Saturday, June 9, 2007

Its no one's problem

Amongst the battles, the Small UN peacekeeping force has been overwhelmed with the terrified Tutsi and politician seeking protection
What is sad thought is that after ten soldiers from Belgium were captured by the Hutus, tortured, and murdered, the United States, France, Italy and Belgium began to evacuate their troops from Rwanda.
No efforts were made to evacuate the Tutsi civilians or Hutu moderates; they were left behind at the mercy of the brutal Hutu.
“Back at U.N headquarters in New York, the killings were initially categorized as a breakdown in the cease-fire between the Tutsi and Hutu. Throughout the massacre, both the U.N. and the U.S. carefully refrained from labeling the killings as genocide, which would have necessitated some kind of emergency intervention. “
After the Red Cross estimated that hundreds of thousands of Tunsi had been massacred in a span of fifteen days, the U.N Security council responded by an unanimous vote to abandon Rwanda. All except for 200 soldiers were evacuated from the country
Apparently it’s no ones problem

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