EQ: What allows some individuals to take a stand against prejudice and oppression while others choose to participate in it?
Bloodshed leaves scars they never fade and images that are never forgotten. The typical attitude towards such mercilessness and cruelty is that it's morally wrong and efforts should be made to stop such tyranny immediately. But what how is that there are people who are involved in these acts of injustice? It is the mindset that is manipulated by belief, life experiences and cognitive dissonance. In the articles "Taken over by Satan" and "Children of Rwanda's Genocide", they both portray the devastating effects after the genocide and the reasoning behind the mass murdering.
Rwanda was a country that was split into two distinctive ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis. Tutsis believed that Hutu were low-class and they deserved little respect. As a result, the Hutu militia retaliated by commencing a campaign of terror by exterminating the Tutsi population. In Taken Over by Satan, a first person perspective from a Hutu who participated in the genocide is given to convey the darkness of the Hutus' actions. It was said that it was if they were "taken over by Satan"...
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