What are the motives behind genocide? There lies within humans a potential to commit genocide. The dark side of human nature awakens when a combination of economic catastrophes, political disasters and social upheaval makes a segment of a population desperate for change. Then, a regime's propaganda can successfully motivate it's citizens to commit genocide on a certain identifiable group or "victim".

There are 4 motives for genocide. Number one: elimination of a threat. Number two: economic gain. Number three: creation of terror amongst surrounding people. Number four: fulfillment of a theory or belief system.2

There are six major early warning signs that indicate a genocide is very near. Number one: hate propaganda, showing the future victim group as a lethal danger to the survival of society. Number two: the preparation of death lists and the killing of the people on the list. Number three: the introduction of restrictions, not allowing journalists to travel freely in the country. Number four: the use of code words to plan

*http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rwanda/etc/cron.html

*The Institute for Genocide Studies, Concordia University

The ethnic group that comprises Rwanda are the Hutu, 89%, the Tutsi, 10%, and Twa, 1%. They share physical features, a common culture and a common past. Belgium gained control of Rwanda from Germany after World War Two and then it developed different social classes for the Africans according to the number of cattle that an individual owned. A Tutsi was someone who owned more then 10 cows and a Hutu was someone who owned less then 10 cows. Therefore the Tutsi's became the higher class, as the Jews were in Germany, while the Hutu remained peasants, angry and jealous. This, (even though forty years ago) began the intense competition for power and the intense hatred between the Hutu and the Tutsi. 9

"Those who forget or ignore the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them".

More than six million Jewish men women and children were murdered by the Nazis during these years as an attempt to clean up German society and get rid of the none Aryan blood infecting their world.

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