We had blog discussion.
Rwanda (don't know how to spell that)
- in 1994 there was a hundred day genocide 800,000 were killed
- tutsies (privileged) vs. hutus (majority)
- The two groups fight for the next 30 years
- a lot of tutsis fled
- airplane shot down w/ Hutu officials, the people blame the tutsies
- Hutus started killing people w/ machetes and clubs etc. killed 800,000 tutis/ hutu moderates in100 days
- The UN and America didn't help (only a little bit)
- UN set up troops but they didn't go
- Tutsi rebel group forced the hutus out to DRC
- They still don't get along
Darfur (don't know if I spelled that right)
- Jem v. Sudanese government
- Jems are the rebels
- Sudanese government favoring Arabs over black africans
- February 2003
- a lot of people are calling in a genocide
- 200,000 killed/ died
- Carried out by the Janjaweed (devils on horseback) would go in to villages and kill pillage
- President Al-Bashir
- Some people say it’s the first genocide cause by global warming.
- They want the land (Sudanese
- Genocide?
- Fled to Chad ( 2 million )
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