we said never again
Over the course of 100 days, almost one million people were killed in Rwanda. The streets of the capital city of Kigali ran red with rivers of blood, but no one came to help. There was no international intervention in Rwanda, no expeditionary forces, no coalition of the willing. There was no international aid for Rwanda. Rwanda's Hutu extremists slaughtered their Tutsi neighbors and any moderate Hutus who stood in their way, and the world left them to it.
"Ten years on, politicians from around the world have made the pilgrimage to Rwanda to ask for forgiveness from the survivors, and once more the same politicians promise `never again,'" says director Terry George. "But it's happening yet again in Sudan, or the Congo, or some Godforsaken place where life is worth less than dirt. Places where men and women like Paul and Tatiana shame us all by their decency and bravery."
the next time we want to act like moral crusaders, let us not forget our past and current failures to protect the most innocent among us.
2 Comments:
So what should be done Martha? How would you handle the situation?
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Michael Ward, at 7:37 PM
several things should be done:
we, as citizens, should donate to organizations who are working to fix the situation; we should write our congressmen and president; we should pray.
when we write our congressmen, we should pressure them to (borrowed from www.savedarfur.org):
- Give the African Union Mission in Sudan authority under Chapter VII of the UN Charter to protect civilians.
- Press the Sudanese government to comply with Resolutions 1564 and 1556 by disarming and prosecuting the Janjaweed militia and all violators of human rights.
- Demand that the Sudanese government halt the forced relocation of civilians and provide the conditions for their safe and voluntary return.
- Impose an arms embargo on the Government of Sudan and implement economic and travel sanctions against key individuals.
- Contribute generously and swiftly to fulfill the UN’s humanitarian appeal and to provide logistical and financial support for the African Union force.
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martha, at 7:52 PM
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