Today we started off class by going over our semester test stuff. I will be taking the oral test. We then talked about our video for the Millennium Goals Project. We will be finishing that on Thursday.
Rwanda- In 1994 there was a 100 day genocide where over 800 thousand people were killed. The tutsis and the hutus are two peoples in Rwanda. The tutsis were more privileged when the Belgians were there. The hutus were the majority, though. When the Belgians left, the Hutus took over and the two groups fought a lot. Some of the tutsi's fled to surrounding countries. Airplane with president in it shot down. People blame the tutsi's. Hutus killed 800 thousand tutsis/hutu moderates. The UN and America didn't do anything to help. They didn't do anything because if they admitted it was a genocide, it would call for immediate action. In 1994, the tutsi rebel group came in, over through the government, and forced the hutus out to the DRC.
Darfur (Sudan)- the very western part of Sudan. JEMS SLM vs the Sudanese govn't. JEM is the Darfur group. They are a rebel group fighting the government because they think the gov't is favoring the Arabs over the black Africans. The Sudanese gov't is mainly Arab. The JEMS killed about 200 thousand people because they want to overthrow the gov't. The Sudanese gov't's attacks are carried out by the Janjaweed. They come in on horseback into Darfur. They burn villages, rape, steal, poison the water, and destroy the villages of Darfur. They get their money from stealing from the villages. The Janjaweed and the government want the land in Darfur. It is a genocide if they are killing the people because they are black. It is not a genocide if they are killing them for the land.
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