To clarify, the 800,000 casualties mentioned at minute 3:19 in this video were specifically Tutsi.

@hihihihi_hihi_hi

7 ай бұрын

ok 👌

@mwambalision5174

7 ай бұрын

800k accounted... there are thousands lost in the rivers and forests never to be accounted for, whole families extinguished. 800k is a spit on the face to us survivors

@esraarashad1639

6 ай бұрын

make one about whats happining in GAZA

@Treysorable

5 ай бұрын

How did so many Tutsi die when the Hutu were the ones in the majority rising up, but the invading army was Tutsi?

@rutonde

5 ай бұрын

@@TreysorableThe genocidaires were not ‘rising up.’ They held exclusive control over everything, including 99% of the territory at the outset. The tutsi population didn’t just dye. The genocidaires deliberately set out to exterminate it fully and nearly succeeded. The resistance force that you mention at the end had to fight a large pro-genocide army in order to reach massacre sites and rescue some survivors. This required time (3 months overall) and great personal sacrifice.

It is also important to note that the Rwandan government has made it a policy to refer to all citizens as Rwandans rather than by their ethnic group as part of a broader effort to reduce ethnic tensions and prevent the recurrence of violence.

@unholykill333u9

11 ай бұрын

It's important to note that all governments are treasonous and are more guilty than those they claim to persecute.

@e-ben616

11 ай бұрын

This is what I wished Nigeria would do. Our ethnicity divides us when it should be our greatest strength.

@PaulJohn01

11 ай бұрын

Still in many countries putting your Ethnic or Tribal group on Censuses and applications and ID is required. Can't we all just be HUMAN after all 🤔

@dushimedavid6345

11 ай бұрын

Rwanda is a special case. Rwandans don't have races not because of the genocide but because those so called races have no real grounds. For races to exist, people need to have borders( as in they live on separate land) , a different language at least. The colonisers created these races. It was so bad that some siblings ended up having different races. Also if your father was considered a Hutu you became a Hutu by default. Some women were asked to kill their kids and some killed them. This video doesn't cover the fact that colonisers created these races to pin Rwandans against each( divide and rule : where you create a conflict between people as decoy to extract the benefits all for yourself without them being united against you). Those races were created because colonisers couldn't break through the unity of Rwandans. It was all for a piece of bread as the saying goes in my country.

@Just4Kixs

11 ай бұрын

This is exactly what Cyprus needs.... They are not Greek nor Turkish.

My parents survived the 1994 Tutsi genocide and I can hardly affirm the wounds have fully healed almost 30 years after. We’ve lost so many fam members and dears friends during the genocide!! The aftermath is often under estimated and almost as tragic as the the event in itself. Just a reminder of how much racial segregation and ethnic discrimination can lead up to catastrophic and tragic endings. #NEVER AGAIN😞😣

@curiousworld7912

11 ай бұрын

God be with you, and may your heart finds peace. I cannot begin to imagine what those terrible months, or years, were and have been like. I recall listening for news of Rwanda in '94, and feeling shame that my own government went out of its way to avoid even saying the word 'genocide', for fear we might actually have to do something about it. The world turned its back on Rwanda, and I, personally, am so very sorry. I can only pray your words, and those of people like you, will touch the hearts of those who hold bias against others, for any reason. We are all brothers and sisters, and we should love one another - not hate. I wish you well. :)

@Goku17yen

11 ай бұрын

🤍

@itsblitz4437

11 ай бұрын

Sadly this type of division based on ethnicity and discrimination is still ongoing not just in Rwanda but other countries like in the Middle East and in Asia.

@curiousworld7912

11 ай бұрын

@@itsblitz4437 Very true. Even the West is not immune from this terrible way of looking at the 'other'.

@SlickNick98

10 ай бұрын

May all of ur family and friends that have died rest peacefully and I hope u find peace while u still live as I can imagine how awful that was to go through 🙏😔

I lived in Rwanda for a while. I listened to so many testimony when I was there and it was HORRIFIC. Being Burundian (an neighbor country of rwanda) with a tied history I hope that neither Rwanda or Burundi will ever go through such times of violence and mass murder. Tutsi, Hutu or Twa doesn't mean anything we are just Rwandese and Burundians.

@lynnndoli486

11 ай бұрын

I am Rwandan

@regulus9181

11 ай бұрын

Does the Burundi government still require NGOs to report in their official papers all of their employees' tribes?

@malegria9641

11 ай бұрын

Didn’t the same happen in Burundi on a smaller scale? Or am I mistaken?

@zenxel

11 ай бұрын

@@malegria9641 Yes, it's lesser known.

@not__me

11 ай бұрын

@@regulus9181 No, it does not. With the current government though the discrimination of Tutsis has increased. But generally that mindset is fading and younger generation are trying to get over it.

For those who are interested, there's a french novel (which had been translated in other languages since) called "Small Country" (Petit Pays) written by Gaël Faye and it tells the story of ten-years old Gaby who lives in Burundi during the Rwanda genocide with his family and witness the horror of the war coming to its country. It's beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.

@9709Nick

11 ай бұрын

There's also the Don Cheadle movie, Hotel Rwanda

@Hahalol987

11 ай бұрын

​@9709Nick that movie is insanely inaccurate and more fiction than non fiction. Highly recommend shooting Dogs instead.

