International Rwandan genocide: 25 years later (today)

[gatchaman]

I think more effort is made to count the dead when the West doesn't get involved compared to when the West does get involved.

What was the death toll of this bombing, including deaths from untreated infectious disease?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factory

Or how about this bombing plus sanctions?



Or how about this bombing?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Vietnam's_dikes

Nixon: We've got to quit thinking in terms of a three-day strike [in the Hanoi-Haiphong area]. We've got to be thinking in terms of an all-out bombing attack - which will continue until they - Now by all-out bombing attack, I am thinking about things that go far beyond. I'm thinking of the dikes, I'm thinking of the railroad, I'm thinking, of course, the docks.
Kissinger: I agree with you.
President Nixon: We've got to use massive force.
Two hours later at noon, H. R. Haldeman and Ron Ziegler joined Kissinger and Nixon:
President: How many did we kill in Laos?
Ziegler: Maybe ten thousand - fifteen?
Kissinger: In the Laotian thing, we killed about ten, fifteen.
President: See, the attack in the North that we have in mind, power plants, whatever's left - POL [petroleum], the docks. And, I still think we ought to take the dikes out now. Will that drown people?
Kissinger: About two hundred thousand people.
President: No, no, no, I'd rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that, Henry?
Kissinger: That, I think, would just be too much.
President: The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?...I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christsakes.

Should Kissinger be tried for war crimes like how they still try Nazi concentration camp guards?

 

[Sano]

What happened in Rwanda was so horrific it's almost hard to fathom.

 

[genecop]

We should have intervened. We also should've stopped Indonesia from slaughtering people in East Timor.

But, no interests for capital.

We only intervene when there is green to be had...disgusting truth..

 

[BillytheFish]

What happened in Rwanda was so horrific it's almost hard to fathom.

Truth, for all the messed up wars in the past 30 years....the crisis in Rwanda was some medieval level shit.

 

[Cuauhtemoc]

Tale as old as time tbh
People peacefully coexisting in abundance and prosperity, then colonial tactics of bringing hospitals, schools and roads ruin yet another African paradise.
Sad.

Anyway, Paul Kagame is a Tutsi and he is probably the smartest leader in Africa and all around a great statesman, but I don't think Rwanda will go far after he dies.

 

[Phr3121]

". . . the dominant Hutus of Rwanda turned with well-planned violence on the Tutsi minority. . . 100 days later . . . the death toll stood at as many as one million" (Cowell, 2019).

What is so special about Rwanda?
. Rwanda genocide deaths: 800,000
. Armenian genocide deaths: 1,500,000
. Cambodian genocide deaths: 1,700,000
. Bangladesh genocide deaths: 3,000,000
. Holocaust genocide deaths: 6,000,000
. Ukrainian genocide deaths: 7,500,000
. Chinese Cultural Revolution (genocide) deaths: 50,000,000+

 

[KOQ24]

Paul Kagame is one of the few good leaders in Africa.

 

[jimmas99]

What is so special about Rwanda?
. Rwanda genocide deaths: 800,000
. Armenian genocide deaths: 1,500,000
. Cambodian genocide deaths: 1,700,000
. Bangladesh genocide deaths: 3,000,000
. Holocaust genocide deaths: 6,000,000
. Ukrainian genocide deaths: 7,500,000
. Chinese Cultural Revolution (genocide) deaths: 50,000,000+

It as special becouse it took them only 100 days to kill 800,000 people

 

[andnowweknow]

What is so special about Rwanda?
. Rwanda genocide deaths: 800,000
. Armenian genocide deaths: 1,500,000
. Cambodian genocide deaths: 1,700,000
. Bangladesh genocide deaths: 3,000,000
. Holocaust genocide deaths: 6,000,000
. Ukrainian genocide deaths: 7,500,000
. Chinese Cultural Revolution (genocide) deaths: 50,000,000+

Human life, one by one. No statistics measure costs on that scale. 800k is a lot of cost. Humanity is a story of tragedy and triumph...for a lot longer than it was written (all credit to Nas).

 

[VivaRevolution]

I find the Russian narrative on this very enlightening.

Basically RT has stories saying the side that got slaughtered had been the elite class of Rawanda for many decades, and that the genocide was actually the lower class rising up, and slaughtering the upper class.

 

[cabal]

Today we would know the heavy involvement of France and Usa in real time.

 

[steeldragon]

They had a population of 7 mil at the time of the genocide so more then 10% of population got wiped out in a short amount of time

 

[BillytheFish]

What is so special about Rwanda?
. Rwanda genocide deaths: 800,000
. Armenian genocide deaths: 1,500,000
. Cambodian genocide deaths: 1,700,000
. Bangladesh genocide deaths: 3,000,000
. Holocaust genocide deaths: 6,000,000
. Ukrainian genocide deaths: 7,500,000
. Chinese Cultural Revolution (genocide) deaths: 50,000,000+

It isn't a competition, but it is worth noting the Rwandan Genocide happened in less than 100 days...the other genocides occured over YEARS

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

It isn't a competition, but it is worth noting the Rwandan Genocide happened in less than 100 days...the other genocides occured over YEARS

so what youre saying is...when it comes to Genocide, Rwanda is Alpha as fu*k!!

 

[BillytheFish]

so what youre saying is...when it comes to Genocide, Rwanda is Alpha as fu*k!!

lol just noticed your 'free rr' subscript

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

lol just noticed your 'free rr' subscript

he should be...he's one of the best contributors to this site. he sure as hell did more for Sherdog than many of the admins.

 

[Gl0kta]

It as special becouse it took them only 100 days to kill 800,000 people

Of all the genocides referenced it was the only one the West could have prevented or atleast greatly reduced.

 

[Social Distance Warrior]

There are a couple great books I read on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Wi..._Tomorrow_We_Will_Be_Killed_with_Our_Families


This is one of them. "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families."

This was truly a dark chapter in humanity...not just the sheer barbarity of this ...that people who were once friends/neighbors turned on one another.

 

[Renard]

Meanwhile lefties in the US: dividing people by race and peddling hateful rhetoric about white people is a good idea. Bitch humans are tribal enough as it is, even within groups that look the same, don't fucking add gasoline onto it. It's not "woke", it's retarded.

 

[Colchonero]

Tale as old as time tbh
People peacefully coexisting in abundance and prosperity, then colonial tactics of bringing hospitals, schools and roads ruin yet another African paradise.
Sad.

Ah yes excusing hundreds of years of slavery, death, exploitation and subjugation because they built some buildings. God bless Mao for doing the same thing in China.