Transcript SCAVENGER HUNT

SCAVENGER HUNT:
Rwanda
By: Janeth Herrera
Araceli Mora
Khanh Duong
Political Leaders
• President Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda (left)
• President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi (right)
• Once their plane crashed in April 6, 1994 (by unknown
assailants) the Hutus started the extermination of Tutsi
minorities. Thus turning into genocide.
Direct Quote from a survivor from
the genocide
• Marcelline, a thirty-seven year old rape survivor was one
of those who decided to keep her baby. She was raped
by an interahamwe in Musambira commune during the
genocide. He threw her on the ground and said “I must
rape you or kill you.” After raping her, he took her money
and left her naked. She said “ I didn’t even want to open
my eyes. There were bodies everywhere.” When she
realized that she was pregnant, she did not care
because she believed that she would be killed sooner or
later. However, having survived the genocide, she
accepted the baby girl. “The child is innocent. She knows
nothing. She has a right to live,” Marcelline explained.
“but no one knows that she is a child of an interahamwe.
No one talks about what happened.”
Direct quote in response to
genocide
• Once study of rape in Rwanda by doctor Catherine
Bonnet noted the psychopathy of pregnancies resulting
from rape in Rwanda is the same as that which has been
observed in France and in the former Yugoslavia: these
pregnancies are rejected and concealed, often denied and
discovered late. They are often accompanied by attempted
self-induced abortions or violent fantasies against the
child; indeed, even infanticide. Suicidal ideas are
frequently present. Some women probably committed
suicide without revealing the reason when they discovered
that they had become pregnant by their rapist-tormentor.
MAP OF THE REGION OF
RWANDA
FOOD FROM THE REGION
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Baking soda
Banana and banana leaf
Bay leaf
Bitter leaf
Black pepper
Bread fruit
Red pepper
Chile Pepper
Cinnamon
Coconut
Eggplant
Fish, dried, salted, or
smoked
• Rice
• Sweet potato
• Squash
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Sardines
Garden egg
Garlic
Ginger
Grape fruit
Green beans
Green tea
Maize
Meat, dried, or smoked
Nutmeg
Onion
Peanut Butter
Papaya
Pineapple
Pumpkin seeds
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
• OFFICAL LANGUAGE: Kinyarwanda,
Universal Bantu Vernacular,
French, English
• MOSTLY USED: kISWAHILI
Photojournalists from Rwanda
• Award-winning photojournalist
Corinne Dufka recalls her time
in the midst of the 1994
genocide. She blames the
Rwandan state, not tribal
violence, for the killings, and
castigates the U.S. and the
world community for standing
by while hundreds of thousands
died.
Influence of the United Nations
towards Rwanda’s Genocide
• General Romeo Dallaire testified that the U.N. mission in
Rwanda did not have the support it needed to prevent the 1994
genocide in the Central Africa nation.
• He said that he has warned the United Nations that extremist
Hutus intended to exterminate minority Tutsis.
• General Dallaire said, he had pleaded in vain for reinforcements
and expanded powers for peace keepers to prevent the
genocide. U.N. officials refused, over ruling his plans to raid a
Hutu arms cache and insisted evacuating most of the 2,500members multinational forced after the killings started April 6,
1994.
• He had 1,200 men, while the Tutsi rebels who have since taken
over Rwanda had an estimate 13,000 and the former Hutu
government had 25,000 troops. The strongest contingent was a
450-men Belgian battalion. Hutu troops had killed 10 of them in
a frenzy of hatred on April 7, 1994, hours after President
Juvenal Habayarimana’s plane was shot down by unknown of
assailants.
Person of the U.N. that had direct role
and connection in Rwanda’s genocide
• General Dallaire
BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http://www.gng.org/rwanda/hfiles/rfacts2.html
• http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9804/07/rw
anda/
• http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://w
ww.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9804/07/rwanda/cli
nton
• http://mediafilter.org/CAQ/CAQ52Rw4.html
• http://www.gng.org/rwanda/hfiles/rfacts_sites.html
• http://www.hrw.org/reports/1996/rwanda.htm
• http://www.congocookbook.com/co120.ktml
• (ask jeeves)
Symbolic Emblem
• In 2001, the Rwandan
government organized a
nationwide competition,
asking Rwandans to design
their own flag. The result (seen
on top) was designed by
Alphonse Kirimobenecyoa, a
native artist. The green and
yellow represents the light of
the sun, and rwanda’s lush
vegetation. The sky blue
represents peace and hope that
will last. Green and yellow
were both present in the
previous flag of Rwanda (seen
on the bottom) but the sky blue
replaced the red, which too
strongly echoed the blood spilt
in the 1994 killings.
Genocide Summary
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The Rwanda genocide started on April 6th, 1994 right after the plane that carried President Juvenal Habvarimana
of Rwanda and President Cyprien Ntarvamira was shot down by unknown assailants just outside of Kigali. Two
days later, the International Red Cross reported an estimate of thousands of Rwandans was killed in the genocide.
Even though the U.S. government knew this was a genocide, they refused to acknowledge and to act against it.
The U.S. State Department spokeswoman , Christine Shelley said “the use of the term ‘genocide’ has a very
precise legal meaning, although it is not strictly a legal determination. There are other factors in there as well.”
After researching information on Rwanda’s genocide we have noticed that there are a lot of different viewpoints on
the topic. Some people believe it is a genocide because of tribal hatred, however many disagree and say there
are a lot of factors that greatly affect the event as well. Villia Jefremovas stated that poverty, decreased land
availability, population growth, regional politics, etc…