@Chrisntaz

10 ай бұрын

@@9709Nickthat’s no movie of reference. They’d rather listen to survivors’ stories

@donpula6349

10 ай бұрын

@@Hahalol987 Especially, Kinyarwanda, too. It's also another true story from all the accounts of the survivors.

@Bell_plejdo568p

9 ай бұрын

The french were the ppl most responsible for it

Minor correction: 800,000 Tutsis were killed. About 300,000 Hutus and Twa were killed due to being considered Tutsi sympathizers. Edit: This might not be correct either. It is only one of several estimates.

@lety18chula

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, it's so important to understand those number to see the true power of drestuction human kind has

@Agent-ie3uv

11 ай бұрын

Hotel Rwanda is one of my favorite movies of all time 🎉🎥

@tessy4018

11 ай бұрын

@@Agent-ie3uvfyi Hotel Rwanda’s wildly inaccurate. I recommend reading accounts from people who were in the hotel, and the movie sometimes in April as it is more accurate. Hotel Rwanda as caused so much damage to the victims.

@stoleterziev523

11 ай бұрын

😢

@ruzimabonieck6908

11 ай бұрын

​@@Agent-ie3uvHotel Rwanda is not accurate.

This brings back memories. When I was in high school, we watched Hotel Rwanda (2004) a few times in class to learn about this tragic genocide.

@KillmongerX321

11 ай бұрын

Imagine being the only African student in class… the ignorance of my fellow classmates really was in full display

@maxleroux

11 ай бұрын

@@KillmongerX321 You have my sympathy and I get what your're saying. I only learned about the Indian Residential School System because I took an "optional" Native Studies course during high school. Why are these dark chapters in my own country's history not considered required learning? What happened to those poor kids was super messed up. 😢

@KillmongerX321

11 ай бұрын

@@maxleroux that’s crazy. history is written by the victors, I don’t think any nation likes admitting to atrocities they have caused. The whole subject of Slavery and civil rights was a 2 day lecture in history class lol

@godzillavkk

11 ай бұрын

I was in Middle School, when I saw it.

@johnnyearp52

11 ай бұрын

​@@KillmongerX321 We studied slavery longer than that when I was in school in the 1990s.

Going to the Genocide Museum in Rwanda is still one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life. Please read the accounts from survivors. Kwibuka.

I think you did the right thing to turn down the real harshness of this genocide. I have read many books about Rwandan genocide and it's felt like a terrible nightmare to me.

@bartsfartandshart

11 ай бұрын

Even those books cannot truly grasp the horror of the Rwandan Genocide.

@e-ben616

11 ай бұрын

This is like hearing my mom tell stories of the Nigerian Civil war. I mean you get it... But you don't fully understand it's horrors unless you lived it.

@asankajayaweera7212

11 ай бұрын

@@bartsfartandshart very true.

@zzz-nu2re

9 ай бұрын

Wild how they were able to blame colonization for it

@atb_ty8785

8 ай бұрын

that was the causation if they were never colonized and forced to operate off of ethnicity none of this wouldve happened@@zzz-nu2re

I like how the animation style is so simple, but can also look bloody whenever scenes of massacre are shown.

@badbandit790

9 ай бұрын

wait I don't wanna be that guy but damn I never Got these much likes 😙

Thank you for covering a horrific topic that many outside Africa don't know about and the animation was so captivating the animators must be given more credit Also Africa as a whole has learn from Rwanda about leaving behind prejudice and hatred toward each other

Just returned from Rwanda. I couldn't, for the life of me fathom these human horrors. I sped out of the memorial centre halfway through the tour. Simply incomprehensible considering what happened to kids.

Its amazing how much Rwanda has progressed since those horrible times.

@samsonsoturian6013

11 ай бұрын

Ha

@msmit3669

11 ай бұрын

Rwanda has a gdp per capita of $850 (one of the lowest in the world) and has a severe overpopulation problem. Their on there way to become better with their current government but live still is harsh in rwanda

@berdwatcher5125

11 ай бұрын

I mean, they arent doing genoside but still isnt very good.

@askosefamerve

11 ай бұрын

​@@msmit3669At least it's getting better.

@Agent-ie3uv

11 ай бұрын

They trying to be like singapore today, but I highly doubt it.

Some of the Tutsis survived by hiding in a hotel, run by Paul Rusesabagina. The film, Hotel Rwanda, depicted this starring Don Cheadle

@derekndosi

11 ай бұрын

It's not accurate though

The first time I’ve known about the Rwandan Genocide was in an HBO movie called “Sometimes in April”. I was shocked and horrified that something like this happened and that nobody from the outside world ever tried to stop it. Even to this day, I still wish we could’ve done something. 😢

@tessy4018

11 ай бұрын

It’s much more accurate than Hotel Rwanda. Great but heartbreaking movie.

@theotherohlourdespadua1131

11 ай бұрын

Like what? Intervene? Somalia and Yugoslavia made the whole idea a bitter pill to swallow, with Libya, Syria, and now Sudan adding more reasons not to...

@orsaz924

11 ай бұрын

@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 You have a point, intervention isn't always the best course of action. In this specific case, maybe offering refuge to civilians could've helped.

@vextex9719

10 ай бұрын

An intervention would have left the country like Somalia or Iraq

@zzz-nu2re

9 ай бұрын

Whoever intervenes will end up taking the blunt of the blame

Humans are capable of acts of mass insanity, let that not be forgotten.

