HitRed wrote:I always thought this deserved more coverage. In 100 days Hutu's killed between 500,000 to 1,000,000 Tutsi. Almost all by using sharp edge weapons. Then it was over. Makes me wonder if anywhere some spark could lead to chaos at any time.
I highly recommend this book,
Left to Tell. Clearly tells the story of a high school girl and the roaming bands hunting down anyone that might be Tutsi. Though, interestingly, there was no way to tell them apart.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immacul ... _Ilibagiza
Yeah, I've heard quite a few interviews with various Canadian officers who were there with the U.N. mission, calling home to try to get some help. They called everybody in the chain of command, right up to the U.N. Secretary-General. When that didn't work they tried to get past the chain of command. They called Ottawa, Washington, Brussels. The answer everywhere was, "it's very unlikely anyone wants to get involved in an operation of the scope that would be needed." Most nations pulled their troops out. All five major imperial powers (meaning the five permanent members of the UN Security Council) refused to get involved. Only Canada, New Zealand, and Ghana -- none of which are exactly military powerhouses -- increased their troop commitment.
In the same era, the West rushed to intervene in Kosovo after something between 5 and 10 thousand were killed in ethnically-motivated attacks there, but West was not interested in stopping the death of roughly a million in Rwanda. It's a really disgusting statement about how shallow public interest in world affairs really is.
