Classification: found in Night
The first stage to compare to Night is
Classification. The classification used for the Darfur Genocide is “killing any
members of a group” and “causing bodily or mentally harm to other members of a
group”. This isn’t hard to see from just some of the pictures and incidents
described of the gruesome killings everyday in Sudan. The book Night
by Elie Wiesel also has nearly the same classifications in the story or if
not more. The Holocaust that occurred with the Jews just as well as the genocide
in Darfur isn’t a pretty site. The throwing of women, babies, and children into
fire pits definitely falls under “causing bodily harm to other members of a
group.” But there were even more a classification in the book than there is in
my mind during the Darfur Genocide. The two that come to mind are “transferring
kids from one group to another group” and “Imposing measure intended to prevent
births within a group.” Unlike in Darfur were killing seems to be the answer to
everything, the Jews were treated different. Instead they had to do hard
physical labor and were tortured almost with the way they had to live. If you
were a healthy man u would work but everyone who didn’t fit this category found
out in a hurry that there life would come to a smoldering halt. This obviously
was another reason to make sure that there was no births at the time and off
course if they are making the healthy men and children work than that is
considered taking them from one group to another. Below I have a picture of the
kids in Darfur and the men living in a concentration camp take a look at how
similar the two really are.
Classification. The classification used for the Darfur Genocide is “killing any
members of a group” and “causing bodily or mentally harm to other members of a
group”. This isn’t hard to see from just some of the pictures and incidents
described of the gruesome killings everyday in Sudan. The book Night
by Elie Wiesel also has nearly the same classifications in the story or if
not more. The Holocaust that occurred with the Jews just as well as the genocide
in Darfur isn’t a pretty site. The throwing of women, babies, and children into
fire pits definitely falls under “causing bodily harm to other members of a
group.” But there were even more a classification in the book than there is in
my mind during the Darfur Genocide. The two that come to mind are “transferring
kids from one group to another group” and “Imposing measure intended to prevent
births within a group.” Unlike in Darfur were killing seems to be the answer to
everything, the Jews were treated different. Instead they had to do hard
physical labor and were tortured almost with the way they had to live. If you
were a healthy man u would work but everyone who didn’t fit this category found
out in a hurry that there life would come to a smoldering halt. This obviously
was another reason to make sure that there was no births at the time and off
course if they are making the healthy men and children work than that is
considered taking them from one group to another. Below I have a picture of the
kids in Darfur and the men living in a concentration camp take a look at how
similar the two really are.
Polarization: Found in Hotel Rwnada
In Hotel Rwanda, there are two main groups that are part of the
Genocide. One being the Hutu, who were the killers and the other group,
is the Tutsi. In the very beginning of the movie, it shows why the two
tribes are split and it also shows what tribe is the dominate one. It is
when Paul is picked up from the airport by his hotel worker, and they are
driving back through town when they turn a corner and start driving right
into a Hutu march, where they are forced to pull off to the side of the
road. As they are sitting there, the driver tells Paul that they know he is a
Tutsi, “Sit up, don’t attract attention to us, Just smile”, Paul said. Right
after Paul said that, a few members of the march walk over to the car
door and make him role down the window, who are you? They asked.
The only thing Paul could do was hold up the Hutu flag that he had
because he was a Hutu but his wife was a Tutsi, and then chant Hutu
power, Hutu power. The ways the groups in both Hotel Rwanda and in the
Darfur genocide split up were two different ways. In Hotel Rwanda, they
split because the Hutu had way to much power, but in Darfur they split up
because members of one tribe didn’t like the beliefs of the tribe anymore
and they were rebelling.
Genocide. One being the Hutu, who were the killers and the other group,
is the Tutsi. In the very beginning of the movie, it shows why the two
tribes are split and it also shows what tribe is the dominate one. It is
when Paul is picked up from the airport by his hotel worker, and they are
driving back through town when they turn a corner and start driving right
into a Hutu march, where they are forced to pull off to the side of the
road. As they are sitting there, the driver tells Paul that they know he is a
Tutsi, “Sit up, don’t attract attention to us, Just smile”, Paul said. Right
after Paul said that, a few members of the march walk over to the car
door and make him role down the window, who are you? They asked.
The only thing Paul could do was hold up the Hutu flag that he had
because he was a Hutu but his wife was a Tutsi, and then chant Hutu
power, Hutu power. The ways the groups in both Hotel Rwanda and in the
Darfur genocide split up were two different ways. In Hotel Rwanda, they
split because the Hutu had way to much power, but in Darfur they split up
because members of one tribe didn’t like the beliefs of the tribe anymore
and they were rebelling.