Rwandan Genocide - Who was Responsible?

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Rwandan Genocide

Who was Responsible?

        The Rwanda Genocide cannot be described by words.  It was the worst occurrence the world has yet to see.  As many people have never even heard of this orchestrated mass killing, a very simple analogy is to compare it to the Holocaust.  In Rwanda, a small country, 800,000 people died in 100 days, to put in simply, eight-thousand people were killed daily, not by guns and bombs, but by knives and machetes.  A quick number comparison, 8,000 people dieing a day is equivalent to FIVE holocausts happening simultaneously.  How did the world let this happen?  Many countries just stood by idly, playing with words and phrases trying to avoid getting dragged in.  Several countries could have helped to save these people, but why would they?  Nothing was in it for them, therefore they had no business there.  The United Nations, the United States of America, and Belgium.  These three countries and/or organizations could have helped to save all of these lives.  This is just a handful of them who could have, and the ones I will go into detail about.

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        The United Nations, thought to be the keepers of the peace globally, had the best opportunity to help save these people.  They had the blue-helmeted troops stationed in Rwanda to help uphold the peace, but as soon as things got rough, they were out of these faster than a bat out of hell.  When the Hutu began their rampage thorough the country, they were nowhere to be seen.  One U.N. unit was protecting a school of Tutsis, whom numbered approximately 2,000, and were simply ordered to leave.  When they were gone, all, or nearly all of the Tutsis were ...

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