Nick Sandone Reflection

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights told people that every person in the world that they had the right to live, to be a human, and to be treated fair. But when the Hutu started there genocide in 1993 they did not follow the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They killed people out of a certain ethnic group even though they had not done anything previously to that.

The Rwandan Genocide was like the Holocaust a lot. There was anti-semitism but in a different way. The Hutus hated the Tutsi like the Nazis hated the Jews. The Hutus also massacred the Tutsi, just like the Nazis killed the Jews. I think that this was like the Holocaust very much because the Hutu acted alike to the Tutsi as did the Nazis to the Jews.

Humanism was completely avoided during the Rwandan Genocide. The idea that an individual mattered had no impact on what the Hutu did. The set up blockades and roadblocks just to get Tutsi into huge groups. They would then mow all of them down. It disregarded an individuals rights.

I think that the leadership in Rwanda was terrible. It showed that they had absolutely no eye on the Hutu. They had a large uprising to throw out foreign leaders. They killed 2 major leaders of the country. As soon as the third and final leader, until the end of the genocide, died they began there terrible act. From that point some of the leader countries that sent in leaders in the first place should have came in with military.

There is so much sorrow to give to these people were their lives were ended in a genocide. There were 800,000 people killed in 100 days. That means that there were 8,000 people killed every day. The Hutu gave absolutely no sorrow for anyone. That even includes children. They were treated like they were nothing.