So why should Americans die in some foreign country that is going through a civil war? The fact that the public thought what was going on in Rwanda was a civil war is because the Clinton administration refused to call it genocide even though the administration had documented reports stating it was. If the public knew that genocide was happening then there would have been a greater demand for it to be stopped. Calling it a civil war made it an internal matter for the Rwandans to handle themselves and not the United States place to get involved. James Woods, deputy assistant secretary at the Defense Department from 1986 to 1994, says: "In the spring of '93, when the Clinton administration came in, we were asked to develop lists of what we thought would be serious crises this administration might face I put Rwanda on the list, but I received guidance from higher authorities: If something happens in Rwanda we don't care. Take it off the list. .
United States national interest is not involved, and you know we can't put all these silly humanitarian interest on the list "unlike important problems like the Middle East and North Korea- (Hentoff 32). That statement reflects the fact that the Clinton administration did not care about Rwanda because there was interest in the area, unlike oil in the Middle East or the threat to America from nuclear weapons by North Korea. It is sad that Americans lost their lives in Somalia but does that justify sitting back and letting eight hundred thousand people die? If we stayed out of Rwanda solely because of the American deaths in Somalia that is saying that one American life has more value then four Europeans, ten Asians and thousands of Africans. .
A human life should be equally valued because it's a human life and not because of the race or ethnic make up of that life! That sort of cocky attitude is exactly what gave the Americans the reputation we have today.
The Rwandan people are mostly farmers. ... Rwanda does not just run on agriculture though. ... The average age of life for a Rwandan male is about 38.35 years, while a Rwandan female lives slightly longer at 39.65 years of age. ... Over the course of the war many things changed the way Rwanda was looked at, including the genocide in 1994. ... I feel that Rwanda has many problems within itself. ...
Since the 1994 genocide's the country of Rwanda has drastically changed. ... Rwanda faces two major problems. ... Rwanda's population is rising rapidly. ... Do to the fact that in most families there are women as the head of the house holds women are discriminated against and are unable to get things such as food, water, clothing, and other things to this nature. ... Because of them they made it their duty to patch things back together. ...
This quote means that it is when good people don't take action that bad things are allowed to happen. This relates to the recent genocide in Rwanda, when the Hutus massacred the Tutsis over a period of 100 days in the summer of 1994. ... The UN did a large deal of procrastinating during the ordeal in Rwanda. ... They simply ignored it when the Rwanda ambassador told them that it was just a "civil war." ... Then, when the ordeal was over, President Clinton decided it might be a good idea to go over to Rwanda and apologize. ...
In 1994 Rwanda a small eastern country in Africa was in the midst of modern day genocide between two tribes Tutsi and Hutu. ... As Roger Ebert said, "Paul is the kind of man who knows how things work in the real world, he uses his skills of bribery, flattery, apology and deception to save these lives who have come into. ... The issues addressed in Hotel Rwanda have dense impact in the workplace. ... The events that took place 1994 in Rwanda were terrible and very disturbing to see. It startles me to even think how things of that nature would occur in modern times. ...
The Genocide in Rwanda "Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist" Primo Levi's observation of the Jewish Holocaust. ... The Hutu had begun to believe that they were the true native people of Rwanda. ... A period of peace settled over Rwanda from 1973 until 1990. ... The Tutsi were located primarily in the center and in the southern part of Rwanda. ... In October of 1990, the RPF invaded Hutu held areas in and around Rwanda. ...
RWANDA Willy Nzeyimana is 17 years old. ... The health of Rwandans has suffered dramatically. ... Prior to 1994, Rwanda's human-development indicators were better than the regional average. ... To obtain water from a pump, families have to pay 100 Rwandan francs. ... Inflation in Rwanda is close to 10%, and food is expensive by regional standards. ...
Response War is seen as one of the most horrible things and crimes on this planet, but the crime of genocide, as Alfred Nobel states, it is the evil twin of it (Alvarez, 2001). ... The Rwandan genocide took place in 1994, when part of the Rwanda's ruling party, together with the military, organized one of the most instantaneous annihilation movements (Straus, 2006). ... Harff (2003) argues that countries such as Rwanda and Germany have a pre-existing condition of societal devotion to an authoritarian state. ... Such acts of horror can also be triggered by certain cultural events as the at...
The movie "Hotel Rwanda," is about the massacre in 1994 that is carried out in Rwanda after a group of rebels, Hutu, decides to attack the Tutsis. ... One connection I make from Things Fall Apart and Hotel Rwanda is that actually in both places (countries or villages), the societies fall apart. In Things Fall Apart, all the people in the villages fall apart by letting themselves influenced by the missionaries that came to conquer them not only in religion and beliefs but as land/country. ... And in the movie, Hotel Rwanda, society fall apart by the genocide. ... This quote means that our knowl...
During the early 1990's, the government of Rwanda carried out a program of ethnic division, raising hatred against the Tutsi minority in the country. ... There was an immense amount of killings in the Rwanda genocide which I find very hard to forget. ... I find it interesting to know that the things I can do every day, women get beaten, arrested, or killed for doing. ...
