Even though Rwanda started sixty-one years after the Holocaust, both genocides had many similarities and differences. They were both two of the most terrible genocides that man has ever seen and they both involved a group of people murdering another group of people. When you start to go more in depth and research exactly why and how the genocides occurred is when the roads start to diverge. For example the Holocaust and Rwanda both started for two completely separate reasons, and they also ended in two completely separate ways. Both Rwanda and the Holocaust will always be remembered as some of the most tragic and terrible events and we need to remember these genocides and make sure that they never happen again.
As we start to look into the differences of the two genocides one thing is clear right away, they both were started for two different reasons. In the Holocaust the main reason that the Nazis started killing Jews is because of ingrained anti semitism, along with propaganda and the leadership of political figures. Right from when they were born Germans along with Poles, Austrians, French, Croats, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and others learned from when they were born, that Jews were evil and that they worked with the devil. With all of the anti semitism Christian teachings that they were taught they believed that killed Jews would be both reasonable and indeed desirable. On the other side Rwanda was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on the sixth of April, 1994. The Hutus who were the group that oppressed the Tutsis had already disliked the Tutsis because of past oppositions and now they used this event to justify their killings of the Tutsis. The other difference in the genocides is how the genocides were finally ended. Unlike the Holocaust Rwanda had been widely known about. T.V stations broadcasted the events and the whole word could see exactly what was occurring in Rwanda. The thing is that no one stopped the genocides from happening. The whole world watched the murdering happen and no one did anything about it. After around one hundred days of killing a group named the RPF, which stands for Railway Protection Force went into Rwanda and made thousands of Hutus flee out of the country, which would end the genocide. The Holocaust ended when Nazi regime collapsed. Unlike Rwanda very few people knew about the concentration camps. Only after the Nazis had been stopped and Germany had been taken over had the concentration camps been freed and the Genocide finally over.
On the other hand the ways that the genocides were similar is during the actual killing. After the genocides started and before they ended is when roads start to come back together. For example during the genocides both the Nazis and the Hutus killed thousands of Jews and Tutsis with no regret. In both situations they were the ones with all of the power and they used it on the Jews and Tutsis causing thousands of fatalities. Even though the Nazis killed the Jews using crematoriums and the Hutus killed the Tutsis using guns and other weapons they both lead to the same thing. The Jews and the Tutsis were both treated in terrible and inhumane ways and the Hutus and the Nazis looked down at them with no merci. Even though this is what was the most similar during the genocide the steps leading up to the genocides were also extremely similar. In both the Holocaust and Rwanda there was a group of people that was targeted. They group that was oppressing this group then used propaganda and past situations to use against the Jews and the Tutsis. Both genocides had the same steps leading to the actual genocide and they then both were executed in the same way.
As we look back at these two genocides we can distinguish both their similarities and their differences. Both of these genocides were extremely tragic and both of them lead to thousands of deaths, but they were also extremely different. Now that we have seen what these genocides can do, we need to do everything we can to avoid them. We can not let something like this happen ever again and now we know how to avoid these terrible genocide.
As we start to look into the differences of the two genocides one thing is clear right away, they both were started for two different reasons. In the Holocaust the main reason that the Nazis started killing Jews is because of ingrained anti semitism, along with propaganda and the leadership of political figures. Right from when they were born Germans along with Poles, Austrians, French, Croats, Slovaks, Ukrainians, Lithuanians and others learned from when they were born, that Jews were evil and that they worked with the devil. With all of the anti semitism Christian teachings that they were taught they believed that killed Jews would be both reasonable and indeed desirable. On the other side Rwanda was sparked by the death of the Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his plane was shot down above Kigali airport on the sixth of April, 1994. The Hutus who were the group that oppressed the Tutsis had already disliked the Tutsis because of past oppositions and now they used this event to justify their killings of the Tutsis. The other difference in the genocides is how the genocides were finally ended. Unlike the Holocaust Rwanda had been widely known about. T.V stations broadcasted the events and the whole word could see exactly what was occurring in Rwanda. The thing is that no one stopped the genocides from happening. The whole world watched the murdering happen and no one did anything about it. After around one hundred days of killing a group named the RPF, which stands for Railway Protection Force went into Rwanda and made thousands of Hutus flee out of the country, which would end the genocide. The Holocaust ended when Nazi regime collapsed. Unlike Rwanda very few people knew about the concentration camps. Only after the Nazis had been stopped and Germany had been taken over had the concentration camps been freed and the Genocide finally over.
On the other hand the ways that the genocides were similar is during the actual killing. After the genocides started and before they ended is when roads start to come back together. For example during the genocides both the Nazis and the Hutus killed thousands of Jews and Tutsis with no regret. In both situations they were the ones with all of the power and they used it on the Jews and Tutsis causing thousands of fatalities. Even though the Nazis killed the Jews using crematoriums and the Hutus killed the Tutsis using guns and other weapons they both lead to the same thing. The Jews and the Tutsis were both treated in terrible and inhumane ways and the Hutus and the Nazis looked down at them with no merci. Even though this is what was the most similar during the genocide the steps leading up to the genocides were also extremely similar. In both the Holocaust and Rwanda there was a group of people that was targeted. They group that was oppressing this group then used propaganda and past situations to use against the Jews and the Tutsis. Both genocides had the same steps leading to the actual genocide and they then both were executed in the same way.
As we look back at these two genocides we can distinguish both their similarities and their differences. Both of these genocides were extremely tragic and both of them lead to thousands of deaths, but they were also extremely different. Now that we have seen what these genocides can do, we need to do everything we can to avoid them. We can not let something like this happen ever again and now we know how to avoid these terrible genocide.