Reserch paper on the Bone Women

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Genocide Research Paper Topic Proposal

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The Rwandan genocide was a mass slaughter that took place in Rwandan 1990 civil war. The war was politically triggered as the Hutu people felt that it was hard to overthrow the government that government due to the high numbers of the Tutsi people. Within 100 days of April 1994 to mid-July 1994, an approximated number of 500,000 to 1 million people from the Tutsi community had been slaughtered a number that constituted approximately 70% of the Rwandese Tutsi population. Also, an approximated 30% of the Pygmy Batwa was also killed during the war, and the Rwandan genocide was ranked as the highest regarding some deaths from the WW1. After President Paul Kagame took over the country and the capital city, peace and order were gradually restored though not without an approximated 2 million Hutu people becoming misplaced and refugees. The international world played a major role in the establishment of peace in Rwanda as well as bringing the perpetrators to book. The impact of this war have been felt and continues to be felt in Rwanda decades down the line as the Rwandese people set out a day to remember the sufferings and pains that people faced. According to Koff, (2004); international agencies and diplomats tried to address the situation as well as unraveling the hidden truth of the real situation in Rwanda.

As a result of the war, a huge number of survivors particularly children and women were left with different types of scars. Some scars are physical, others emotional, and others psychological. For instance, some women were raped during the war, and they became pregnant thus giving birth to children whom they could not tell of their biological fathers. The children who were born as a result of rape suffer an emotional and psychological scar as they cannot tell of their real identity (Krieger, 2011). There were also children who had their parents killed during the war and have lived as orphans and others became street children and those who were lucky to find shelter did not manage to get educated socially because the government has suffered an acute economic downturn. Some women and children have lived with physical disability after getting injured during the war, and the massive loss and pain made some women lose their mental ability. All these challenges left permanent scars in the bodies and spirits of the children and women of the time. This research shall hence strive to identify the various scars that women and children suffered after the Rwandan genocide and how the victims have strived to cope.

Research Bibliography

Benda, R. M. (2013). The test of faith: Christians and Muslims in the Rwandan genocide (Doctoral dissertation, University of Manchester).

Bizumuremyi, I. M. (2012). The Mapping Exercise on Child Protection Programs in Rwanda.

Doan, L. A. (2010). Rwandan women and the 1994 genocide: The effect on their social and political roles (Doctoral dissertation, Georgetown University).

Krieger, L. (2011). Narratives of resilience: Stories of survival among Rwandan women who endured the 1994 genocide.

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Koff, C. (2004). The bone woman: A forensic anthropologist's search for truth in the mass graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. New York: Random House.

Muke, N. (2016). Ministry of reconciliation in the context of ethnic ideology and genocide: a theological evaluation of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda (Doctoral dissertation, Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University).

Prins, G. (2017). Mass Rape and Genocide: International Law and the Increased Need for Deterrence Regarding War Crimes Committed During Civil Conflict (Doctoral dissertation).

Segalo, P. (2015). Trauma and gender. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 9(9), 447-454.

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