Rwanda Genocide
For 18 years ago the world's media focused on a small, poor and relatively unknown country. It was during this period that the genocide in Rwanda began, and nearly 800 000 people were deprived of their life’s. The intense media coverage gave us the opportunity to behold one of modern time’s worst human disasters since the holocaust. The world witnessed when schoolchildren were killed by their teachers and women of their men, these were mainly Tutsis who were killed by Hutus by using all available tools. The genocide meant that about 9 percent of the population died in the bloodbath. A bloodbath that I believe could be Prevented. PREVENTION
When the genocide in Rwanda started, the surrounding world could take action but instead we chose to close our eyes even though they knew about the rough situation the Rwanda population lived in. A ground laying fault was that the surrounding world chose to not classify what happened in Rwanda as genocide, and they could in that way hide behind the convention. The genocide conventions criteria’s for genocide are too small and old, which is the reason why the UN chose not to take action in the Rwanda genocide. Genocide defines through the genocide convention as actions that are committed to destroy a group on national, ethnic, racial or religious grounds.
The United States could have played a big part in the genocide, and effect it in so many ways but they said “it did not represent one of the countries big interests” and spread their message along to other countries so they would also reject any help to Rwanda. The smallest thing as a realization of the problem could have saved the problem that occurred, because then the UN could have responded much quicker.
If the UN would get “permission” from the United States, the UN could have gone in Rwanda with peacekeeping troops. The United States is since the Versailles agreement the world father and middle hand between the UN and
When the genocide in Rwanda started, the surrounding world could take action but instead we chose to close our eyes even though they knew about the rough situation the Rwanda population lived in. A ground laying fault was that the surrounding world chose to not classify what happened in Rwanda as genocide, and they could in that way hide behind the convention. The genocide conventions criteria’s for genocide are too small and old, which is the reason why the UN chose not to take action in the Rwanda genocide. Genocide defines through the genocide convention as actions that are committed to destroy a group on national, ethnic, racial or religious grounds.
The United States could have played a big part in the genocide, and effect it in so many ways but they said “it did not represent one of the countries big interests” and spread their message along to other countries so they would also reject any help to Rwanda. The smallest thing as a realization of the problem could have saved the problem that occurred, because then the UN could have responded much quicker.
If the UN would get “permission” from the United States, the UN could have gone in Rwanda with peacekeeping troops. The United States is since the Versailles agreement the world father and middle hand between the UN and