Investor Presentaiton
PAST GENOCIDES
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THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE
Took place in Rwanda in 1994 in a span of about three
months.
Resulted in the murder of 800,000 Rwandans, nearly all of the
Tutsi ethnic-minority.
In 1959, the Hutu revolted and forced the Tutsi monarchy as
well as hundreds of thousands of Tutsi into exile. In 1990, a
mostly-Tutsi force invaded Rwanda. The president accused the
Tutsi and between 1990 and 1993, the government arrested
and killed hundreds of Tutsi. In 1993, the president allowed a
transition of government to include the force that invaded in
1990. Hutu extremists became angry, killed the president in
1994, and immediately began the Tutsi genocide.
The UN Security Council sent a force of over 5,000 troops.
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THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
⚫ Took place in the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1922.
Resulted in the murder of 600,000-1.5 million Armenians.
Those that weren't killed were forced into exile.
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As a Christian minority in a Muslim majority country,
Armenians long faced discrimination in the Ottoman Empire
from their Turkish counterparts. They were first massacred
from 1894-1896 through state-sanctioned pogroms. In WWI,
the Ottoman Empire entered on the Central Powers' side, but
the Armenians volunteered on the Allied Powers' side. This
ramped up Turkish suspicions that the Armenians weren't loyal
to the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish pushed for the "removal""
of the Armenians from the war. The genocide began April
1915.
Turkey denies anything happens and the West has not
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