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Aiding Violence
The 1994 genocide that took place in Rwanda is one of historys most atrocious events. ... Instead, many of these people were butchered to death with machetes, slaughtered by their own neighbors in their homes, in their churches and in the streets of Rwanda. ... Therefore, the accomplice in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is the entire international community.
There was a strong presence of the development aid community in Rwanda during the time the events leading up to the genocide were taking place. Rwanda was receiving external aid from many governments and non-governmental agencies. The development aid agencies in Rwanda barely reacted to the increasing human rights violations against the Tutsi people and the killings that were taking place more and more frequently. The state institutionalized racism that existed in Rwanda did not seem to detour the objectives of these agencies in any way whatsoever. The development aid agencies in Rwanda conducted business as usual while all of these events were taking place around them throughout the country. ... It is obvious that the majority of the members of the development community were only in Rwanda for their own benefit. ... Most of the development programs in Rwanda only benefited the richest one percent of the population, which was comprised mostly of the foreigners themselves, working for the development agencies. As Uvin states in the text Aiding Violence "the material advantages accorded to a small group of people and the lifestyles of the foreigners living in Rwanda contribute to greater economic inequality and the devaluation of the life of the majority"(143). At times, the programs even worked against the poorest people in Rwanda by taking over land, which is already scarce in Rwanda. On top of all of this, many of these agencies worked closely with the government of Rwanda and adhered to their policies of institutionalized racism by setting up development projects only in regions that are preferred by the government and only giving jobs to people of certain ethnicities. ...
The governments that were providing millions of dollars in aid to Rwanda should also be held accountable to some extent for not doing more to put an end to the human rights abuses and violence that led up to the genocide.
Approximate Word count = 1801
Approximate Pages = 7.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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