Friday, November 20, 2009

Uganda and the genocide


The MRND had a huge role in the genocide. Their radio stations did nothing but promote violence and convince the Hutus that they should be killing the Tutsis. Even thought they may have started the violence the U.S. and the U.N. did nothing to stop it. The United States and Juvenal Habyarimana has said that Uganda has been harboring terrorists, but I don’t think the United States should even consider pointing a finger at us when they clearly did nothing productive during this whole time of the genocide. The U.N is also to blame for not stepping in and helping out. Uganda was the base of the RPF, witch was the people who actually went in and helped the Tutsis. So, how does this have to do with us harboring terrorists when the U.S. and the U.N. witch are way bigger powers than us did nothing at all.
I understand their situation with Samalia but we all know that they have more than enough troops that could have helped. Belgium on the other hand was also a big part in the starting of the genocide. They first favored the Tutsis and than when they had realized they “made a mistake”, they switched the power to the Hutus and just left the country. This caused chaos in Rwanda but Belgium doing that was another huge mistake they had made. Than, after realizing what they had done they still did not go back to help. All these innocent people got killed because of the switching of power and this so called “brain washing”.
After this debate, I had a really good understanding about the Rwandan genocide. This debate was also very fun! Everyone got to participate and share their own thoughts. After hearing about what people had to say about the genocide I understood more and more about every group. I can see a lot of different points of view, but we could also argue with each other witch was very exciting to everyone. I would definitely always want to learn like this because it was fun and I learned a ton! This was a great debate! (:

2 comments:

  1. You failed to realize that Uganda did not fight in Somalia therefore they didn't know what stopping a genocide was like. The United States did nothing wrong and we are not responsible for fixing the worlds problems. You cannot say we did nothing to stop the genocide because Uganda obviously didn't help if they are being accused of harboring terrorists so you need to look at your own country before putting down another. A country cannot afford to be wounded by two straight genocides so we needed time to act which we just didn't have.

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  2. haha jason.. im not even going to keep arguing about this with you. it will go on way to long. ha nice comment tho!

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