Rwanda
Why did we fail in Darfur and Rwanda?
Most, if not all, humans agree that genocide is wrong. If any given person off the street had the chance to stop one, they probably would. So why didn't we stop them in Rwanda and Darfur?
I dont mean to pose this as a question about Bush or Clinton, or military intervention, or some narrow discussion of tactics and what we should have said and done on what date, with what equipment, etc. I'm more curious about why we as human beings have a political system that seems to allow things that are extremely heinous, things we all agree shouldn't happen, to happen.
800,000 dead in Rwanda, 1994. 400,000 dead in Darfur, 2003-07.
Why?
Genocide 2011
In 2008, President X campaigned on a platform of A, B and C. Never talked much about genocide, except to express anger over Darfur to score points with the base. Never made any serious commitment to “never again,” cause what is that besides a phrase everyone says but no one means?
But now it’s 2011 and yesterday some lurid reports came out of _______. A couple days ago, there were massacres in the north, ___ on ____ violence. A couple villages massacred---the men and boys being immediately executed, women and girls taken out and raped, then executed. Unknown number of dead. Possible government involvement. It appears as a little paragraph in the global roundup sections of major newspapers.