Josh Freeman's Reflection

This is a horrible, terrifying thing that happened to the people of Rwanda. The Tutsis people did not deserve to die. As well as the Hutus people did not deserve to kill. It was mainly sparked by the death of Juvenal Habyarimana. He was the president on Rwanda when his plane was shot down on April 6th 1994. This is no reason for the Hutus people to kill nearly 800,000 Tutsis people. And this only lasted for 100 days.

Everyone said that no one ever wanted anything close to the Holocaust to happen again. But yet they let the Rwanda Genocide to happen in 1994. Although this isn’t the same as the Holocaust, they’re pretty close. Two different types of people, one being hated and killed while the other is doing the killing. This was just plain horrific. Over the course of about 3 months, 800,000 people were killed. Although Adolph Hitler just said, lets kill these types of people, the death of Juvenal made the Hutus people kill hundreds of thousands of Tutsis peoples.

If humanism is the idea that all individuals matter, then there is no humanism in Rwanda. This Genocide did not make all people equal. There was absolutely no humanism in this case. All it was was one group of people killing another group of people. Humanism is says that all people matter, then why is their killing? If everyone mattered then why did they ever kill anyone? There was no Humanism in the Rwanda Genocide. The only part of it that there was was the fact that the Hutus people were not killing each other. No one person being greater then the other, just one group of people thinking they are greater then the others.

The leaders of the Rwanda Genocide must have been heartless and had nothing worth living for. In order to kill hundreds and thousands of people in that short of a time period, you have to have a good method, and no heart. The Hutus people watched the Tutsis people burn, suffer, and die. And it didn’t bother them. No human should be able to do that. They stood on top of dozens of dead bodies, knowing that they helped to create that pile, and went on with life, normal as can be. Heartless. That’s the only word that I can say about the leaders of this Genocide. Heartless.
All and all, I believe that the Rwanda Genocide was nothing needed. That it was just a repeat of the Holocaust. I also believe that there was nothing but pure un-humane acts. Humanism was definitely not a thought towards this act. Finally, there were only heartless people who lead this Genocide. Nothing good came out of it and nothing good went into it. Overall, the Rwanda Genocide was a horrible and terrifying act that should never have happened and should never happen again.