The French funded the Hutu militia (and in an almost ironic turnabout the South Africans supported the Tutsi whose eventual victory stopped the genocide at one million deaths).
I felt a great deal of shame as I sat and watched, and saw the Europeans and a freakin' *dog* evacuated as the poor Rwandans were left to almost certain death.
One line caught me - "there isn't a single vote in it for the Europeans and Americans" and then you realise just how little we care for those who aren't from our nation...
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Date: 2005-02-08 08:38 pm (UTC)The French funded the Hutu militia (and in an almost ironic turnabout the South Africans supported the Tutsi whose eventual victory stopped the genocide at one million deaths).
I felt a great deal of shame as I sat and watched, and saw the Europeans and a freakin' *dog* evacuated as the poor Rwandans were left to almost certain death.
One line caught me - "there isn't a single vote in it for the Europeans and Americans" and then you realise just how little we care for those who aren't from our nation...
Disgusted.