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Gilda-If this sounds to political I am sorry, I do not mean it to sound that way. It is just something that I feel very passionate about, and sometimes my soul wont be silenced. However, if need be, pm me and I will edit it.
My never forget event is of the genocide, which occurred in the African country of Rwanda, in 1994. One of the two main tribes of the Rwandan people, the Hutu, tried to ethnically cleanse the whole population of the other tribe, the Tutsi. Over the span of 100 days, 800,000 Tutsis’ were systematically murdered, often by being hacked to death with a machete.
I was only thirteen when this happened, and I don't remember hearing anything about it. I had thought that this was due to my age, but I was disgusted to learn however, that the world purposely and collectively turned its head and ignored the brutal decimation of almost a million people. Although now, with my jadedness its not hard to understand why nothing was done to aid the Rwandan people.
And my own country, one built on the bases of human rights, did nothing as hundreds of thousands of people were stripped of their most basic right, the right to live.
Because Rwanda is a poor African country with nothing economic to offer, the United States had no reason to give aid. I find the idea that America should only offer aid to those countries that it has a vested economical interest in disturbing. But if you look at past and present foreign policy, especially in the case of Iraq, money does seem to be the governments’ motive.
I don’t agree with helping only those countries that we can extort something economical from, regardless if it is in the form of dollars, oil, or territory. I believe that because we are a nation that has so much, we should freely give to others in times of need. I don’t understand how the government can equate the value of a human life with a dollar sign. I wonder what mathematical equation the government uses, and what a persons net worth must be to deserve to live?
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