I cannot believe this tragedy happened, I watched Hotel Rwanda and I cannot believe that not a single government was willing to supply troops or money not even the tinniest fraction of their armed budget into stopping the genocide, even the US State Department only said "acts of Genocide" not Genocide. Whats wrong with them? How many people have to die or be moved before it becomes wrong? 600? 10,000? 100,000? A Million!? How many!?
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
I'm not sure the question is whether or not it's wrong. I think the question is whether or not we want to make the wrong acts of other nations our business.
The answer to that is very complicated --
But I agree with you. It seems like we could have and should have done something differently, there.
Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
quote:I think the question is whether or not we want to make the wrong acts of other nations our business.
Exactly.
Posted by King of Men (Member # 6684) on :
Europe has been there once. It ended in tears, independence movements, and genocides. Do we really want to be imposing order on Africa again? If we did, would you please shut up about neo-colonialism?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Ah, but it shouldn't be a matter if we WANT to do it, its a matter that even if we don't want to do it we HAVE to do it out of a moral duty to safe guard the basic human rights, we have the moral obligation has signatories of the United Nations thingy on Human Rights to prevent and stop acts of Genocide.
The West turned a blind eye to Hitler until it was almsot too late and even then 1/6 of all Jews in the world were killed, do any of us really want to allow that to happen again?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
KoM, its not NeoColonialism to do what it takes to prevent genocide, the Rwandian Military could've been pressured into stopping the "get together" massare squads, 20,000 UN peace keepers could've broken up the violence, could've protected refugee camps from the slaughter and greater assistance to the RPF could've allowed the rebel movement to have succeeded faster and ended the violence quicker.
What makes Serbia worth more effort then an African nation?
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
It's already happening, and we aren't doing anything.
Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :
It gets worse. The nations of the world weren't willing to intervene, but the Canadian general in charge of UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda was, when a Hutu informant told him what was being planned and where the weapons to carry it out were stored. He was explicitly ordered by the UN High Commissioner not to compromise the UN's neutrality by doing anything to prevent the genocide. When it began, the UN peacekeeping forces were ordered to withdraw and let it happen.
800K murders later, the UN High Commissioner got what was coming to him: the job of Secretary-General. His name is Kofi Annan.
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