​ iolation #1: ​The Great Purge ( Soviet Union )   

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Violation #2: ​The Rwandan Genocide ( Africa ) 
 
 
 
Throughout history there have been many examples where groups of people have been 
denied their human rights. Individuals , groups , and governments have attempted to end 
many of these human rights violations although they have not always been successful. 
   
The Great Purges of 1936 through 1938 mark one of the darkest times in Soviet history. 
The Great Purge, also known as the Great Terror, marks a period of extreme persecution and 
oppression in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s.The worst nation to suffer from Stalin's 
purges in the Soviet Union were not the Russians - this is historian's' main argument against 
equating Stalinism and Hitler's fascism. Hitler's machine of extermination had been targeted 
at non-Germans. Fascists sought to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the 
national community as an organic entity in which individuals are bound together by 
suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood. However, although Stalin did 
enforce "russification" of the Soviet Union, his main enemies were his political opponents 
and their followers.The purges affected not only those who openly opposed Stalin, but 
ordinary people too.  
During Stalin's rule of the country over ​20 million people​ were sent to labor camps, 
where nearly half of them died. The cult of Stalin replaced churches with its icons , Also In 
the Ukraine he killed the people there seeking independence from his rule. As a result, an 
estimated 7,000,000 persons perished in this farming area, known as the breadbasket of 
Europe, with the people deprived of the food they had grow their food with their own hands. 
Stalin took advantage of the collective farms by being   
more vigorous with his demands than he originally planned, and starved the peasants by 
confiscating their personal food supply. One must observe these facts when arguing that 
this was the first step in creating the famine( Which was held by Stalin ), and attempting to 
discipline the peasants in order to achieve his desired refurbished government by 
frightening them with starvation. This shows that they weren't able to have any freedom or 
control which shows that this was ​Totalitarianism , ​which meant that stalin had "total" 
political power by state. And here is a quote that he lived by : 
“​Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.”-​ Stalin

Rwanda, a small country with an overwhelmingly agricultural economy, had one of the 
highest population densities in Africa. About 85 percent of its population is Hutu the rest is 
Tutsi, along with a small number of Twa, a Pygmy group who were the original inhabitants of 
Rwanda. In 1959, the Hutus overthrew the Tutsi monarchy and tens of thousands of Tutsis 
fled to neighbouring countries, including Uganda. A group of Tutsi exiles formed a rebel 
group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which invaded Rwanda in 1990 and fighting 
continued until a 1993 peace deal was agreed.   
   
From April to July 1994, members of the Hutu ethnic majority in the east-central 
African nation of Rwanda murdered as many as 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi 
minority. Begun by extreme Hutu nationalists in the capital of Kigali, the genocide spread 
throughout the country with staggering speed and brutality, as ordinary citizens were 
incited by local officials and the Hutu Power government to take up arms against their 
neighbors. By the time the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front gained control of the country 
through a military offensive in early July, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were dead and 
many more displaced from their homes. 
   
Rwanda has always been a tightly controlled society, organised like a pyramid from 
each district up to the top of government. The then governing party, MRND, had a youth 
wing called the Interahamwe, which was turned into a militia to carry out the slaughter. 
Weapons and hit-lists were handed out to local groups, who knew exactly where to find their 
targets. The civil war and ​genocide​ only ​ended​ when the Tutsi-dominated rebel group, the 
RPF, defeated the Hutu perpetrator regime and President Paul Kagame took control. Which 
Shows that since it's rumored that the Tutsi shot down the Hutu presidents plane down that 
the Hutu have ​Nationalism ,​ and they love their small country so much that they’ll do 
whatever to revenge his death , so by killing off the Tutsi they make them hopeless and give 
them no other option but to surrender and in the end the Hutu gets there land.