The Reason for the genocide in Rwanda
This is a movie that brings out the truth about the Rwandan genocide which consumed the lives of 800,000 people. This resulted from the history of the Rwanda’s two major tribes; the Tutsi and Hutu. Rwanda was colonized by Belgium, and it was supported by the Tutsi. In the colonial process, the Hutus were discriminated by the colonial power, which was Belgium with the help of the Tutsi. When Rwanda attained independent, the Belgians flew out of Rwanda. The Hutus took over power in Rwanda.
The Hutus extremists were filled with tribalism and hard courage guided by the fact that they were in power, they used this as an advantage to revenge the Tutsi. The Hutu extremists then started slowly killing the Tutsi people and the Hutus that were not racists. In the process, many innocent women, children and men were slaughtered by the Hutu extremists. The unique thing that happened was that none of the powerful nations like the US, Belgium, or even the international agency formed with the intention of keeping peace did not intervene. They stared from a far and watched the innocent women, children and men being slaughtered by the Hutu extremists just because they were Tutsi people.
The reason that Kofi Annan gives as to why the UN did not intervene and stop the killings
General Dallier and Barely were the first generals of the United Nations Peacekeeping that were informed of what was happening in Rwanda. General Dallier had less to do on his own without Kofi Anna’s approval. For this reason, he sent a telegram to the peacekeeping department of UN General Kofi Annan, who was on the seat at that time. In his telegram, he informed Annan that somebody told him that the Rwandan government was slaughtering its own people just because they were Tutsis. The intention of the government of Rwanda was using this as a trap to chase the western people from Rwanda. After Annan read the telegram, he first ordered General Dallier, “not to take any action” secondly, to share the information with the Rwandan government and know if it was true. General Dallier had nothing to do but obey the orders from above.
The reason as to why General Kofi Annan was that he was not convinced that it was true because it was information from intelligence people. He claimed that “intelligence can also be used to manipulate a person”. Therefore, Annan felt that the intelligence was used and the aim was to manipulate the UN agency. General Dallier being under the orders of General Kofi Annan did not go against the orders, but the truth was that innocent Tutsi people were continuously being slaughtered. This is why the international peacekeeping agency, the United Nations under General Annan by then did not intervene and stop the killings.
The reason why America did to intervene and stop the killings
The American government, as one of the powerful nations that played a very important role in peacekeeping apart from UN did not intervene. The funny thing that happened was that, when the United States of America’s government realized that that was the situation in Rwanda, instead of them intervening to stop the killings, they ordered its troops and citizens out of the country. This was indeed funny because this was not the case with what the United States of America. It had earlier before shown responsibility towards peacekeeping but it did not play any role in the Rwandan situation.
In three months that had passed, the soldiers of the United States of America send to keep peace and order in Mogadishu Somali were killed in a cold blooded act. The worst thing that happened was that the Belgian troops send to protect the Mother of the Prime Minister were killed by the Hutu extremists. The Unite States of America did not want to risk the lives of its soldiers in Rwanda like it did in Somalia. Therefore, the United States of America withdrew its troops from Rwanda and stared from a far while innocent women, children and men were being slaughtered just because they are Tutsi people.
The reason why Belgium did not intervene and stop the killings
Rwanda was a colony of Belgium and the country was still under its control in that even part of its troops was in Rwanda. Many people wondered why Belgium did not intervene and stop the killing of the innocent people. The reason that the Belgian government did not intervene and stop the killings was because the rumor that the Rwandan government used this as a bait to chase the Belgian citizens out of Rwanda. Therefore, the Belgian government did not intervene into the situation and stop the killings of the innocent women, children and men. They therefore, also stared and watched the innocent people being slaughtered by their own government.
Conclusion
In 1993, 800,000 citizens of Rwanda were slaughtered by the Hutu extremists just because they were of the Tutsi tribe or were not Hutus but not racists. The image of this inhuman act, still run down the minds of those who witnessed, who were victims and escaped through the meat of a tooth. People wondered why the powerful nations and UN peacekeeping agency did not intervene and stop the killing of the innocent men, women and children by the Hutu extremists. This was just because they were the Tutsi people.
Recommendation
Based on the above information, ignorance of powerful nations and the United Nations peacekeepers that made them fail to intervene into the Rwandan killings and stop them lead to dead of 800,000 people. This is a very worst choice of nations and a peacekeeping international agency giving petty excuses at the expense of the lives of innocent women, men and children. It is recommended that the powerful nations and peacekeeping agencies should be very concern to the extent of sending agents to the areas where the ramous claim that to be affected in any way. If in Rwandan case the United States and UN had taken that step, they would have known what the really truth was and they would have intervened and stopped the killings before many innocent were killed.
In addition to that, people in all global nations should know that all people are equal and they need not be differentiated based on their tribal or racial backgrounds. This is because, discrimination based on tribal difference was reason as to why the Rwandan genocide. In order to avoid such a situation from existing anywhere in the world, the nations under their governments should not differentiate its citizens but rather exercise fair and equal treatment of citizens. In this case, none of the tribes existing in any nation would feel oppressed by the government. By this, people of different types would also treat other as equals thus create peace and reduce tribal conflicts to the lowest rate ever.