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A 5 page essay in which the writer explores the reasons for the international community's lack of moral backbone during the Rwandan massacres in 1994. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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We recount the history of mistakes made, opportunities to save that were narrowly missed and we shake our heads. "If only we had known about the concentration camps--we would have
done something." The world now is so small now that the international community knows what is going on in every corner of the globe as it happens. So lack of
knowledge is no longer an excuse in not taking a moral stand. However, the US and the richer members of the world community still pick their battles carefully. The international
community will not come to the aid of just any country, whether it is morally imperative or not. A perfect example of the worlds lack of response is Rwanda.
In April of 1994 unspeakable horror was being broadcast from Rwanda to the entire planet. Rows and rows of bodies floating face down in rainbow colors,
looked more like a patchwork quilt than mothers, fathers and children -100,000 massacred in the first three weeks and day after day the world watched. Entreaties by the Secretary General
of the United Nations to each country fell on deaf ears. Calling it a genocide then UN Secretary, General Boutros Boutros- Ghali angrily lashed out at the hand
wringing. For weeks, he had pleaded with more than 30 heads of state but has managed to get firm pledges of men for a Rwandan peacekeeping force from only four
African countries" (Michaels, 1994). The killing continued and the world watched. The dead rotted in the sun and clogged rivers, and stories came back of two-year-olds sitting among dead relatives
for days. Children hacked on like meat and the world just watched and waited. "The main preoccupation of the Western powers in
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