`Bystanders become perpetrators when they do not act?` Discuss with reference to the genocide and mass murder being carried out in Rwanda & Darfur

p Explore- the UN interaction in the Darfur and Rwanda genocide . how they are not interviening .in the past the UN have never stopped any Genocide why

Explain why the west is standind by doing nothing to stop the genocide in Rwanda Darfur , because posibly Rwanda and Darfur have nothing to offer the world economically

Explain how the Sudanese goverment is no helping to stop the conflict in Darfur and therefor turning in to perpritrators , talk about the Janjaweed

Rwanda- Talk about the tribal conflict , between Hutu`s and Tutsi`s

Can

this Mass murder /Genocide be described as a civil war ? is it a tribal or ethnic issue

Explore how the local citizens are turning into perpritrators when they stand by , and letting such killings continue

Introduction

Both the Darfur and Rwanda genocides are notorious , not only for the number of lives lost and impacted , but for the inadequate response from the United Nations . The Western powers that comprise a commanding presence within the United Nations were and remain for all intents and purposes rather silent on the humanitarian crisis . Moreover , there appears to be acquiescent in the ongoing conflict in Darfur whereas more than a decade ago , the people of Rwanda were seemingly nonchalant as tragedy unfolded on their streets and in their homes . This examines and discusses the rationale behind the response to these two tragic conflicts on both an international and domestic level

Rwanda

For one hundred days beginning April 6 , 1994 approximately 800 ,000 to 1 , 071 ,000 persons were massacred in what has now become known as the Rwandan Genocide . The casualties came from among the Rwandan tribes of Tutsis and the Hutus . The crimes were attributed to Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi , two extremist Hutu militia groups

In a study conducted by the Human Rights Watch , the conclusion was simply that ` .this genocide was not an uncontrollable outburst of rage by a people consumed by ancient tribal hatreds ' Nor was it the preordained result of the impersonal forces of poverty and over-population ' The genocide was a direct result of a decision made by `a modern elite to foster hatred and fear to keep itself in power As a result of this finding the genocide in Rwanda cannot be aligned to a civil war . These killings were not motivated by a conflict to take power , but by a man who strived to retain power

A BBC report takes the opposite view . Claiming that ethnic tensions between the Hutus and Tutis tribes has always been a matter or concern for Rwanda , the BBC report alleges that `animosity between them has grown substantially since the colonial period ' However the Human Rights Watch Group attribute the rift between the two tribes to Rwanda 's President Juvenal Habyarimana . For hundreds of years the Hutu and Tutsi tribes shared a unique cultural bond and history , speaking the same language and participating in inter-racial marriages . It was Habyarimana , according to the Human Rights Watch Group that made an issue out of ethnic...