesand rats.

What Stage is This?O Dehumanization

Description

Extremist radio station, Radio Mille Collines, begins broadcasting exhortations to attack the Tutsis.

What Stage is This?O organization

Description

The Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR) and the interahamwe set up roadblocks

What Stage is This?O Preparation

DescriptionO Almost one million people were killed

during 100 days of genocide.

What Stage is This?O Extermination

DescriptionO 1926 Belgians introduce a system of

ethnic identity cards differentiating Hutus from Tutsis.

What Stage is This?O symbolization

Description

Hutus from the president's home area of northern Rwanda are given overwhelming preference in public service and military jobs. This pattern of exclusion of the Tutsis continues throughout the '70s and '80s.

What Stage is This?O Dehumanization

DescriptionO 1973 Purge of Tutsis from

universities

What Stage is This?O polarization

DescriptionO April 30, 1994 The U.N. Security

Council spends eight hours discussing the Rwandan crisis. The resolution condemning the killing omits the word "genocide." Had the term been used, the U.N. would have been legally obliged to act to "prevent and punish" the perpetrators

What Stage is This?O Denial

DescriptionO A policy of ethnic quotas is

entrenched in all public service employment. Tutsis are restricted to nine percent of available jobs.

What Stage is This?O Polarization