Rwanda; 10 years ago = the explosion

[Mike Teacher]

The explosion meaning when Hell landed on Earth; what happened after the plane carry the respective prez's of Burundi and Rwanda exploded.

The door to door killing started overnight, and the world watched, and watched.

800,000 dead? From April til July? Some says 800,000 in 100 days. That's 8,000 a day.

A stunning silence around the globe. And a reminder how often humans turn their surroundings into hell on earth, into slaughterhouses.

A Good Chronology (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/evil/etc/slaughter.html)



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[furie]

it should have been stopped


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[DarkHippie]

faster than the Holocaust, and many survivors have AIDS from the gang rape that went/goes on.

Yet no western leader was on hand for the memorial. A hidden tragedy.

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[TheMojoPin]

Quite possibly the biggest snafu (By simply not acting on it, at ALL) of Clinton's time in office, yet few people ever want to bring it up.

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[DarkHippie]

Quite possibly the biggest snafu (By simply not acting on it, at ALL) of Clinton's time in office, yet few people ever want to bring it up.
Not to excuse Clinton here, but after Somalia, there's no way he could've sent troops back to Africa without an major outrage back home.

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[TheMojoPin]

True.

Hindsight does end up biting you in the ass...we can criticize him NOW because we know what ultimately happened...but if he had stopped it BEFORE it reached those numbers, you're probably right as to the public and pundit reaction.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

And the Rwandans are just damned, period.

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[furie]

he could have sent troops in under the Canadian lead UN banner. that wouldn't have cause too much of an uproar.

And ultimately, you can't avoid doing the right thing because you're afraid of what CNN might say.


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[Yerdaddy]

Eventually he could have simply equipped and transported a coalition of African forces, but he decided they would have to buy the equipment and pay the trasportation costs. That's an oversimplification, though, and the UN peacekeeping commission, under Kofi Annan at the time, had an even larger role in preventing intervention than the Clinton administration. Annan however, did commission an investigation into his department's role and accepted responsibility. Clinton only seems to aknowledge responsibility for Rwanda with statements that "we were all to blame."

And it wasn't CNN but Congressional Republicans that would have come down on him for sacraficing American troops for a mission that "wasn't in our national interest" after they placed the blame for Somalia on him in public, even after republican Senator John Warner spread blame across the board from the military, CIA, and the congressional oversight committees themselves.

<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/national/magazine/dallaire/" target="_blank">Interview with Canadian Gen. Romeo Dallaire</a>

<a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679311718/homeimprov07d-20/702-3410156-5240018" target="_blank">his book</a>

An amazing book on the subject - <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312243359/ref=pd_bxgy_text_2/702-3410156-5240018" target="_blank">We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda</a>

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This message was edited by Yerdaddy on 4-8-04 @ 4:16 PM