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Originally Posted by Pacifier
You mean like the UN mission to Rwanda? when this was voted for but the member failed to send troops? when the french secured "Zone Turquoise" alone at the end?
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Inaccurate. The French military presence in Rwanda led to *more* killing and slaughter, not less. They provided military support to (and sympathized with) the ruling, French-speaking majority in this French colony, the Hutu Power regime, who were killing the Tutsi minority by the thousands. Operation Turquoise was a farce, and implicitly allowed the killing of the Tutsis to continue instead of stopping it. Once it became apparent that the operation was ineffectual, the French began evacuating anyone with white skin, turning away black Tutsi Rwandans. I saw video of this myself.
The only country that was really committed to help was Belgium, and they evacuated their remaining troops after 10 of them were killed in one day by the Hutus. I also have a lot of sympathy and respect for General Dallaire, a Canadian, who foresaw the coming genocide, begged the UN for additional troops, and was turned down.
You asked me a hypothetical question: What would I have done? I told you what I would have done, and my theoretical answer to Darfur would have worked in Rwanda too if the foreign troops hadn't turned and ran away.
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