Tuesday, July 31, 2007

european invasion of tribal countries

its amazing that time and time again history has shown that when Europeans invade tribal countries and try to enforce their way of life the existing inhabitants struggle with it and really don't want to stop living the way they have always done for thousands of years. we see the devastating affects that the English had on the aboriginals in Australia and the repercussions are still seen today. the same is true for the Hutus and the Tutsis tribes in Rwanda. the Belgians came in and because they showed favouritism towards the Tutsis aggression and hostility built up between the two tribes, which led to the horrific massacre in Rwanda in 1994. Jane Elliot's experiment also shows how even such a small difference in features such as blue and brown eyes can be used to cause racism and ultimately extreme hurt or if taken too far violence and death.

what a world we live in... humans have so much ability to show kindness and overwhelming love to others yet we chose to discriminate, hate people for no reason, cause division within ourselves and kill each other because we can... i don't think there is any other animal in all of creation who would want to harm one another like we do!

i've just attached an article from BBC News giving a quick over view of the history of the country and why the genocide happened. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1288230.stm

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