https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0 en-us 2020-03-10 18:34:14 UTC 2023-05-19 14:49:34 UTC hello@padlet.com sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457857856 General Romeo Dallaire, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwandan, made an urge request to be granted permission to raid the Hutu weapons caches. However, he was denied permission due to the dangers. ]]> 2020-03-10 18:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457857856 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457861434 World leaders condemned the violence in Rwanda, but did nothing to stop it. They did not want to be responsible for intervening under the Genocide Convention, in which they have to prevent and punish genocide. ]]> 2020-03-10 18:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457861434 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457865920 The US was reluctant to get involved in certain conflicts usually involving ethnic strife because of their failures in Somalia. The US troops were killed and dragged through the streets of the capital city of Mogadishu.]]> 2020-03-10 18:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457865920 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457880745 President Clinton apologized for his administration's part in disregarding the genocide.]]> 2020-03-10 19:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457880745 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457982352 During the Belgian colonial control starting in 1916, the Belgians favored the Tutsis over the Hutus. The Tutsis were given educational privileges, and government jobs that the Hutus did not receive. The Belgians issued identity cards on the Rwanda citizens, which indicated if the citizens were Tutsi or Hutu. This colonial favoritism towards the Tutsis contributed greatly towards the Hutu and Tutsi conflict and increased tensions.]]> 2020-03-10 22:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457982352 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457983309 Once Rwanda was granted independence in 1962 violence started to break out between Tutsis and Hutus. Hutus took charge of the new government in Rwanda, while the Tutsis fled to neighboring countries and created the RPF - the Rwanda Patriotic Front - whose goal was to overthrow the President Habyarimana and to secure their right and safety for their return to their homeland.  With the RPF, the Tutsis demanded a share of power over Rwanda. ]]> 2020-03-10 22:16:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457983309 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457984142 In April 1994 a plane that the Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana. The Hutus immediately blamed the Tutsis, and started their revenge. Some speculate that the Hutu extremists were the ones to shoot the plane down in order to start their genocide plan and increase hostility toward the Tutsis.]]> 2020-03-10 22:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457984142 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457987462 Identity cards were issued to document ethnicity. They were later used in 1944 to identify the Tutsis by the Hutus. ]]> 2020-03-10 22:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457987462 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457989142 Broadcasts repeatedly labeled the Tutsis as "cockroaches" and "devils."]]> 2020-03-10 22:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457989142 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457989887 Civilian death squads called Interhamwe formed and trained prior to the start of the genocide.]]> 2020-03-10 22:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457989887 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457990423 Hutu extremists killed thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Anyone who weren't extremely against the Tutsis were killed.]]> 2020-03-10 22:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457990423 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457990843 Hutu extremists encouraged all Hutus to kill the Tutus using machetes or clubs. Radios were used to instruct civilians on how to kill the Tutsis.]]> 2020-03-10 22:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/457990843 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458040848 Local and national elections have been held in which both Hutus and Tutsis fill the top government positions. ]]> 2020-03-11 01:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458040848 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458043734 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has tried more than fifty of the top organizers of the genocide, including high ranking conspirator Theoneste Bagosora. He was sentenced to life in prison. ]]> 2020-03-11 01:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458043734 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458047946 The Rwandan government has struggled with putting thousands of lower ranking people on trial. By 2000, over 120,000 people were awaiting trial in prison on charges related to the genocide. In 2004, the government established the gacaca court system, which were traditional, community-based courts focused on truth and reconciliation and aim to bring justice and healing to the remaining victims and perpetrators. ]]> 2020-03-11 01:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458047946 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458050944 The Rwandan government insists that if ethnic differences can be learned, then 'ethnicity does not exist' can be taught as well. Ethnicity has been removed from school books and rubbed off of government identity cards. There are no more mentions of Hutus or Tutsis.]]> 2020-03-11 01:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458050944 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458053089 Like any other country with a traumatic story, Rwanda has to deal with the daunting task of coming to terms with this incident. A genocide can only be processed slowly, but small steps are being taken to recognize and come to terms with the events of 1994. Museums and memorials have been constructed at genocide sites throughout Rwanda!]]> 2020-03-11 01:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458053089 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458055140 When the Hutu fighters who fled to Congo return to Rwanda, they are sent to re-education camps. Here, they are taught that ethnicity does not exist and some basic carpentry skills. ]]> 2020-03-11 01:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458055140 sukim https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458057599 The Gacaca Court System tried more than 1 million ordinary people. Defendants were often given shorter sentences for confessing and were encouraged to apologize to victims' families. The Gacaca judges had the power to declare life imprisonment.]]> 2020-03-11 01:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sukim/f5fakt3mpn0/wish/458057599