Nearly 1 million people die in Rwanda during the early 1990's.. the world does nothing...?

Question

Nearly 3000 people die during 9/11 and most of the major western powers go to war...

Can you please explain how 1 million lives in Africa are expendable and the major powers are prepared to sit back and do nothing [ as they are also presently doing in Sudan ]..... yet the whole world must be called to arms when the interests of the few are threatened???

Please do not say that Iraq is/was a threat to world stability.. it has been established that it never was one.

There is oil in Africa - for example oil reserves in Nigeria which cost the activist Ken Saro Wiwa his life when he challenged one of the major oil companies [which was supported by the USA]... they stood back and allowed him to be executed despite world wide condemantion...the oil was more important

"Timcurry" no one is asking the US to be the worlds policeman but they also should not expect other countries such as the UK to be their keepers when they decide to go to war!!

"James H" -Firstly I am studying International Law, Comparative Human Rights and International Criminal Law..

Secondly I am going to Uganda,Rwanda and the DRC on the 31st December 2006... THAT IS WHAT I AM DOING ABOUT IT!!

Answer 1

I entirely agree with you.

The mass publicity 911 recieved was joke when you think that amount die every week in Africa and many many countries but nobody seems to care.

I saw something else completly bizzare, when the U.S. started to broadcast in Iraq to help "bridge the gap between east an west" do you know what they broadcast the first night..., America goes to the proms!!!!

Complete over the top expenditure of wealth, the limo comes to the house etc. I could'nt believe what I was seeing.

Is the World really this ignorant to whats going on???

The whole of the Darfur region has been in crisis for decades, apparently its just not in our interests to help.

An we wonder why British Muslims are blowing themselves up in discust for the way this Country behaves, I am not justifying their actions by a long way, but I can certainly point a few figers.

Why there is'nt more protest in the U.K. I just don't know, maybe because we're fast realising its not Countries anymore its Corporations.



ADD.

I can't believe what I'm reading here. Do you not realise that both U.K. an U.S. foreign pollicy is making us the target.
If we continue only to help the rich an screw the poor its us that brings the terroris threat. WE HAVE THE MONEY AND THE POWER TO STOP THIS NOW.

WAKE UP PEOPLE.

Answer 2

The African lives were not expendable. There was a civil war going on in Rwanda and frankly, It is really hard to see what it has to do with western countries. It is the misguided idea that western countries want to do good in third world countries that we should deal with, because they don't. All the noise about Sudan is because of the discovery of large oil reserves in Darfur, so all of a sudden "Black" Africans are being killed blah blah, I'm not saying that there is no civil war there, but it appears that western countries are arming these "black" Africans to war against their government because it is easier to buy a small group than a whole country. So what you read in the press as a straight foreword case, is not.

The thing is for the African Union to get its house in order and impose some deal on these people and to prevent foreign arms from going to rebel groups. If anyone has thoughts that western countries are out do do good in the third world they should look at the shining example of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Darfur, it is estimated that about a million people have been displaced and killed, and in Iraq, about 655,000 people have been killed and about 2 million displaced. So would you invite such people to "sort" out Darfur? It would appear that things would only get worst. Also, you do not have sufficient understanding of the situation to go to Darfur to moralise.

Answer 3

this is not the duty of any usa to step in and end a genocide. each president in modern-day historic previous has been in workplace at the same time as a genocide became taking place out of the rustic and did little to assist. For Bush Sr. there became east Timor, for Clinton there became Rwanda and for Bush Jr there is Darfur. Clinton, nor the timber did not enable the genocide, although none of them intervened to renounce them. this is not the duty of any usa to intrude with a genocide, it may easily be a superb humanitarian act, although this is not a duty.

Answer 4

It is sad that there are parts of the world with such curropt governments and many deaths because of it, but the United States cannot be the policemen of the world. If we were to get involved in every single problematic issue in those countries that didn't involve us...it would just be impossible. We are already fighting right now in Iraq, and going to Africa would be unecessary.

Answer 5

You're quite right to draw attention to this.

The sad truth is that life is valued less in some countries than others.

I wonder how much oil there is in Rwanda?

I wonder if Iraq would have been invaded had Sadam not started selling oil priced in Euros?

Answer 6

becuase 9/11 was an inside job and a pretext to go to war and get wealthy men even wealthier also to slowly relinquish the people of there rights .hear is the info you are looking for http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm i joke you not ,and all i can say is if you dont watch this docu/film dont say the info wasnt put in front of you,sick world we live in people need to wake up because if everyone watched that film there would be a global peaceful revolution and there would be nothing these power hungry freaks could do about it.

Answer 7

Yes, there is oil in Africa. And diamonds. Last time I checked, Pat Robertson owned African diamond mines. Means the CR is probably not in Iraq after the oil.

You have obviously discarded the validity of a terrorist threat, which means there is nothing left to discuss.

Answer 8

How dare you say the US did nothing! Of course they did something! Why they aided and abetted the slaughter that killed 800,000 women men and children.

And before you go on about Terrorists Allan, Ill have you know that it is common fact that the Muslim minority of Rwanda helped to give shelter and sanctuary to victims rescuing hundreds from the gruesome genocide. And all the while, Truth Commissions have revealed how many Christian priests themselves became genocidaires and slaughtered innocents.

Check up on Mil-Tec, a UK arms company that supplied weapons (a lot from Tel Aviv, Israel) to the Hutu regime, that subsequently carried out the genocide.

Answer 9

because they have practically no government!..and there countries are run different...like UK, USA and other leading countries! well that's what i think but probably wrong...

Answer 10

hi

I agree with you about this. Iraq was not to do with global security - its to do with oil and manipulation. Many countries won't help another unless theres something in it for them to gain. Sad but true - we should be ashamed of ourselves.