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Rwandans blame world for not stopping genocide
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| 4/4/04
Posted on 04/04/2004 10:48:22 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone
WHERE WAS THE U.N.?
LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH IRAQI OIL FOR FOOD?
Accusing the U.S. of mickey-mouse "abuses"? WHERE WAS THE U.N.?
LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH IRAQI OIL FOR FOOD?
Accusing the U.S. of mickey-mouse "abuses"?
WHERE WAS THE U.N.?
LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH IRAQI OIL FOR FOOD?
Accusing the U.S. of mickey-mouse "abuses"?
WHERE WAS THE U.N.?
LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH IRAQI OIL FOR FOOD?
Accusing the U.S. of mickey-mouse "abuses"?
WHERE WAS THE U.N.?
LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH IRAQI OIL FOR FOOD?
Accusing the U.S. of mickey-mouse "abuses"?
WHERE WAS THE U.N.?
LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH IRAQI OIL FOR FOOD?
Accusing the U.S. of mickey-mouse "abuses"?
WHERE WAS THE U.N.? LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH IRAQI OIL FOR FOOD? Accusing the U.S. of mickey-mouse "abuses"?
WHERE WAS THE U.N.?
LINING THEIR POCKETS WITH IRAQI OIL FOR FOOD?
Accusing the U.S. of mickey-mouse "abuses"?
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posted on
04/04/2004 11:33:03 AM PDT
by
Publius6961
(50.3% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks (subject to a final count).)
To: Enterprise
That almost sounds like a Monty Python scenario.
It certainly did.
But, aside from the cowardice of Kofi Annan, Clinton, Albright, Clarke, etc.,
these unarmed guards must have had nerves of steel...facing off gangs
of murderers (many drunk) armed with machetes, hatchets and guns.
The PBS FrontLine show also did a good job talking about a Seventh-Day Adventist aid
worker (Wilkens) who was the ONLY American to ride out the genocide in Kigali, as well as
the story of a UN-Senaglese soldier who covertly (and against UN orders) smuggled
lots of Tutsis to safety...until he was killed by smoe stray morar shrapnel.
I highly recommend the PBS FrontLine special -- a masterpiece in documenting
real-life profiles in courage AND cowardice.
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posted on
04/04/2004 11:34:54 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: VOA
I will make it a point of watching it if I can. In all seriousness, the heroics of a few people would make as compelling a story as Schindler's List.
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posted on
04/04/2004 11:43:39 AM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Do you know who I am?")
To: VOA
I highly recommend the PBS FrontLine special -- a masterpiece in documenting real-life profiles in courage AND cowardice.Ghosts of Rwanda
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posted on
04/04/2004 11:48:03 AM PDT
by
Azzurri
To: areafiftyone
Any money or energy we give to the U.N. is a total waste. If I had a say I would kick their sorry asses out of American and let then find a building in some third world country.
To: VOA
I agree the Frontline piece was surprisingly good and even reflected unfavorably on folks who usually are untouchable on PBS. Too bad it took
10 years for a major player in the US media to cover the story in depth.
I also agree that the crazed bands of weak, ill-equipped Hutu murderers roaming the Rwandan countryside with nothing more than machetes could have been stopped in their tracks by a few thousand well-disciplined international troops.
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posted on
04/04/2004 11:56:52 AM PDT
by
beckett
To: Bismarck
Foreign powers carved the continenet in to nations with no regard for historical and tribal issues. Foreign powers pushed for tribal strife when it served their political aims. Foreign powers fought any and all efforts to reform nations to better reflect the desires of the people. Foreign powers continue to fund and arm certain groups and nations in an effort to control the political landscape.
Rwanda has plenty to be blamed for, but they didn't create this mess on their own.
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posted on
04/04/2004 12:09:49 PM PDT
by
sharktrager
(Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage)
To: areafiftyone
Where was Jesse Jackson? Raising money for his coalition?
To: areafiftyone
"Oh, I see. All this time that I was thinking it was Africa at fault, when it was actually my fault!"
To: Riley
Maybe they'll sue for reparations?
What's amazing is how the liberal media has totally downplayed Clinton's role in this...Imagine if GW had been at the helm?
To: beckett
True. However, they would have had to kill some of them to get their attention.
Can you imagine the outcry about international troops killing Rwandan civilians? Which most of the killers indeed were.
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posted on
04/04/2004 12:34:56 PM PDT
by
Restorer
To: sharktrager
So "foreign powers" told the Hutus to kill Tutsis with machetes? Come on!
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posted on
04/04/2004 12:47:26 PM PDT
by
Bismarck
To: Restorer
True. However, they would have had to kill some of them to get their attention. Can you imagine the outcry about international troops killing Rwandan civilians? Which most of the killers indeed were.
Perhaps, but even if international troops forestalled an international outcry by interceding only after solid evidence could be presented that 100,000 Tutsis had been massacred by "Rwandan civilians" that still would have saved 700,000 lives.
The killing went on for 100 days. If it could have been cut down to a 30 day or 20 day orgy of blood a lot of lives would have been saved.
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posted on
04/04/2004 1:11:42 PM PDT
by
beckett
To: Bismarck
Actually, the French did, in fact, encourage the Hutus to attack the Tutsis.
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posted on
04/04/2004 4:16:58 PM PDT
by
sharktrager
(Kerry is like that or so a crack sausage)
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