Excercises 1,2, 3

Exercise 1

Question A: Yes

Question B: Yes

Question C: No

Question D:Yes 

Question E: No

Exercise 2 

2A:  Question A

2B: Question C 

2C: Question A   Real answer is B 

2D: Question C 

2E: Question A 

Exercise 3

What effects did the Black Death have on the development of the scientific community?

New Genocide Law

GenocideMing Feng Schnorr     Tyler Frost
    In response to what the world has witnessed through the events in Rwanda and the mass killings of the Tutsi people. The United Nations was warned multiple times from different sources of the possible genocide. The members of the U.N. stood there and watched for months while about a million Rwandans were killed. Loopholes in the old Genocide Law, made the U.N. more reluctant in calling the events in Rwanda a genocide.
    When there are over 5,000 deaths based on a certain characteristic then that mass killing will be considered a genocide. The local UN force will be in charge of the death count. The local government has to report accounts of mass killings to the UN and let the U.N. forces report the the U.N. council. If the local government fail to report the killings but an outside source reports mass killings then it will still count. Every country that is part of the U.N. must have at least 1,000 men ready to fight for the U.N.. Those men must be trained to counteract regular warfare and guerrilla warfare. Once the set critique of the deaths has been reached a set number of countries will be forced to intervene and send their troops. The objective for these troops is the protect the targeted population and counteract the opposing force. Along with troops, countries will be required to send out heavy defensive and offensive machinery. The troops will secure a region in the country, declared a safe haven for any victims.

Post-Genocide Rwanda

1. In what ways did genocide impact the development of this "developing" country?
A lot of people left so there were less people to rebuild towns and villages. The people that survived the genocide were wounded and had lost their hands so they couldn't help a lot. There were so many people being tried in court that the courts were overflowing with cases. The military branch that ended the genocide, established a "Government of National Unity".

2. Where does the rebuilding of a country shattered by genocide begin? What can the people do? What can the government do? What can the international community do?
The rebuilding of a country shattered by the genocide needs to begin with them forming a stable government, then they need to take care of the people by rebuilding things that were destroyed, then they need to punish everybody that was guilty. The people can build their own houses, rat out people that helped in the crimes and stay calm. The government can establish itself so it has ways to deal with problems and get help from other government. The international community can send food and other supplies to those that survived the genocide and are wounded. 

3. How can justice be found in post-genocide Rwanda?
Justice can be found in post-genocide Rwanda by having leaders and people of importance being tried in courts around the country. Also there are community community courts that the people of the villages are the judges and they deal with them.

4. Which can bring justice to the people of Rwanda more effectively - international courts or community courts? Explain.
Community courts are more effective and fair because it lets the people that have been effected by the person under question be the judges so they know personally how it is fair. Also it is much faster then the international courts so the prisoners aren't stuck in jails for years and years. 

The International Community's Response

1. When did Un officials receive warnings about the genocide?
   In 1994 by the international human rights groups. Three months before the genocide.

2. Besides the warning given by one of the planners, what were other warning signs of the genocide?
The other warning signs were training of militias in Rwanda, government also openly sponsored hate propaganda, and death list were circulated.

3. How did state-sponsored propaganda present the Tutsi group?
They presented the Tutsi group as evil and manipulative people who were cockroaches and snakes and whose ultimate goal was to regain power and return Rwanda to a country that mistreated teh Hutu people.

4. What prevented the international community from calling the violence in Rwanda "genocide"? What would have happened if they had?
Because of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide agreement. It made them more cautious to calling it genocide because it was a mass killing and had other criteria so they would have to be legally obligated to intervene and stop the violence. If they would of called it genocide they would be legally obligated to intervene there and send troops and other support to stop the genocide. There would of been a lot less people that died and it would of ended much sooner.

5. Once the international community withdrew its troops, what did the militia decide to do?
   The militia intensified the genocide, targeting resistors and officials who opposed the genocide.

6. Who does President Clinton say must share responsibility for the genocide? 
   President Clinton says that the international community, together with nations in Africa.

Valentina's Story

1. Imagine that you were Valentina. What would you do or say if you were confronted by Bagaruka in the village after the genocide?
     I would tell him to get away from me now or I'm going to get the cops over here and arrest you.

2. Put yourself in the shoes of Denis Bagaruka. How could you kill all of these innocent people? What would you have to do to create mindset that would make it possible for you to murder innocent women, men, and children?
      I could not really kill all of those innocent people. I would have to be so scared of the people around me and value my life a lot. I would have to be so scared to think that if I didn't kill those people then the other people would kill me. I would have to be so selfish to think that my life was more valuable then dozens of other lives. To make myself feel better I would think to myself that if I didn't kill these people fast and painless then somebody else will surely kill them slowly and painfully.

3. What kind of punishment should Bagaruka be given?
     Bagaruka should be given at the minimum a life sentence in jail. The second worst thing that would be legal would be to die from hanging, lethal injection, or the electric chair. The worst thing would be to have all the people that were affected from Bagaruka go to a room look him in there with him and let them do whatever they want.

4. Try to put yourself in Valentina's shoes. It is three years after the end of the genocide. In what ways does the genocide still impact your daily life?
    I would be impacted from the scars left behind. The fact that I have basically no family members left. The memories of what I was put through would haunt me in my dreams almost every night. I would feel alone because I would be a "Tutsi" in a "Hutu" world.