Rwandan Genocide: Atheism and the Problem of Good

In 1994, the soil of Rwanda go through iodin of the worlds greatest tragedies since the Holocaust. Rwanda became ill-famed for one of the fastest and near opinionated genocides in gracious history; all aft(prenominal) the world as a whole (through the UN) had vowed to stop much(prenominal) bloodshed from ever accident again. Following the fiery oddment of a president, the whole country was sent into chaos, and in the prevail of only 100 days, 800,000 tribe were killed. Of these, nearly all were from one of three ethnic  groups natural to Rwanda; the Tutsi. In total, roughly 80 percent of the total Tutsi tribe was eradicated in the genocide, along with a small number of the majority Hutu racial group that sympathized with those organism slaughtered. How can much(prenominal) an organized, systematic mass murder be explained? The answer is not a simple one, and many antithetic historical and political factors in truth led to Rwandas planetual depravity into being clinically idle as a nation. [1] The al-Qaeda cause of this tragedy was a long-running competition between the Tutsi (who were in great power for centuries), and the majority Hutu peoples, who came to power in the rebellion of 1959 -1962.\n simply how and why did this competition even start? Its origins are perplex by issues going cover song as far as the German colonization of the portion in 1894, which served to cause a major schism passim the country. The aftermath of this schism went on to be compounded by numerous future events which brought the entire population to the breaking organize not only once, scarce twice in the prehistorical 60 years. Due to the genocides grow in political history, it is explicable through human, finite reasons such as the common atheistic viewpoints regarding the Problem of Good. In fact, many atheist moral theories do appear in the manikin of Rwandas colonial and post-colonial historical events, though the vast majority of them sear ch to have questionable rigor at best. By spirit at the past co...