Thursday, August 15, 2002
Facts? 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered in Rwanda in 1994.
Who tried to help them?
General Romeo Dallaire led a very very small UN peacekeeping force in to try and save as many people as possible.
What happened?
Dallaire soon found that he didn't have nearly enough people to deal with the situation, but the UN was too tied up in the Balkans to bother to lend him help, and the rest of the world stood mute as they looked the other way (the Tanya Harding story made bigger headlines in the US than the ongoing genocide).
Why should you care?
Because you are a good person.
Who is a good person?
General Romeo Dallaire.
Listening to: Adiemus - Adiemus (Live)
Who tried to help them?
General Romeo Dallaire led a very very small UN peacekeeping force in to try and save as many people as possible.
What happened?
Dallaire soon found that he didn't have nearly enough people to deal with the situation, but the UN was too tied up in the Balkans to bother to lend him help, and the rest of the world stood mute as they looked the other way (the Tanya Harding story made bigger headlines in the US than the ongoing genocide).
Why should you care?
Because you are a good person.
Who is a good person?
General Romeo Dallaire.
Listening to: Adiemus - Adiemus (Live)
