Rwanda Genocide Ranon Klein English 9 1 Genocide
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Rwanda Genocide Ranon Klein English 9 -1 Genocide Project Due 2/27/14
Rwandan Genocide • • • Began early April, 1994 Lasted 100 days Some estimates range between 800, 000 and 1 million deaths, with another 2 million refugees Carried out by Hutu supremacist militia groups At least 5, 000 ethnic Tutsis were murdered, along with thousands of Tutsi sympathizers, moderate Hutus, and other victims of atrocity Started when President Habyarimana’s plane was shot down by a missile; no survivors
Rwanda Art ● Art by: Jean Claude Davreux ● Created: 4/3/08 ● Painting; main focus is the child soldier
Imagery from Night “When at last a grayish light appeared on the horizon, it revealed a tangle of human shapes, heads sunk deeply between the shoulders, crouching, piled on top of the other, like a cemetery covered with snow” (Wiesel 98). Even in death they aren’t treated as human • • No proper burial • Humiliating position
Imagery from Art • • • Created to show the destruction in the 100 days after the west met Africa. Showed that children had to be part of the fighting and suffering. They weren’t spared from the suffering. Has a very significant amount of red, in the sky, water, and on machete blade; represents blood and destruction. Red usage, vulture, skulls, and blood-stained machete are all symbols of death The caption under painting states: “ 100 days, 1000 hills, 1. 000 dead. The Genocide in Rwanda, a meeting of the third type: West meets Africa. ”
Comparison of Imagery • Terrible essence of death • Both imply misery and non-proper death • Those who had survived in either situation would have been deeply traumatized for life
Motif from Night Death, Suffering, and Fear Throughout the book, the prisoners suffer through hardships every day, and they just get small portions of bread and soup, never knowing if it will be their last.
Motif from Art Death Almost all aspects of picture point to death and destruction: the usage of red, the vulture, the machete covered in blood, the skulls, even the demonic eyes of the child.
Comparison of Motif • • Both motifs involve the victims having to go through death in some way. Victims always suffering, and never knowing when the pain will stop; if it stops.
Works Cited Davreux, Jean Claude. Child Soldier. 3 Apr. 2008. Illustration. CHILD SOLDIER. Rosenberg, Jennifer. "Rwanda Genocide-A Short History of the Rwanda Genocide. " About. com 20 th Century History. About. com, n. d. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. <http: //history 1900 s. about. com/od/rwandangenocide/a/Rwanda-Genocide. htm>. Walker, Luke. "Rwandan Genocide. " World without Genocide. William Mitchell College of Law, 2012. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. <http: //worldwithoutgenocide. org/genocides-and-conflicts/ rwandan-genocide>. Wiesel, Elie. Night. Trans. Marion Wiesel. N. p. : Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.
