Luke's personal reflection

The Rwanda Genocide was a pointless massacre between two rival tribes. It goes against everything that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is about. These people killed innocent men, women, and children for a reason that is beyond words. These people's freedom to live was revoked by the war. These rights were founded on every man, woman, and child had the right to life and to live. This genocide ultimately denied these rights and killed 100s of thousands of people.
It all started in 1916 when the Belgium's came to to Rwanda and saw two different types of people. The Hutus and the Tutsi. They Belgium colonists decided that the Tutsi would be the superior race. They offered the Tutsis better jobs and education thereby denying the rights of the Hutus. They made it so there was now a judicial and fuedal system.
This can also be compared to the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler decided himself that the Jews would be the inferior race and "subhuman". He declared that pure Germans or Aryans would be the superior race and be treated far better than the Germans. These treatments were rights. The Jews were denied their rights and so were the Hutus. The very base of living were denied to these people. They could not vote or hold office. They were known and treated as subhumans.
Both Hitler and the Belgium colonists had the same way of classifying. They both decided that one group should ultimately be better superior to one. They thought that if you weren't in this group you were inferior and were denied your rights. In order to tell if you were a Jew, the Nazis decided on a system that every Jew should have to wear the word Jude or Jew on their arm. The Belgium's also did this. Every man in the country at the time had to have an identification card on them at all time. This card stated if you were a Hutu or Tutsis.
Again, by doing this they denied them of their rights. They were denied of their rights to live and to live free. If you were a Jew or a Hutu you were treated differently and discriminated against. You might be denied to vote or even enter a building, rights that we might think are stupid because we aren't being denied but if you were not allowed to do something because of who you were, you might think differently.
And now, the wick was getting short for the Hutu people. They were denied their rights for too long. It was just a matter of when. Everyone knew it would happen. Then, in 1994, it did. There was a massive civil war between them. The two extremist Hutu militia groups, the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi, led a massive attack on the Tutsis people and government. In this attack an estimated 800,000 people died! It was the worst civil war in Rwanda history.
I thought that this never should have happened. These people were divided and stripped of their rights which ultimately led to a civil war. This event is really no different from the Holocaust. This war should have never happened and the U.N. should have stepped in and provided peace.