Rwanda Genocide

If you go back home, you shall be killed. If you escape to the bush, you shall be
killed. If you stay here, you shall be killed. Nevertheless, you must leave here because i
do not want any blood in front of my town hall. This was told by the mayor of the town
to an innocent teacher. There was no where for the tutsis to go. wherever they would
run to, wherever they would hide, they would be found and killed a painful death. The
United States could have stepped in and saved these innocent lives. The United
Nations and America both have standards that are documented in the Declaration of
Independence and The Geneva Convention. The United States has superior military to
wear they would have been able to take out the Hutus which is why the United States
should have gotten involved with Rwanda.
In the Declaration of Independence it states that A persons life can not be
violated. Every person has the right to their own beliefs, ideas and opinions and has the
right to free. The Geneva Convention also outlaws the taking of hostages, the mutilation
and degradation of POWs, torture, executions and discrimination of race, sex, religion,
nationality or political affiliations. In Rwanda, The Hutu extremists began the planning of
a mass genocide against the Tutsis. Killing each one so maliciously and having no
mercy. America and the United Nations both have standards and a duty to protect
innocent lives against such terrible things like mass Genocides. With having such
standards and dutys They need to fight for what is right no matter what may happen. It
was part of their job to help save the tutsis from death.
America has a very superior military that could have easily stopped this terrible
raid against the tutsis. The Hutus were brutally killing the Tutsis with Machetes and
sometimes with rifles. With the United States significant amounts of tanks and
exceptional amounts of artillery, the U.S could have surely gone in there and took the
Hutus and saved thousands of innocent lives.
Many people thought that going into Rwanda and becoming involved with them
could have started a lot of turmoil and maybe even a war. This could have happened if
there were many angered people in africa and different countries but something that is
more important than war is the people who have died. All those innocent people and
children getting murdered in such terrible was. If there was possibly a war, it would have
been worth the fight.
It is America's rightful duty to protect people, to help countries that are struggling
and having mass killings like the one in Rwanda. The United States and even the
United Nations have standards that they live by such as everyone has the right to live
and be free. Having a superior military that America has, could have rescued so many
people and could have put an end the the awful Genocide. which is why The United
States should have intervened with Rwanda.








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