@hungrymusicwolf

11 ай бұрын

Also let's not forget the solution found being law, order, liberty, human rights, and justice. All of which are under pressure right now in the west due to various political groups believing they should have the right to judge others, and ignoring the wisdom of the past.

@theWZZA

11 ай бұрын

@@hungrymusicwolf When you are going after your neighbor with a machete, you might stop and consider what you are about to do. Not quite so drastic in the West, but we are headed that way, I agree.

@hungrymusicwolf

11 ай бұрын

​@@theWZZA I am much more afraid of the subtle forms than the guys with a machete. People learn after a massacre so you only have to survive. The subtle beliefs of self-righteousness combined with a lack of humility are different. They cause a buildup of resentment and Us vs Them mentality that destroy humanitarian and democratic values. I fear those who believe themselves to be right and acting within their conscience more than the worst of criminals.

@megamastah

11 ай бұрын

It's not insanity, it's years of divide et impera as well as propaganda. Belgians giving all the wealth and power to tribal/racial minority, leaving the majority underrepresented, speed up the impending boiling point tremendously. Dutch not moving a finger once the milk is spilled did not help.

@zzz-nu2re

9 ай бұрын

​@@megamastahthe power imbalance of Rwanda was well established before any colonization. But i hear u, marxist propaganda is very divisive and dangerous

It is also important to connect the events in Rwanda to what was happening in Congo for years prior. And afterwards. The conflict continues in Congo.

It is tragic when a society has become so violent, that the only way forward is some form of reconciliation, rather than conventional judicial justice. But as uncomfortable as it is, I think the story of Rwanda is such an important thought-provoking history lesson and has the potential to make us all a little bit wiser. Thank you for featuring this important chapter of history here! As a German, I consider it also an important part of the past of my own country. I am happy that we are at a point where we can discuss history openly and based on facts, rather than being trapped in a heroic view of our past. But I feel ashamed that we have done so little to mend the wounds we caused with our colonialism. Looking at our modern supply chains makes it even more clear: we have to come together as a global society and find a way to build trust and protect everyones rights. Otherwise we find ourselves in new and repeated conflicts. And for Germany, this means being more responsible, accountable, and humble. I think that would be a small price to pay for what we would win: each other.

@yomama6761

11 ай бұрын

Do you honestly believe in that, my german friend... We can openly discuss history, but the history is a bunch of lies that majority agreed for... There is no war where only 1 side is good and the second bad both are grey, this ain't a mouvie and I would sugest you Stop blaming your powerful ancestors for colonialism but start appreciating them for what they gave you a modern, powerful and rich country

@nilsp9426

11 ай бұрын

@@yomama6761 Yes, I do believe what I wrote. I am not dangerously oblivious due to blind scepticism.

@rocketmansapprentice

11 ай бұрын

What a lovely heartfelt comment ❤ we really do need to win each other 😌

@curiousworld7912

11 ай бұрын

I think yours' is a well-put statement. :)

@judith2924

10 ай бұрын

Oh dear, heroic view of our past? I have never been trapped in that as a German. But I know history goes far back than the history of the past 100 years and in order to not invoke new conflicts on other things we must surrender it all to god honestly. There's countless people in Germany that support Putin's war now. And it wouldn't do anything to win each other. We need to win god's grace, Jesus love and his mercy on us as we're all sinners.

If you read the Book "Left to tell" By one of the survivors, you'll cry. They were slaughtered in the churches and bodies mounted all over the street (mass graves) neighbors killed neighbors, childhood friend killed childhood friends. It's was a crazy

The last sequence of the graveyard was really heart trenching... Yet another nice short documentary by Ted-ed. I always wanted to know what exactly happened in Rwanda all those years ago.

Those trials must have been so messy, I can't imagine having to deal with those numbers

@bvillafuerte765

11 ай бұрын

Spain and Portugal: Watch and learn!

There is a Moroccan quote: "the one who knows fear will live", or "man yarif alkhaf yaish", a quote properly adapted to the entirety of Africa, which Morocco is part of. The meaning is "play it safe and careful within", but there is also another intepretation that is "if you want safe, make fear". The Rwandan genocide was born in fear, and the people perpetuated the genocide knew fears. So in order to live, they must make fear as weapon. In Africa today, people live because they still fear. But fear makes life unhappy and this resulted in more atrocities. It's only today that Rwanda has begun to leave behind fear to progress. But the rest of Africa remains a fearful continent, living within people's mind. If Africans can't abandon fear, more Rwanda moments will occur.

@rinjinnoko

9 ай бұрын

Easy to suggest that they should abandon fear when you're not living in as dreadful poverty.

@fmjjjjn7510

4 ай бұрын

As a Somali, I agree with this comment

@brieflyPost

2 ай бұрын

لي خاف نجا li khaf nja

I've already seen videos on this topic but still watched this one due to the signature animations and smooth narration. Great work as always... Also very cool how graphic the video was at times and how you don't stray away from the caricature drawing style

It’s so sad how this all played out. But what’s even worse is that many of the victims were small children

Noam Chomsky in Rwanda during the Genocide: Why are these good-natured Hutus hacking the air and why is the air bleeding?

