This sad video is about how the world broke its promise to stop genocide after the Holocaust when the world said, "Never again". I wish the global community had kept this promise so that this tragedy might not have occurred. This video also depicts the terrible hardship which occurred during the Rwanda genocide. Clearly these countries maintained no such promise and even pulled out their troops leaving only a small number of United Nations troops along with the ICRC who remained dedicated and refused to let the Rwandans die without attempting to help them in whatever way they could. (Image of ICRC worker shown at 3:51). The facts which accompany this video are possibly as upsetting as the images in the video are. It's difficult to believe that the world could say "Never again" and let this happen and do nothing at all to stop it. What's most upsetting is that, as is pointed out in the video, the United States' and other countries' governments feigned ignorance and denied that a genocide was even occurring and only well after the genocide had ended did the United Nations admit that acts of genocide had, in fact, occurred. Without the ICRC there to save thousands of lives it is almost certain that the death toll would have been much higher and the genocide may have even lasted longer.
I also had the same reaction when it came to the U.S saying that they would never let this happen again. It's sad that we couldn't keep that promise. Even though it might be a hard promise to keep we could have tried harder to help. For the most part it seems like we just sat aside and let it happen.
So true. It is terrifying and extremely disheartening that after so many countries promised that genocides would never happen again and if they did they would make sure to stop it. Yet so many genocides have happened since, with little or no help form other countries!
I also had the same reaction when it came to the U.S saying that they would never let this happen again. It's sad that we couldn't keep that promise. Even though it might be a hard promise to keep we could have tried harder to help. For the most part it seems like we just sat aside and let it happen.
ReplyDeleteSo true. It is terrifying and extremely disheartening that after so many countries promised that genocides would never happen again and if they did they would make sure to stop it. Yet so many genocides have happened since, with little or no help form other countries!
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