Essay On Ghost Of Rwanda

In the documentary “Ghost of Rwanda” we got to see true event of what had occurred to approximately 1,000,000 people of Rwanda. The film interviewed several people that stayed or were in Rwanda during the genocide, like Phillip Gaillard who was head of the international committee for the Red Cross and how he helped save hundreds of lives in the process. Other interviews told the stories of people like General Romeo Dallaire who was task to preserve the peace between the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and the extreme Hutu nationalist which included the Interahamwe. I believe that this was a terrible event because an African tribe/clan was not being forced to leave but instead was almost getting eradicated. In the film they interviewed the leader of the RPF and how he wanted no help from the UN which kind of makes me question who actually started the war between both.
The sad part was that instead of the UN helping fix this conflict and save thousands of lives they decided to withdraw most of their troops and leave most of the civilians to defend themselves. This event infuriates me because even the UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said in an interview with the PBS program …show more content…
Gourevich told to the Clinton administration that it “wasn’t a failure to act. The decision was not to act. And at that, we succeeded greatly.” He was correct. The United States did nothing to try to stop the massacres happening in Rwanda. In fact the United States pushed the UN to take most of the peacekeeping forces in Rwanda. I believe that the Clinton administration was scared of another Somalia incident would happen if they entered Rwanda. I remember from the film that a US congressmen told a Rwanda refugee that was trying to convince the US to help Rwanda that the US had no interest in helping Rwanda out because it wouldn’t benefit us in anyway. So that’s why I believe that the United State did succeed in failing intervene in the Rwandan