@rutonde

11 ай бұрын

Spot on! Once I watched him in a tortured interview where he kept repeating that he will never acknowledge that there was genocide in Rwanda until the USA acknowledges that there was genocide on its own territory against Indians. I was stunned to see him repeat this conditionality like a broken record, as if the 2 histories are somehow intertwined. However, I believe your remark is more related to the troubling myth of the Noble Savage. This is highly relevant to this genocide because it strongly explains the crucial support and encouragement offered by Westerners to the genocidaires.

I remember watching hotel Rwanda/shooting dogs and was shocked to see this was based of a true story and another consequence of colonialism

@jarret5746

11 ай бұрын

Yep those colonists really made them kill eachother.

@loki2240

11 ай бұрын

​​@@jarret5746 The actions of colonists were certainly a contributing factor, and this video briefly touched on the promotion and exploitation of ethnic division. The British used the same approach in India with Hindus and Muslims, and several European countries have used that approach in African populations.

@perceivedvelocity9914

11 ай бұрын

The tribe's existed before and after European rule. This was a existing problem that the Europeans took advantage of.

@jarret5746

11 ай бұрын

​@loki2240 Just sat that first sentence again. A contributing factor but not the direct cause. There was much division in Africa already before Colonialism was here.

@Justmeeeeeee12

11 ай бұрын

Where's the hotel located

All my relatives and my father and mother are survivors of Rwanda genocide, im thankful that theyre here with me today however its been hard to learn about my Rwanda heritage, i still remeber the stories my mom told me of how she was attacked led by Hutu soldiers and i remeber how those stories would give me nightmares it also hindered my inabilty to learn the language and learn about the culture because i still think about the stories i was told whenever i get somewhat involved with my heritage, now im learning to overcome that fear and accept my culture thank you Ted-ed ❤ 🇷🇼

Now Rwanda 🇷🇼 is the hope of Africa 🌍 and the whole world ❤❤❤😢 Hallelujah 🙏💥💥🕊️🕊️🕊️

Rest in Peace beautiful souls💔🙏 Gone way too soon Prayers and best wishes to them, all of their families,friends and loved ones. There will be justice!!! Best wishes to all people of Rwanda ❤

What’s sad is that most of this history is forgotten even though being one of the most important event in the 90s, African history, and being the main reason for the first Congo war (African World War).

Forgive but never forget. Leaving the past behind is easier said than done.

The genocide had been a long-running project. Initiated in Rwanda in 1959, it was later extended to Burundi at various times. For example, recent research shows how genocidal militiamen started killing off the Tutsi population in 1972. To prepare for their attacks they had received training from the Tanzania regime in Kagunga Forest, at a site ordinarily used for training Mozambican rebels. They attacked simultaneously in several provinces (Rumonge, Bururi, Makamba, Cankuzo, Rutana, Bujumbura, Gitega), systematically killing all Tutsi people they could find. Occasionally they also killed Hutus who didn’t want to join them or whom they suspected might be Tutsi. Some passages: In Rumonge, the first victim was a teacher whose husband, also a teacher in Nkayamba, was named Simon. The militiamen mistook her for a Tutsi even though she was Hutu. Overnight they installed a roadblock very close to the courthouse while chanting slogans in the streets: “Mai Mulele!! Death to Micombero!! Long live Hutus!!” They killed a lot of people that night. According to news reports in the daily Flash-Infor, “all Tutsi civil servants in the province were killed: District commissioners, communal administrators, the prosecutor, assistant prosecutors, doctors, accountants, 40 people in all.” Among the victims were the district commissioner of Makamba, Isidore Zidona, the police chief in Rumonge, school principals, the prosecutor of Bururi, Jean Bikamba, and Thérence Rubati, a judge in Rumonge. Also murdered were doctors including Dr. Cyprien Simbiyara and other medical personnel and teachers. Other victims in Rumonge were the Bukemba commune administrator Etienne Njayobiri and the secretary of the Uprona party, Mr. Rungarunga. The militiamen also killed an Arab named Mohamed Amdan. They had allegedly asked him for gasoline to burn down homes and he refused. This resulted in his execution together with the wife and two children of the administrator Damas Nyambere. Then the rebels attacked the police headquarters and the courthouse. They killed everyone who had taken refuge there. At the extreme south of the shoreline, Nyanza-Lac was also attacked on the same day of April 29. Around 6:30 p.m., the rebels wielding machetes and wearing palm leaves on their heads came from Rwaba where they had spent their last sessions of the “magical immunization” ritual. Let us listen in this regard to the witness who was part of this movement: “It was Saturday April 29, 1972; we were around the Rwaba River. This is where I underwent the ritual of baptism by magic water. Around 6 p.m., we left this place to carry out attacks in the center of Nyanza-Lac. We started with three targets: The police station, the marketplace, and the residence of some French people. When we arrived where the BCB bank stands today, our chief ordered us to take three directions: "Chez Daniel" where some civil servants were gathered, the police station, and where the French telecommunication technicians lived.” A witness who escaped the scene remembers it: “We were walking along the road. We saw people lined up from Rwaba running at a jog. They were repeating a song that said “Mchaka Mchaka Kill”. I thought they were soldiers on a military maneuver. They wore palm leaves on their heads and carried new machetes. It looked like a ritual. As they got closer they were chanting, Long Live Hutus!! Death to Tutsis!! They took a man from the restaurant and beheaded him. After seeing this, I fled through the bush. Once at some distance, I saw police commander Misigaro and I asked myself why he was there. He left shortly afterwards.” [Donatien Misigaro was the Hutu police chief who had sponsored the militiamen. He had all Tutsi police officers who served under his orders disarmed and executed that day!] The militiamen then massacred all the Tutsi civil servants gathered at "Daniel’s", including the administrator of Vugizo Frédéric Niyonizigiye and the assistant district commissioner, Léonidas Basumbwa. However the first person killed was a Hutu named Kebumpa because he had refused to join the militiamen. Also targeted was a Hutu administrator from Nyanza-Lac, Thomas Sayumwe, reputed to be a “friend” of President Micombero. But he managed to escape death. The rebels went to look for him at home only to find out that he had already gone in hiding. Instead they killed his child who was still in bed. They also killed a Hutu agricultural engineer, called Dative. The police force included about 10 Tutsi officers. These were all executed at nightfall around 6:30 p.m. Their chief, Donatien Misigaro, had taken away their guns which he put in storage. Also killed was Commander Mbonihankuye who had travelled there to bring the monthly pay for the police station. Afterwards, the rebels took their weapons. On Sunday 30, the massacres continued in Rumonge and Nyanza-Lac. In Rumonge, the rebels took people to the marketplace to be executed. Some people hid in the bush and others were hidden by Hutus who did not join the [genocide] movement. A witness says that his [Hutu] father-in-law hid two Tutsi girls whose father was a police commander in Rumonge and who had been killed at the start. An old Hutu man named Manyuzi hid the two wives of a Tutsi man named Gapawa. Around Rumonge, the rebels massacred any Tutsi person they encountered. In Kigwena, because many young people from this locality were involved in the [genocide] movement, they seized a Peugeot truck from the friars at Kigwena Parish for transportation. The driver Epimaque moved the rebels on the Rumonge-Nyanza-Lac road under the supervision of Magenge. He was helped by Denis Mafungufungu with his own Peugeot while flying the green-red flag of the movement. Adolphe Nyandwi brought reinforcements from the rebels towards Bujumbura. But when they arrived at Kanyosha, they were forced to turn back. In Nyanza-Lac, the rebels killed Secretary Rukanka. He was a slender Hutu. He was a victim of his physique because in their understanding anyone that tall was Tutsi. They massacred indiscriminately Tutsi men, women and children as well as Hutus who looked like them. Let us listen to a witness who was a Mulelist [the genocide militia]: “We eliminated Tutsis: Tutsi men, women and children, as well as Hutus who resembled them in appearance or size”.

