What Have I Learned?

What have I learned? Better question would be what HAVEN’T I learned? Well I've learned LOTS! We discussed the subject about Rwanda for about a week or two. The first few days I was like "who on Gods green earth is he talking about?!?” I'm sure I wasn't the only person saying this or something like it.



I mainly realized that I didn't know much when we did the little self judging! Out of 10 we were suppose to rate ourselves on how well we knew this subject. Ten being we would ace a test or quiz and 1 we would fail miserably! I rated my self a 3! Ouch, that’s like saying that all I know is that a lot of people died, Rwanda is on planet earth, and possibly on the continent Africa or Asia!


After the little self judging thingy we each explained what we knew and after having the discussion open for about 15 min. I had a little view on it. Not the whole picture but a little puzzle piece. Anyways here what I have put together so far!


Blaming will always go around for the genocide of 1994 in Rwanda. But there will be questions that will go around for a while. But who is really responsible for it? Who started it? When will all end? Why didn’t it get any help or attention? I could go on for a while asking the questions but let me get straight to the blaming.


First off Belgium won Rwanda from Germany after WWII. After colonizing it for a few years, they decide to make some sort of identity cards. The catch was that people who owned more than 10 cows were considered Tutsi (15% of the population that has more power). Being a Tutsi was like being a White man in the 1950’s and the Hutus being an African American. After a while they gave all power to the Tutsis and left because there weren’t any more natural recourse to steal.


After a while the two groups started going at each others throats and started fighting! To tell you the truth I don’t know if the U.N. (United Nations) were on vacation or at Disney Land but they say that they are here on this earth to help resolve world problems but some how they missed the entire “About 800 thousand people died in the genocide of Rwanda” special on CNN! The United States could have done something to help but they didn’t. I understand that they got humiliated in another country in Africa where a few soldiers’ bodies were dragged on the streets. The US never said that they were always going to try to solve world problems (even though they always seem like they try to). They should have at least sent some support because the only threat was a lot of people attacking you with Machetes while you have fully automatic M16’s with the perk bandolier (extra ammunition) attached! Anyways I could go on for hours blaming other groups (even though everyone knows Belgium started it all) but to sum it all up in 5 short words.

I HAVE LEARNED A LOT!