Rwanda
My junior year in high school I was enrolled in a class called "Current Problems and Issues". Mid-semester we watched a movie that opened my eyes to a whole other world. The movie was called Hotel Rwanda. The movie was based on true events that took place during genocidal violence that occurred in Rwanda between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups in 1994. The Hutu military and militias killed almost one million Tutsis in a period of barely three months. I can honestly say that this film opened my eyes to what was going on in the world around me. It baffled me to think that something of this caliber occurred so recently and I had never even heard of it. After learning about the Rwandan genocide I was fascinated by it. Ever since then I have felt a connection with Rwanda which is why I chose Rwanda for this paper. Hopefully, this paper will make you as fascinated as I am with the country of Rwanda.
The first inhabitants of Rwanda were called the Twa, not the Tutsi or......
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