Summary+of+the+Rwandan+Genocide

=Summary of the Rwandan Genocide=

The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass killing of hundreds of thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by Hutus Power ideology. Over the course of approximately 100 days, from the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 through mid-July, at least 500,000 people were killed. Most estimates indicate that the death toll was between 800,000 and 1,000,000, which could be as high as 20% of the total population. After the hole killing situation the postwar government had placed the country on high priority on their development as in trying to get the Rwandan back up off their feets. In addition to that the government had open water taps in the most remote areas, providing free and compulsory education, and promulgating progressive environmental policies. The government has established a National Unity and Reconciliation Commission which oversees the reconciliation process, called G//acaca.// This particular group is a traditional adjudication mechanism at the umudugudu (village) level, whereby members of the community elect elders to serve as judges, and the entire community is present for the case. This system was modified to try lower-level génocidaires, those who had killed or stolen but did not organize massacres. Prisoners, dressed in pink, stand trial before members of their community. Judges accord sentences, which vary widely, from returning to prison, to paying back the cost of goods stolen, to working in the fields of families of victims. //Gacaca// is expected to conclude in December 2008. For many, //gacaca// has been a vehicle for closure, and prisoners' testimonies have helped many families locate victims. //Gacaca// takes place once a week in the morning in every village across Rwanda, and is compulsory.

The book "The Roots of Evil" by Ervin Staub was very good application of a comprehensive theoretical that had went through many levels of problems which includes mass of violence and its practical usefulness for efforts to prevent genocide from happening again. Staub explains how the difficult conditions of social events was enable inter-group violence using detailed historical examples. For instance, his analysis illustrates on the darkest actions of human beings, making sense of how neighbors can turn against each other. Hopefully, the author Ervin Staub will come out with a part two that would explain the Rwandan Genocide but, as of right now the book only talks about the other genocide struggles such as Amenian, Bosnian, Cambodian, Darfurian, and the Holocraust groups.