@Bell_plejdo568p

9 ай бұрын

The french and the belgins were the most responsible for it

@Kc-qe5dv

5 ай бұрын

@@Bell_plejdo568pNo The Hutus take your responsibility for your vicious actions, your name comes with a negative connotation ever since.

@jubernardi23

4 ай бұрын

@@Bell_plejdo568p🤡

You have to do one now about Rwanda's incredible development of the last 20 years.

It's also worth noting that in 1994 Rwanda was a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council which made it more difficult for the UN to try and intervene when the Hutu government had such a powerful seat.

Very important to share this, Thank you 🙏

This just scratched the surface. The full story is horrific

I love how detailed this video is you made my childhood thank you you made school easy and fun

Very informative, this channel has been posting informative content, consistently, for over a decade. 👍👍

Don't know why they teach history. No one seems to be learning from it. History repeats itself.

What the United Nations did doing absolutely nothing when this happened is reeally GREAT!😃 This organization is the BEST!

@KayTheAmericanPatriot

4 ай бұрын

The UN is completely useless

@laithmughrabi8990

3 ай бұрын

@@KayTheAmericanPatriot Just remember, USA is a key founder and supplier.

@KayTheAmericanPatriot

2 ай бұрын

@@laithmughrabi8990 That's a good thing

The fact the International community saw this conflict and mass murder and did nothing, sickens me. They even refused to acknowledge it, and even took away people who could massively help in resolving it. So much for a global organization meant to 'help' countries. At least they have improved now.

@curiousworld7912

11 ай бұрын

Yes. The international community not only ignored what was happening in Rwanda; I know the US State Dept. practically broke their heads attempting to avoid using the word 'genocide', as acknowledging the true situation would, under UN rules, compel the international community to act. There was no 'compelling interests' in Rwanda to make it worth the effort. The UN is only as effective as the countries represented care to be. It has no standing military; it relies on member states for that. And, it's to the world's shame that nothing was done, and even those UN forces that were determined to stay, were severely limited in what they could accomplish, try as they did.

@Sp7033

9 ай бұрын

@@curiousworld7912 They didn't ignore anything. They let it happen to give Kagame to seize power with his army. America was on his side at that time, so the UNO was

Genuinely shocked at the deleting of my comments by Ted-Ed as I was pointing out that the “Rwanda Genocide” term is typically used by genocide deniers. This is because it conveniently doesn’t acknowledge that the main victims of the Genocide were Tutsis, and although Twas and Hutus (especially Muslim Hutus, many refused to kill Tutsis) were also killed, it wasn’t for their ethnicity, but for their association with Tutsis. They deserve their flowers for their courage - but only Tutsis were murdered simply for being Tutsis. This is why Rwandans refer to the genocide as the “1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda”, and genociders typically refer to it as “Rwandan Genocide” or “Rwandan War”, as it diminishes their atrocities against the Tutsi and try to equate the RPF stopping the Genocide to their eradication efforts. It is highly likely that this wasn’t on purpose from Ted-Ed, but I am genuinely saddened to see that they keep deleting this particular comment. It is now the third time I post this point.

