- Step 1: Classification- The people were separated into three main groups, the Tutsi’s, the Hutu’s, and the Twa’s. The Tutsi’s were people who owned a lot of cattle, and the Hutu’s were everybody else. The Twa’s were small groups of hunters that lived in Rwanda.
- Step 2: Symbolization- The Hutu’s and Tutsi’s had a very small difference in appearance. The Hutu’s, however, made everybody wear cards, or I.D.’s that made it easier to tell who was who.
- Step 3: Dehumanization- The Hut’s thought of the Tutsi’s as pests, as something less than human.
- Step 4: Organization- There was a lot of organization in the Rwandan genocide. The Hutu’s had well staged plans on attacking the Tutsi’s. They also used a lot of propaganda to enforce their attacks and they had weapons that were ordered to be shipped in at certain times.
- Step 5: Polarization- The Hutu’s used the plane crash with the president as a good excuse to blame the Tutsi’s. They wanted everyone to think that the Hutu’s were better than the Tutsi’s.
- Step 6: Preparation- Organizations derived by Hutu’s planned all attacks on the Tutsi’s perfectly. They Identified their prey with the I.D. cards that they had given out priorly.
- Step 7: Extermination- The attack on the Tutsi’s had been all planned out and once the signal was given the genocide started. Millions of lives were lost from both sides over this one-hundred day battle.
- Step 8: Denial- Everybody tried to deny the obvious fact that it was genocide. They used the excuse that it was a simple civil war in Rwanda. After thorough investigation was done it was finally admitted as genocide ("The Stages of Genocide").
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