Most of the killing was done with machettes, and an estimated 800,000 victims were slaughtered in 3 months. This means that the view that killing on the scale and speed of the Holocaust was only possible in an industrial society, using industrial means, needs rethinking carefully.
The Rwandan genocide was not really a war, since the aim of this genocide and any genocide is to exterminate a certain group of people. In the Rwandan genocide the aim was to kill all the Tutsis. Fortunately not all the Tutsis were killed in this genocide, but hundreds of thousands were and Rwanda still has to bear the scar of what happened during that horrible time to this day, so nobody won the genocide, everybody just lost.
"The Holocaust" was the name given to the Jewish genocide after the fact. The Rwandan genocide does not have a specific name, but they are both genocides.
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
One of the major impacts on society because of the Rwandan genocide was the displacement of large populations. Many of the people that left Rwanda never returned.
the rwandan genocide.
The genocide lasted for approximately 100 days.
They were not involved in the Rwandan genocide.
In the Rwandan Genocide, the Tutsis were refered to as cockroaches
The Rwandan genocide was not really a war, since the aim of this genocide and any genocide is to exterminate a certain group of people. In the Rwandan genocide the aim was to kill all the Tutsis. Fortunately not all the Tutsis were killed in this genocide, but hundreds of thousands were and Rwanda still has to bear the scar of what happened during that horrible time to this day, so nobody won the genocide, everybody just lost.
"The Holocaust" was the name given to the Jewish genocide after the fact. The Rwandan genocide does not have a specific name, but they are both genocides.
The Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide.
The Rwandan genocide.
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
During the Rwandan Genocide, over 900,00 tutsis were killed by the hutus with machetes.
Yes, there is a very good film about the Rwandan genocide, called Hotel Rwanda.
The Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and the Armenian genocide.
The genocide ended in 1994.