@pozitifvenegatif

11 ай бұрын

You may need to carefully choose the words you use and censor some words, the KZread algorithm may be detecting this, or as a second option, Ted-Ed deletes your comments. 😬 By the way, I didn't understand a lot of things about this video. Because the words used are so foreign. :/,I don't understand why there was war, genocide. Apart from my own history, I think I should be interested in world history as well.

@rutonde

11 ай бұрын

@@pozitifvenegatif Tough to give satisfactory explanations in this forum. But you did well to be specific about what you do not understand. If I may attempt an answer: Why there was war? Starting in *1959 and through 1990,* a lot of the Tutsi population had been killed off by the government. Half the survivors had been expelled from the country. For those decades, they had taken refuge in neighboring countries and had been prohibited by the rulers in Rwanda from ever again returning home. They saw this as a grave injustice on top of being massacred while still in country, before survivors were able to escape. The exile had been oppressive: Decades of living in refugee camps with restrictions and being periodically threatened with expulsion by the host countries. The refugees never saw this situation as acceptable. Many of them decided to help put an end to it by force because patience and pleadings had not led anywhere. Meanwhile in Rwanda, there were even Hutus who had been systematically oppressed by the anti-Tutsi regime. Among them, many joined the movement that launched a war against the regime in 1990. A quick victory would have deprived the regime the time it needed to prepare and carry out yet another genocide episode. But victory wasn’t swift as it should have been because the rulers went straight to the French government for military assistance against the attacking force. That military assistance (Operation Noroit) caused the war to drag on for several years. It was during those years (1990 - 1994) that the genocide was prepared, rehearsed and finally unleashed in 1994.

@inuhundchien6041

11 ай бұрын

You think too much. English speakers just want a catchy phrase of a recognizable name so they just use that eventhough it's not truly accurate. It happened too long ago before the accurate term come out so nobody want or care to change it.

@pozitifvenegatif

11 ай бұрын

@@rutonde You have explained very clearly. I owe you thanks. 💫

@Notmyrealname69420

11 ай бұрын

Over the past few years it’s become abundantly clear that the liberal wing of the Washington establishment wants to rehabilitate the Hutu power opposition to look like the humanitarian side to western eyes. This is what the west does, they play off ethnic differences to maintain control, we’re just lucky we live in an age where parts of africa are rising and america is crumbling

I’ve never been this early to a TedEd before :)

@dogwithawitchhat

11 ай бұрын

Yo

@1carus123

11 ай бұрын

They upload weekly so it was bound to happen

@bvillafuerte765

11 ай бұрын

Hight five!

I don't understand how anyone could mercilessly kill so many innocent people in such cruel and unusual ways. I understand the process intellectually and historically, but i can't put myself in the headspace of someone who's willing and wanting to commit such atrocities. I remember a story my uncle told my dad (who later told me) about his time in El Salvador during the time of the death squads. He said that, when the death squads had come to his village, the only way he survived was by playing dead in a pile of bodies. I just don't understand how you could do that to people, it doesn't make any sense

@EroticOnion23

6 ай бұрын

Try not eating for a couple weeks. "Society is only 9 meals away from anarchy"

Nah, just realised how seeds of poison can be planted so easily in common unware people's minds(even if they initially have had good relationships) by those in power.

This would have ended very differently if not for the Blackhawk Down incident, which caused the US to be very apprehensible about deploying soldiers in Africa. Understandable, but even more so unfortunate.

@malegria9641

11 ай бұрын

Blackhawk down could have prevented so much tragedy, in Rwanda, in Congo, in Chechnya…

@Notmyrealname69420

11 ай бұрын

America was involved just no boots on the ground, the president america is slowly turning more and more against was actually trained in america. Just watch over the next couple years and america is gonna be back cause right beside rwanda is one of the most resource rich areas in the world and more importantly what is needed to make electric cars and new tech

@dexterwestin3747

11 ай бұрын

There are more than US military forces out there that could have intervened. UN peacekeepers, pan African and European countries among others.

This is insightful in many ways. We learn a lot of meaningful lessons in these kinds of topics.

Very sad indeed. But it amazes me that when there is bloodshed in Africa its always blamed on the west & colonialism yet there is proof of inter tribal warfare and animosity way before settlers even arrived.

@daughterofisrael671

2 ай бұрын

It literally says that this was caused by colonialism. Just like what these Europeans did to Israel and Palestine. It clearly states these people lived comfortably amongst themselves but the Europeans pit them against each other. Sounds familiar.......

@kristofszilvasi9021

Ай бұрын

@@daughterofisrael671 why are there tribes out there untouched by civilization still practicing cannibalism on their adversaries?

This is one of the saddest parts of history

I first learned about this in book Walking the Nile with Levison Wood. It's also a life filmed documentary for Channel 4, I think.

The ending shot with the graveyard was heartbreaking.

Sometimes I can't sleep and find myself looking for uplifting stories

The animator has done a good job

Thanks for the contents! good as always!

When I was in middle school we had to pair up for a social studies assignment where we would give a presentation about a country and the selection process was drawing from a cup. We got Rwanda and the research was a wild ride 😅

I was actually born during apartheid. So was my husband. We have Hotel Rwanda. I was forced to watch it when I was 16 for confirmation class. My husband was forced to watch the opening of Saving Private Ryan

This happened in the 90s. It was not that long ago

Love videos like this very informative and visuals are stunning if you like stuff like this and want to watch good movies about the Rwandan Genocide some are Sometimes In April with Idris Elba and Hotel Rwandan starring the legend Don Cheadle.

