Human Migration and the Crisis in Rwanda (1994)

Around the world and in our own communities, people move in and out of places every day, and they have done so throughout human history. Their patterns of movement reflect the conditions of the changing world and, in turn, impact the cultural landscapes of the places they leave and the places they settle in ways that often last for many centuries. These marks on a area include new ethnic births, new spoken languages, new traditions, new food, music, clothes, and among other. According to the dictionary, human migration is any movement by humans from one location to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups. The movement of people in modern times is composed of voluntary and involuntary migration which includes slave trade, trafficking, natural disasters, economic reasons or war. People who migrate are called migrants, or to be more specific, settlers. Sometimes forced migration has been means of social control under regimes for example in 1994 the fighting in Rwanda led to the massacre of at least half a million Tutsis by the Hutus. For two years Hutu militants, fearful of act of vengeance for the massacres, kept the refugees in exile. During December and November of 1996, it became a crisis as the civil war in Zaire cut off of more than half a million Hutu refugees from food and medical supplies. Faced with this situation they became desperate and began to turn for help to the UN. This desperate cry for help followed by Tanzania giving its Hutu refugees orders to return to Rwanda but, many fled to other countries instead. Rwanda is a perfect example of involuntary migration. Even though the reasons were different for the Tutsis and the Hutus, they both were forced to move because of a war.
***From the view point of the Tutsis -They were forced to move or stay in Rwanda and die.
***From the view point of the Hutus- Stay and watch family, friends, and neighbors be killed and have no food or move to a safe location and not have your children see all the horrors.