The Rwandan Genocide Essay -- inadequate response of the UN

For years, Rwanda has been a hotbed of racial tension. The majority of the Rwandan population is made up of Hutus, with Tutsis making up the rest of it. Ever since European colonial powers entered the body politic and favoured the Tutsi heathenal group over the Hutu by putting Tutsi people in every last(predicate) important positions in society, there has been a decisive political divide between the two groups. This favouring of the Tutsi over the Hutu, and the Hutu subjugation as an heathenish lower class resulted in the civil war and revolution of 1959, where the Hutu overthrew the Tutsi henpecked government, and resulted in Rwanda gaining their independence in 1962.However, tension remained between the two ethnic groups, with a civil war raging between the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic crusade and the Hutu Government of Rwanda, right up until August 4th, 1993, with the signing of the Arusha Accords. Previous to this, all UN intervention attempts were futile in trying to bring to gether a government with both Tutsi and Hutu in power. On April 6th, 1994, the President of Rwandas plane was coolness down, killing him and other chief members of staff when it crashed. This was the catalyst required for the Hutu to take up out their final solution, a plan for genocide against the ethnic Tutsi group they had been planning for years. This resulted in Hutu people taking up arms, principally machetes, to openly attack and slaughter all Tutsi, the families of Tutsi, and even moderate Hutu people who werent attacking the Tutsi. Over the period of around 100 days, with the death campana ranging somewhere between 800,000 to 1,100,000 the Rwandan genocide has become infamous for the high poetry of dead in such a short amount of time, and for the lacking(predicate) response of the UN an... ... involved led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan people. The UNs fight in Rwanda is considered to be a prime example of the ineffectiveness of international law and the UNs inability to grass with conflicts.BIBLIOGRAPHYhttp//www.ppu.org.uk/ Used for finding historical background regarding the Genocide.http//www.rwanda-genocide.org/index.html Good research basis to find access to statistics and other sources.http//www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1999/rwanda/ Great website with plenty of knowledge regarding all aspects of the issue.http//www.warriordoc.com/rwanda/ For information regarding Australias involvement in Rwandahttp//www.unitedhumanrights.com/ Information regarding United Nations involvementhttp//www.idrc.ca/cp/ev-106013-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html The medias response to Rwanda.