This paper explores how the Conflict of values, international systems, national interest, realism, and humanitarianism played a role in the Rwandan genocide.
Although the Jewish genocide seems to be the worlds most remembered massacre of a people, the Rwandan genocide will go down in history as the fastest, If not the utmost vicious, massacre in the history of all humanity. For thousands of Tutsis, a catholic church is all that protects them, “No one gets killed in a church” this faith in humanity is stalking from someone waiting to be hacked to death. Their esteemed governor strides in, and after making a chivalrous speech about Tutsi treachery and ethnic cleanliness, he steps aside and opens the door and declares open season …show more content…
How could the world look away and allow people to be slaughtered.
What crimes have the Tutsi committed, that even dogs are treated better.
This young girl spends forty three days in a room with rotting corpses, no one came to her aid, for she is of no use to the Western white men “sitting in offices.” (Clinton, 1994) She is a Rwandan Tutsi, and an African who has no worth for them.
After the Jewish holocaust in Germany, the world said “never again” and adopted the UN convention and passed the charter to prevent genocide from ever happening again.
This need to prevent and punish those who orchestrate genocide seemed to be a concern to the international community, so much so that Genocide was defined as a crime under international law in the UN Genocide Convention of 1948 (The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide). This Convection states that, it is not only a crime to commit genocide, but it is also a crime to conspire, plan genocide. It is also a crime under international law to cause or incite others to commit …show more content…
It is further stated that the Security Council has the sole power to determine when and where a UN Peacekeeping operation can be deployed. This decision making power is held by the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The UN charter clearly states that the world powers part of the Security Council are responsible for maintaining peace and most importantly, for preventing Genocide. However, responsibility for failing to prevent the Rwandan genocide has been placed on the United States Clinton led administration. The US being the World’s financial and military power bares the most burdens for not actively intervening to stop or to prevent the genocide when its administration had knowledge of the planned extermination of the Tutsi’s by the Hutu led government.
By April 21, only two weeks after the start of the genocide, more than 100,000 Tutsis and Hutus dubbed as moderate were exterminated. Under pressure from the United States and Belgium, the UN Security Council voted to remove 90 percent of its forces in Rwanda, leaving only an empty force of no more than 200 unarmed troops from African
Although the Jewish genocide seems to be the worlds most remembered massacre of a people, the Rwandan genocide will go down in history as the fastest, If not the utmost vicious, massacre in the history of all humanity. For thousands of Tutsis, a catholic church is all that protects them, “No one gets killed in a church” this faith in humanity is stalking from someone waiting to be hacked to death. Their esteemed governor strides in, and after making a chivalrous speech about Tutsi treachery and ethnic cleanliness, he steps aside and opens the door and declares open season …show more content…
How could the world look away and allow people to be slaughtered.
What crimes have the Tutsi committed, that even dogs are treated better.
This young girl spends forty three days in a room with rotting corpses, no one came to her aid, for she is of no use to the Western white men “sitting in offices.” (Clinton, 1994) She is a Rwandan Tutsi, and an African who has no worth for them.
After the Jewish holocaust in Germany, the world said “never again” and adopted the UN convention and passed the charter to prevent genocide from ever happening again.
This need to prevent and punish those who orchestrate genocide seemed to be a concern to the international community, so much so that Genocide was defined as a crime under international law in the UN Genocide Convention of 1948 (The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide). This Convection states that, it is not only a crime to commit genocide, but it is also a crime to conspire, plan genocide. It is also a crime under international law to cause or incite others to commit …show more content…
It is further stated that the Security Council has the sole power to determine when and where a UN Peacekeeping operation can be deployed. This decision making power is held by the five permanent members of the Security Council.
The UN charter clearly states that the world powers part of the Security Council are responsible for maintaining peace and most importantly, for preventing Genocide. However, responsibility for failing to prevent the Rwandan genocide has been placed on the United States Clinton led administration. The US being the World’s financial and military power bares the most burdens for not actively intervening to stop or to prevent the genocide when its administration had knowledge of the planned extermination of the Tutsi’s by the Hutu led government.
By April 21, only two weeks after the start of the genocide, more than 100,000 Tutsis and Hutus dubbed as moderate were exterminated. Under pressure from the United States and Belgium, the UN Security Council voted to remove 90 percent of its forces in Rwanda, leaving only an empty force of no more than 200 unarmed troops from African