Linda Kim: Essay 4

Research paper- The Rwanda genocide 

     Hello, I am a reporter Ree. Today, we are going to deal with the sad history of Rwanda, "the Rwanda genocide". I just came to Rwanda to know more about this pandemonium. Here, I am in a school that was just kept without any handling after the genocide. Here's about at least 50 corpse and it just look like a picture. So why did this happen? Why did the people must have died? I met one woman Amanda and she helped me by joining interview.

 

     She said that the story begins from a long ago. There was the Hutu and the Tutsi. They interacted each other by marriage. The thing that one is Hutu or Tutsi just mattered in showing the relationships between two of the government power. As time goes by, this classification actually made self identity and sights looking at the others. Finally, the thing that should never happen happened. The Hutu and the Tutsi became wholly different society.

 

     At this time, Rwanda became a colony of Germany with Brundi. As Germany was defeated at the World War I, the colony Rwanda-Brundi became a colony of Belgium. And here, Belgium introduced a caste system. Belgium seperarted Hutu and Tutsi completely. They just treated the Tutsi who were the minority well, and bullied the Hutu. So the Tutsi became the upper class and the Hutu started to think that Tutsi is one of the invaders like Europeans.

 

     Amanda told me that she was even kicked by the school. Even more, when she went back to home, her sister's husband told her that he can not let her in since she is a cockroach. Tutsi treated Hutu as the way just like how they treated coakroach.

 

     Habiarimana, who dictated twenty one years, said that the Hutu is superior of Tutsi to make them to be one. Amanda reenacted Habiarimana's word. "Since Hthe Hutu is much more superior than Tutsi, all of the ruling class must be full of the Hutu. The Hutu should not marry the Tutsi or employ Tutsi or even have sympathetic feeling.

 

     She told me that Habiarimana finally died. And this one death made a lot of death of people. People started to kill the Tutsi whenever they face them. She describes that the society was really gross. People just killed each other.

 

     Today, this big genocide has caught a breath. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has been made, and about 90,000 people were arrested. But still, the people who leaded this genocide are not admitting their fault. The Hutu who went to Tanzania, Burundi, or Uganda to be safe were afraid of the Tutsi. With helps of UN, the Hutu and the Tutsi now live together in a town.

 

     The country where the injurer and the victim co-exists is this place, Rwanda! People in Rwanda is trying to overcome sad history by remembering this incident. They still have lots of works to solve, but since there are many people who are trying to cut off the resentment of the cruel history, Amanda believed that one day she and her country would overcome the hurt.

 

     It might be hard, but me, reporter Ree will also keep praying for the country Rwanda. I hope we can smile a big smile all together when I come back to Rwanda again later.