Friday, May 23, 2008

Rwanda Genocide




The Rwandan Genocide was the systematic murder of the Rwanda's Tutsi minority and the moderates of its Hutu majority, in 1994. This was both the bloodiest period of the Rwandan Civil War and one of the worst genocides of the 1990s. With the preliminary implementation of the Arusha Accords, the Tutsi rebels and Hutu regime were able to agree to a cease-fire, and further negotiations were underway. The diplomatic efforts to end the conflict were at first thought to be successful, yet even with the MRND and RPF (political wing of the RPA) in talks, certain Hutu factions, like the CDR, were against any agreement for cooperation between the regime, and the rebels, to end Rwanda's ethnic and economic troubles and progress towards a stable nationhood. The genocide was primarily the action of two extremist Hutu militias, the Interahamwe (military wing of the MRND) and the Impuzamugambi (military wing of the CDR), against dissenters to their Hutu extremism. Over the course of about 100 days, from April 6 to mid-July, at least 800,000 Tutsis and thousands of Hutus were killed during the genocide. Some estimates put the death toll around the 800,000 and 1,000,000 marks.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

Rwanda, 1994

After Rwandan President Habyarimana's plane was shot down on April 6, 1994, Hutus in Rwanda began a mobilized campaign of massacre against Tutsis and moderate Hutus that last 100 days and killed 800,000 people. The nation-wide massacres were organized in part by broadcasts like those of Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines, which originally announced the president's death and in the ensuing days called on Hutus to "get to work" ridding Rwanda of its Tutsi population. News of the slaughters caught the world's attention, but again the international community failed to prevent many innocent deaths. Despite the fact that the UN had troops on the ground when the killing began, it refused Commander Roméo Dallaire's request for reinforcements and, in fact, ordered him and his force to withdraw.
Source:http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,338612,00.html

Rwanda Genocide remains





Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tortuing in the holocaust


millions died in the holocaust but most of thier deaths were not sudden.

Firing squads were used to gun down many Jews at a time and then dumped into heaps. Some were told they were being taken to a shower and it was actually a gas chamber. Many starved to death and some were used as guinea pigs for medical testing especially twins.
Answer
Methods of execution included more than gassing and shooting; Jews were killed in a variety of ways. The camp guards “became notorious for their cruelty, trying to outdo each other in devising fiendish methods of killing their victims”. One man froze to death because he was forced to stay in an ice hole until he died. Another victim was hung upside down, completely naked, for three hours until he was killed by the camp guards who used “sticks to force sand down his throat”. Source:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_torture_methods_were_used_in_the_Holocaust


The results of the torture.



I don't know why anybody human would go ahead and kill any living thing let alone torturing the living thing before they kill it. The most famous reason I know is because torturing people gives them adrenaline and the knowledge that they are in power. I wonder how the people who torture living beams s;eep at night.