Massacre in Africa happened while our heads were turned

Virginia Beach Virginia Norfolk Virginian Pilot Ledger Star ^ | 09 Apr 2003 | Bronwyn Lance Chester

[wardaddy]

The world pays the MOST attention when whites are misbehaving towards non-whites or darker caucasians or non Christian whites.

It's a hostile PC world.

Examine the decades of furor over South Africa and Rhodesia (and the wonderful aftermath of curing that) and compare it to the historical atrocities repeatedly in the Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Somalia, Algeria...etc.

The world views making second class citizens of folks as worse than slaughtering them...unless it's folks of color making second class citizens of other folks of color.

We hold whites to a higher standard. Isn't that racist sort of?

[wardaddy]

He publicly admitted he was late to respond. Follow the money..find Kofi.
He has bigger fish to fry than the travesties of his continent.

[dfwgator]

Eight hundred thousand lives in 1994. Why doesn't the world act?

Because according to the late Francois Mitterand, "In a country like Rwanda, a genocide isn't that important." I hope Francois is rotting in hell.

[dfwgator]

Bill Clinton and Madeleine Korbel refused to use the word "genocide" to describe what was happening in Rwanda, because it was an mid-term election year in 1994, and fresh off the debacle that was Somalia they didn't want to risk it. Had they used the word "genocide" it would have implied an obligation to take action. Clinton encouraged the UN to abandon their operations, and as a result of this perceived weakness, 11 Belgian soldiers representing the UN was slaughtered along with the many Tutsis. It was this one event that convinced me that once and for all the UN is a worthless organization. It recently proved it again in the Congo.

[dfwgator]

Let's face it: The US is the only country that is strong enough, moral enough, and generous enough to put its soldiers in danger to stop a genocide.

DAMN STRAIGHT!!!

[maestro]

Your# 30)........Uh,...Kofi,...Koffi,...Kofffii,...U.N.,...!!!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Where are the human shields and why aren't they doing anything about this?

[Lijahsbubbe]

Great point.

And where's Sean Penn, why doesn't he take a look-see over there?

[BlackVeil]

Thanks for those figures, informative. I share your opinion on most African nations, I am just not optimistic.