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Originally Posted by silent_jay
Yes, we mustn't forget the contribution that the international community made to help continue the genocide by providing arms shipments to the RGF, even though it was against the Arusha Accords. France, Belgium, UK, good job providing arms to the Genocidaires. The United States for sitting on the fence and being too scared of getting involved like they did in Somalia, even President Clinton recognizes the mistake he made. Finally the UN as a whole for not giving Gen. Dallaire the resources and support he needed to stop the genocide.
So yes it wasn't the act of this one man, even though he was the mastermind and was apparently planning the genocide since 1990, it wasn't even the act of just Rwandans inside Rwanda who picked up weapons to kill their neighbours, the international community as a whole had a part to play in this genocide, they failed Rwanda and the genocide was the result of that failure.
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Agreed. It was a massive failure on the part of the international community - particularly France, the UN and the US - before, during and after the genocide. The realization of how self-serving and elitist politics played into this makes me sick. And angry. And frankly, I will never forgive Bill Clinton for his appalling lack of leadership during the genocide. I don't know how he sleeps at night.