Rwandan Genocide

Indications of Genocide in the Bisesero Hills

According to a report of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR),1 the Bisesero Region (see image 2, down below) was the target of near-daily attacks in the period between April 9 and June 30, 1994. The attackers used firearms, grenades machetes, spears, clubs, and other weapons. Transportation used by the attackers included a variety of small and large vehicles. The attackers included gendarmes, communal policemen from Gishyita and Gisovu, armed civilians, and Interahamwe (an unofficial para-military group made up exclusively of extremist Hutu).

Resistance

Modern genocides have been stopped in various ways. The Nazi Holocaust during World War II ended only in the face of a massive external military on­slaught mounted on two fronts, by both the Allies and the Soviet Union. Jewish and Soviet partisans, and resistance movements in Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Italy, Greece, and France all inflicted significant casualties on Nazi forces, in some cases causing substantial losses, but such indigenous opposition played a secondary role in the defeat of the Hitler regime.

GIS & Remote Sensing

The primary benefit of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the ability to interrelate spatially multiple types of information assembled from a range of sources. These data do not necessarily have to be visual. GIS “shape files” are helpful for interpolating and visualizing many other types of data, e.g. demographic data. Many research models rely on the ability to analyze and extract information from images by using a variety of computer-available research tools and then express these findings as part of a project with images in a variety of layers and scenes.

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