What are some Push/Pull Factors of Rwanda Genocide?
Rwanda had been a very unstable country for quite some time when the genocide of 1994 occurred. There had been a civil war, various rebel groups fighting for power and refugee populations shifting away from the fighting. When the genocide occurred, many of the same push/pull factors were involved, but they happened in a faster way. The major push factors had to do with refugees fleeing the murder that was taking place once it started, Tutsis who were trying to make it to Tutsi-controlled areas so they would be safe, or leaving the country altogether. Violence on this scale is a very powerful push factor. It happened again at the end of the genocide when the Tutsi recaptured the government and the capital, and 2 million Hutus fled to Congo in fear for their lives. The major “pull” factor was the pull of home, and the desire to return there to family and to what’s familiar once the violence had stopped. It’s difficult to live on the run or in a refugee camp, and this pull factor brought
