The Rwanda Genocide goes agaisnt human rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights because it guarantees humanity to all but when the Belgian colonists arrived in 1916, they saw the two groups as distinct entities, and even produced identity cards classifying people according to their ethnicity, which is not freedom for all. This relates to the Holocaust because the Jews were classified by numbers which is also taking away their freedom and taking away their humanity.
The Rwanda Genocide denys the idea of humanism because they were all classified into one group with identity cards that classified them by ethnicity. When the Belgians considered the Tutsis as superior to the Hutus, the Tutsis enjoyed better jobs and educational opportunities than the Hutus. Therefore, they were all considered one group, not individuals, that wasn't equal so it wasn't humanism.
The victims of event weren't at all to blame because the Belgians came in and changed their way of life making them think that each group was better than the other, so tension rose between the groups and its ahrd to ignore your problems so they resorted to killing.
I do feel sorrow for the victims of the Rwanda Genocide because so many were killed in so little time. Also, there was only one person who tried to stop this, no one else had the courage to put his life on the line and I don't blame them because no one wanted to die. But at the same time, if they had negoatiated instead of killed them maybe things wouldn't have turned out so bad and not many people would have died.
Peace keeping efforts by the United Nations in sovereign countries is acceptable to me bacause it means they are trying to keep the peace and make sure nothing like the Genocide happens again, even if it means going to extreme measures to keep the peace.
If the U.N. wanted to step into the sovereignty of the U.S. it might be a problem because it's not their country to run and if they tried to take over it might lead to problems, even problems like the Genocide.
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This makes a lot of scence.I like the way you said everything. The rwanda Genocide was a very hard time in history. Its a shmae that people had to live liek this and couldnt do anything to change it.
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