Rwanda

The two major ethnic groups in Rwanda are:

• Hera and Tari

• Hutu and Tari

• Hutu and Tulsi

• Hutu and Tutsi

What is the definition of a genocide?

• A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
• The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
• Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
• Preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.

What are human rights?

• Rights only the richest are entitled to.
• Rights that all people have simply because they are human.
• A responsibility that people have as humans.
• Rights that only children have.

A major goal of the Hutu-led regime in Rwanda in mid-1994 was to

• eliminate the Tutsi minority

• align with the Soviet Union

• promote ethnic tolerance

• strengthen ties with Belgium

What was the main reason refugees fled Rwanda in the 1990s?

• ethnic conflict

• expansion of the Sahael

• devastation from an earthquake

• Cold War tensions

One way in which the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (1915) and the Tutsis in Rwanda (1994) are similar is that both groups

• sought safe haven in the Soviet Union

• suffered human rights violations

• seceded to create an independent state

• fled to escape a severe flood

The South African government's policy of racial separation between 1948 and 1994 was called

• Pan-Africanism

• democratization

• apartheid

• suffrage

In the second half of the 20th century, what was one action taken by both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu?

• protesting against apartheid in South Africa

• supporting the white government of Rhodesia

• sending troops to liberate captives in Sudan

• leading the independence movement in Ghana