What a sad sad story. The unfortunate inability to get along with one another though you are nearly and clearly very much alike: Tutsi and Hutu. God have mercy. And of course a foreign power has no idea of the local culture whatsoever. Their fault is greed. The Rwandan fault is lack of being responsible for it's action. Everyone wants to change the world, but no one is willing to change themself. So so so sad. So many lives lost.

This completely ignored the massive hand the French had in funding and arming the Rwandan government carrying out the genocide. Don't take my word for it. Look it up yourself. A startling truth.

Hutus had been enslaving, starving, sacrificing & killing all the men of Tutsi & other tribes for centuries before any Europeans entered africa. This argument goes back around 500-850 years. Hopefully it will end soon & there will be peace for all.

@wank7

2 ай бұрын

Wrong and what you said has no history backing

Some very important details are missing in the video about the origin of Hutu and Tutsi. You'll find the following text in one of the very first sections in the Genocide museum: Rwanda had 18 clans - the categories Hutu, Tutsi, Twa were social economic classifications within the clan - in 1932 an identity card system was introduced which classified people depending on the number of cows they had - Anyone with ten cows was called Tutsi - Anyone with less than 10 cows was called Hutu And so the division started.

The one who did the documentary needs me and more information from me, I know everything about Genocide against Tutsi in 1994 . I was born and raised in Kigali-Rwanda, and I am still sharing my research. There is still a lot to edit in this documentary

The whole should know more about Rwandan Jenocide in order to learn more about this tragic and devastating history just because history is the reason that we live aside that determine our entire life and we should learn from it in order to cultivate our own in good manner . This history must leave a reason for the whole world residences to say never again Jenocide again.

I came to know about this when I saw the movie “ Hotel Rwanda”

“Cut the Tall Trees” as the genocide begun

I'm from Mauritius Island. I still remember all my childhood in South Africa, Rwanda, Namibia, Kenya, Congo, Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroun. My parents were Doctors Without Borders in Africa, Serena McCluskey and Henry McCluskey. One day when we were in Rwanda, some Government Officials in helicopter came to us with automatic guns and force me and my parents to get on the helicopter and flew us straight to the airport. Years later while watching two movies called "Tears Of The Sun" and "Hotel Rwanda" i knew what happened and why we were forced to get on the helicopter.

Colonialism was terrible but it's not the answer to every question. Tribal violence was happening before European rule. A minority tribe ruled the majority tribe before the colonial period. The Europeans helped the minority tribe maintain their power. After the European's left the minority tribe could not maintain their dominance and that lead to this conflict.

@thiagosousanasc

11 ай бұрын

exactly, Tutsis have been ruling the region for over 300 years, the video gives the notion that it was the european rulers who created the idea of Tutsi being rulers

@berdwatcher5125

11 ай бұрын

thanks for the info

@colingraham1585

11 ай бұрын

@@thiagosousanascliberals and wokists

@bigleonda2

11 ай бұрын

I think the video also mentioned propaganda that the colonizers spread. It was the way that they instituted a system of their own in a land that was not adapted to it. The ruling classes of Africa weren't as harsh to their citizens as one were in europe (which is why we see so many french revolutions, Europe had a long issue with mistreated their lower classes). Its about how you treat people. The original ruling class didnt inforce things the was the colonizing leadership did. I see you point but theres more to it then "colonizers did it". This is an issue of economics that just so happens to have been carried one through colonization. But were it not for colonization, this issue MIGHT not have happened.

@shaunmontebon7616

11 ай бұрын

This conflict would not have happened had the Europeans not came. Tribal violence was happening, that may be so, but genocide most definitely was not happening.

@TED-Ed please please please, refer to the genocide as “The genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi” as that is the official title that the UN and the Rwandan government and its people use. Thank you 🙏🏾

@simontboon

6 ай бұрын

Would you consider dropping me an email? I M a researcher working with the Rwandan diaspora and would very much appreciate speaking with you.

There are a few things I wish I made up in my head, but the stories from this genocide is something that still horofies me so many years later.

Whenever I hear about atrocities such as this, I always inquire about that country's natural resources (oil, gold, gemstones, etc).

@thatissoquebecishh2134

11 ай бұрын

Nothing to do with ressources..

@renzo7503

11 ай бұрын

@@thatissoquebecishh2134 Resources are always a factor. The colonizers were there for a reason.

@maureennjerin.5552

9 ай бұрын

​@@renzo7503so you haven't researched this one clearly

@houssedecouette4056

9 ай бұрын

@@renzo7503 yet in this case of genocide it was a regular power strugle

@The_king567

5 ай бұрын

@@renzo7503not this case

This is why hate speech should not be protected under freedom of speech. Words are powerful, and have the power to indoctrinate, which can turn neighbors against each other

@candorsspot2775

11 ай бұрын

What is hate speech?

@ejazminhas61

10 ай бұрын

Free speech often becomes hate speech

@ronanregan1478

10 ай бұрын

​@candorsspot2775 talking bad about a certain group of people which can lead to well genocide.

