Response: The events in Rwanda show that genocide can still happen, despite the impact of the Holocaust.
Explanation/context:
The genocide in Rwanda had arisen out of problems created by colonialism in that country. The Dutch colonial government had favored the Tutsi people over the Hutus. That played into the violence by Hutus against Tutsis when the Hutus came into power in Rwanda. When the genocide began to occur, the international community mostly did nothing. Bill Clinton, who was America's president at the time, refers to inaction toward the Rwanda situation as one of the greatest regrets of his presidency.
The Holocaust was an act of genocide, motivated by racial hatred of a people -- in that case, Jewish people. Similarly, the genocide in Rwanda was motivated by racial and ethnic hatred which had been inflamed by the way that Dutch colonial governors favored one tribal group over another based on a lighter shade of skin color.
