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[quote]Rwanda has begun a week of official mourning to mark the 20th anniversary of the country's genocide on Monday.
President Paul Kagame lit a torch which will burn for 100 days - the length of time the genocide lasted.
A diplomatic row has prompted Rwanda to bar France's ambassador, Michel Flesch, from attending the event, AFP news agency reports.
At least 800,000 people - mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus - died at the hands of Hutu extremists in 1994.
Many of the victims were hacked to death with machetes during 100 days of slaughter that began on 6 April 1994, shortly after Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana was killed when his plane was shot down over the Rwandan capital.[/quote]
As awful as genocides go Rwanda was particularly bad because of the suddenness of it and the brutality in the way it was carried out.
happy anniversary
Really disturbing how recent this was and the fact that nobody intervened.
[QUOTE=Antlerp;44476607]happy anniversary[/QUOTE]
It's pretty low to take the piss out of a genocide event...
I will advice everyone to read into this. It is really an eye opener and will change your view on international relations and France. France practicly supported the genocide by protecting the ones who planned and executed it, all because they spoke french. To this day some of the people behind the genocide still live in France. Everytime France intervenes in a conflict it is to secure their own influence (note that every french intervention in africa has been in french speaking countries. It is colonialism)
[QUOTE=AK'z;44476630]Really disturbing how recent this was and the fact that nobody intervened.[/QUOTE]
Nobody told me there was a machete massacre going on elsewhere in the world while I was sucking on my thumb at home, not even my mom!
(I prob. learned about it years later.)
For those of you who don't know what happened, watch "Hotel Rwanda", it explains everything about this.
It's a really good movie.
[QUOTE=AK'z;44476630]Really disturbing how recent this was and the fact that nobody intervened.[/QUOTE]
Peacekeepers don't count? I mean yeah, they didn't exactly do a tip-top job, and that's probably being generous, but they were there and they did try.
I only really found out about this a few years ago while in Geography. Our teacher put on Hotel Rwanda for us to watch.
[QUOTE=zeromancer;44476643]It's pretty low to take the piss out of a genocide event...[/QUOTE]
Holocaust jokes seem to be acceptable on facepunch.
[QUOTE=zeromancer;44476643]It's pretty low to take the piss out of a genocide event...[/QUOTE]
People make jokes about worse things. I don't see why this should get an exemption.
[QUOTE=cr2142;44477251]I only really found out about this a few years ago while in Geography. Our teacher put on Hotel Rwanda for us to watch.[/QUOTE]
that is a great movie
[QUOTE=Niklas;44477629]Holocaust jokes seem to be acceptable on facepunch.[/QUOTE]
Which is kinda sad, The Holocaust, 9/11 and other major events that have claimed thousands of lifes shouldn't be joked about.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;44477212]Peacekeepers don't count? I mean yeah, they didn't exactly do a tip-top job, and that's probably being generous, but they were there and they did try.[/QUOTE]
I think he was just saying that if any other country actually cared enough they could have helped out a thousand times more.
[QUOTE=joshuadim;44477164]For those of you who don't know what happened, watch "Hotel Rwanda", it explains everything about this.
It's a really good movie.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, it doesn't really explain everything. It's rather fictionalized; the main character actually had given the local army the names and room numbers of all hotel guests willingly (including those that were Tutsi, knowing full well what would happen to them) as well as extorting his guests for money. Not to downplay the fact that he saved a lot of people, but he certainly isn't the hero the movie and popular culture makes him out to be.
[editline]7th April 2014[/editline]
A better source of what really happened in Rwanda is the book "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda" by Romeo Dallaire, the head of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Rwanda at the time. Although it's not completely unbiased, he doesn't pull any punches in blaming himself and the UN alongside other factions.
[QUOTE=Viper123_SWE;44480458]Which is kinda sad, The Holocaust, 9/11 and other major events that have claimed thousands of lifes shouldn't be joked about.[/QUOTE]
We used to ban people for being little shits back in 06
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;44477212]Peacekeepers don't count? I mean yeah, they didn't exactly do a tip-top job, and that's probably being generous, but they were there and they did try.[/QUOTE]
The UN Peacekeepers were pretty much the only foreign power that even bothered. And even then, they were largely hampered by other foreign powers forbidding them from performing their duties effectively. It's a sad tale and one that, despite claims of "Never again" since the Holocaust, will likely be repeated in the near future.
[QUOTE=Pat4ever;44480583]It's a sad tale and one that, despite claims of "Never again" since the Holocaust, will likely be repeated in the near future.[/QUOTE]
well yeah I mean look at Serbia in the 90's.
[QUOTE=noneshallpass;44480620]well yeah I mean look at Serbia in the 90's.[/QUOTE]
Look at any genocide in the last half century. Hell, look at Sudan. That shit is still going on to this very day yet I haven't heard of it in any popular news site or headline for years now.
[QUOTE=Rausty;44476969]I will advice everyone to read into this. It is really an eye opener and will change your view on international relations and France. France practicly supported the genocide by protecting the ones who planned and executed it, all because they spoke french. To this day some of the people behind the genocide still live in France. Everytime France intervenes in a conflict it is to secure their own influence (note that every french intervention in africa has been in french speaking countries. It is colonialism)[/QUOTE]
And on other news, the world is round and countries protect their interests.
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