@candorsspot2775

10 ай бұрын

@@ronanregan1478 Talking bad and threatening and encouraging people to kill are not the same thing. Rwanda did the latter, that is not protected free speech to threaten to kill people.

@ronanregan1478

10 ай бұрын

@@candorsspot2775 but they used hate speech/propaganda to indoctrinate those people to act on violence. That's what I meant to say.

This is a very simplyfing presentation of what happend in 1990-1994 and further in Rwanda, you should listen to the people in Rwanda, listen, listen ...

My mother was a missionary in Rwanda before the genocide. We were watching an old home movie showing her playing and teaching some young boys. They were also playing with a soccer ball on a Sunny day. Those two boys were murdered during the genocide. I could see the pain in my mother's eye when she was watching the film. I'm hoping one day we can live in a world where this never happens.

Yaaas!!! Ted-ED is one of my favourite KZread channels. Keep going, with your amazing graphics, animations and information. You don’t know how many students and grandmas you’re helping.

Ted ed the episode is excellent

this is Absolutely HORRIFYING

TED_Ed can you do a History on Trial of The Duke Of Wellington and Winston Churchill.

how do u guys manage to upload about something that i literally wanted to do my research on?

@bvillafuerte765

11 ай бұрын

Spies.

@megamastah

11 ай бұрын

Confirmation bias.

@RwandaNzizaKGL

11 ай бұрын

Qn. Terms and conditions Ans. PRIVACY

1:04 I think the Belgians were actually right by accident here. You can find old records of Hutu becoming Tutsi after getting status and wealth and some families even held a ceremony when it happened to one of their own. So while the three groups might have been ethnic groups, it probably is closer to something between the Indian caste system (you're often born into it) and the Victorian British social class (in the sense that it was possible to get into the upper class just by getting rich). After all, if they were truly ethnic groups, it doesn't make sense for someone not born Tutsi to become Tutsi later in life. If I had to guess, in the 18th century and earlier people probably thought of a ruling class and commoners when they heard of Tutsi and Hutu rather than ethnic gorups.

@IslandLimer

10 ай бұрын

Various genetic tests have shown them to be two distinct groups but by the 18th century they had already intermarried and integrated for several centuries and it became more a cultural identifier from what I have read

Honestly that traditional and modern courts hybrid system sounds like it was a good idea that worked pretty well all things considered.

Rwandans and future of that country, that no one, not even your neighbors will give true assistance, they learn what it is to be neglected by other countries. Seeing must only depends on themselves.

Ah yes, the United Nations - see genocide when there is none, doesn't see genocide when there is

@karinasnooodles_

9 ай бұрын

The US with Israel😂😂

@skypink4404

4 ай бұрын

​@@karinasnooodles_tf that gotta do with israel? What's happening there is not a genocide and the US was right Yall r just so naive and can't believe that death in this case is inevitable A country like Israel is more than capable of killing 100s of thousand within days if killing the innocent civilians was its goal

I read somewhere that "History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes" and I have never understood this until this video. The same genocide, different circumstances, different settings and the ignorance of many self-claimed international human rights bodies are happening AS I write THIS. Even though the Rwandan genocide was before our time and we couldn't do anything to help, we can prevent the same thing happening in Gaza from getting any worse. We can raise awareness, protest, make donations, and PRESSURE our leaders to do something. The pity and sadness we feel watching this video, we can make up for by being human towards Palestinians.

@laithmughrabi8990

3 ай бұрын

"The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history" -George Hegel

Whoa, heavy start to the day.

3:10 *Sarcastic-Surprise**

Stroma is from Rwanda and his father was killed by this. This is why he made papa ou t'es.

In a few years Haiti will have similar story cause the horrific accounts coming from there are insane! Maybe not that scale but its pretty bad

I hope Ted Ed covers the Yugoslav Wars in its video format.

Good Morning Maria.. Again... Thanks NYPD

My high school was really set on this particular event and always taught it in the first 3 years of social studies. I remember watching a very sad movie of it in class once.

This is same like they have done in india between preist groups and working groups

But still the Europe lectures Africa on human rights when it was a deliberate action by them to divide people and made them fight with each other.

My mom was 6 when this happened she passed out because of all of the things that were happening but her dad went with a big group to runaway the other people were guarding that way so she tried to call out her dads name and her moms but they couldn’t hear here and her siblings got killed except for one she was the eldest one and she moved away from Rwanda so she didn’t die and now I have cusion now back to my mom she passed out so it seemed like she was dead and that’s how she survived…

Please do something on the effects of boko haram on farming communities in Nigeria

Can you do another video about the Bangladesh Genocide which was done by Pakistan and Pakistan was supported by the United States even after the US knew what was going on.

The international community's failure to intervene swiftly will never be forgotten

Cool. World is going towards nice future with old school history revisionism.

For your own information, It is completely wrong to say 800,000 Tutsis were killed, it is 1,000,074+ Tutsis who were killed in 1994. otherwise is considered genocide denial. The second thing is, 300,000 weren't killed for being Tutsi sympathizers as many have mentioned above, that's a way of genocide denial.

@Sp7033

9 ай бұрын

There were not as many Tutsis in the country at that time .... Population was around 7 500 000 people and Tutsi were like 10 to 15 % of the population ... So if you do the math ... c

@jacaredosvudu1638

2 ай бұрын

You are the one who sounds like a genocidal denier, denying that hutus were targeted

The UN was just as much guilty as the Hutu's who killed. They left them there to die.