Rwanda genoside 1994, Shake hands with the devil
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While the everyone were watching the OJ Simpson trial, 800 000 people got slaughtered in Rwanda. The Italians knew what was going to happen, before it took place, so did the French, Belgians, Americans and the UN, and they did NOTHING! There was one man who cared, who was there to witness what was happening, Roméo Dallaire on a UN mission, but he couldn't stop the killing by himself because of the lack of troops. When wasn't given any help by the UN or ANY other country despite pleading many times, the only thing he could do, was to save as many people as he could, at the same time risking his own life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424435/
Watched this documentary yesterday and it made me SO FUCKING MAD! The only time that foreign troops arrived to Rwanda, was when they came to rescue their own citizens, and NONE of them asked, could they help stop the killing! The did'nt care, because it was the Africans, the black people, killing each other. Mr Dallaire said, that if these troops had united, they could have stopped the killing.
This Documentary is something that EVERYONE should see. It really made me think that even the UN thinks that some peoples lifes are more valuable than others..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424435/
Watched this documentary yesterday and it made me SO FUCKING MAD! The only time that foreign troops arrived to Rwanda, was when they came to rescue their own citizens, and NONE of them asked, could they help stop the killing! The did'nt care, because it was the Africans, the black people, killing each other. Mr Dallaire said, that if these troops had united, they could have stopped the killing.
This Documentary is something that EVERYONE should see. It really made me think that even the UN thinks that some peoples lifes are more valuable than others..
...the dreams ain't broken down here now,
they're walking with a limp
they're walking with a limp
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ESPECIALLY the UN.
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The United Nations is THE wolf in sheeps clothing of our time.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
And I'm not trying too hard to defend the UN (they certainly aren't perfect and have helped much pain and suffering), but they do some good work too... The misson in Haiti alone is saving and improving countless lives.
and there are some around here that say no one should militarily intervene in these situations. what a joke. they have zero concept of the real world beyond their computer screen
did you sign up yet?
i might have if the military was only used for just causes such as stopping the genocide of innocent people
did you go to darfur and hold up signs?
come back and talk to me when you get a little older and get a better grasp of the real world.
yeah, great answers, that is really helping the hundreds of thousand of victims being raped, murdered, and having their homes burned to the ground
naive to an extreme
Also, my2hands. You may not completely agree with this, but for all intensive purposes, the only time we should absolutely see war and serious conflict in the world and where we're taking hardline steps to combat security and absolute wrong-doing is in this kind of instance. Genocide isn't something to be taken lightly or ignored or merely passed off. Seems like in the past few decades, the only wars that are deemed "necessary" revolve around our monetary interests and fullfilling some bs agenda which isn't absolute in its mission (war on drugs/terrorism) and has no realistic end or chance of succeeding in the long term. That's the real world for you.
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. - Louis Brandeis
As for how they could have stopped the genocide in Rwanda, Dallaire clearly outlines how often he warned the UN that it was going to happen. He knew they were making lists of who was Tutsi months ahead, he knew they had a huge stockpile of weaponry, and he told the UN. The stockpiled weapons was completely against the peace treaty the UN was there to help enforce, but the UN decided to do nothing about it. Simply by removing those weapons would have helped - at the very least it would have told the masterminds behind the genocide that they knew what they were up to.
Ultimately, we cannot force peace and acceptance upon unwilling people - but we need to walk a fine line, because morally we cannot stand by and let genocide happen. If you were on the street watching someone beat someone to death, do you think that you are morally obligated to help the victim? I do, as much as you can. I wouldn't expect anyone to sacrifice themselves, but they should do what they can. This is just a larger scale, in my opinion.