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30/05/2017

The Rwandan genocide: analysis of the factors that influenced the conflict (DIEEEO59-2017)

The Rwandan genocide, one of the largest massacres perpetrated in the history of mankind after World War II, turns 23 by these dates. A dark episode that claimed the lives of around 800,000 people, besides aggravated and instrumentalized ethnic conflict in order to hide the interests of international powers due to mineral resources that have conditioned the political agenda of the region, with epicenter in the area of Great Lakes of Africa. The strategic resources of this territory have motivated a broad kind of interventions in countries such as Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In order to understand the reasons for this slaughter it is necessary to carry out a thorough analysis of the factors that had influenced it. A fratricidal struggle in which the two main ethnic groups of the country —Hutus and Tutsis— forgot their patriotism to extol their differences.

Author: Daniel Rodríguez Vázquez

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