the UN has all the soldiers, money , hearts and monds they need to do anything they want, the root of this problem is the means of carrying out tasks that were established by ignorant and apathetic UN leaders. This was not General Dallaire's fault. Read his book.
Follow up When Juge Bruguiere charged Kagame wih murder he started charging France with genocide accomplicing . Americans have a HUGE responsability in Rwanda and Mr Clinton is not yet in jail
Kagame the Clinto's puppet had president Habyarimana's palne shot down. That triggered the genocide. he Americans prevented any UNO intervention for the sake of their puppet. it let time to conquer the whole Rwanda to ths criminal. This criminal went on slaughtering 6 000 000 people in Congo (Kinshasa). UNO reprot dating back Oct 2010 ...
@DeRoquencourt Where do you get your information from seriously, its embarrassing. Kagame didn't kill 6 million people. And didn't shoot down the presidents plane, Hutu rebels did, there govt had planned the genocide and that was there moment to act. don't be ignorant
I read the book years ago, and just now found a film was made about it. I LOVED it. GREAT, GREAT movie. I wish more people would know about it....and care.
@miyynxxx It's not like it used to be. Fired unless fired upon isn't the rule anymore. I just wish it had been that way in Rwanda, then allot of people wouldn't have died. Especially the PM.
Powers weak? You mean no interest at all, nothing to get like oil, just Africans, nothing to gain, and then after the genocide thee want point out who is really guilty when all the colonial powers were: Belgium, France, Britain, USA. How did it go with assassinating Lumumba, How can they let Mugabe kill his own people? Why did the British not intervene on behalf of the Biafrans? OIL! is the on that makes powers move. USA went into Iraq, Afghanistan, why can't hey in Zimbabwe?
Our world is the epitome of inequity, besides all the values the goverments "promote" its a complete joke, goverments are rotten to the core and i dont know what we should do about it.
Men like Romeo Dallaire represent a flicker of hope in a sea of corruption.
One scene that ticked me off was the scene with the Prime Minister..when she was gunned down in her home, the freaking UN troops gave up...if I was one of them i would have shot the freaking guy telling us to stand down, and go down with a fight......flame all you want but if and i mean IF i was in that position i would have done anything to protect the Prime Minister
Yes shaked hnd with the devil Kagame his friend... He helped him seize power by shooting down president habyarimana's plane. This triggered the genocide. Shame on you Mr Dallaire for having been an accomplice of a mass murder
@DeRoquencourt So he should have left and in doing so make sure nobody ever heard of the war/genocide or save 30 000 people? If it wasn't for him, we would not even be talking about this because their would be no record of the events since all the embassies emptied and the UN wanted to pull out. Also, I can't even begin to tell you how wrong you are about accusing him of shooting down Habyarimana's plane. But I won't delete your comment because it is a testament to disinformation.
@DeRoquencourt It's a shame that with misinformation like this, people will assume shooting down Habyarimana's plane caused the genocide against the Tutsi.......The Interahamwe, their weapons, training and propaganda was long in the making my dear, at least let us agree on that. You can not mobilize thousands of murderers within hours of the plane coming down unless they were ready and waiting to act. If you deny the existence of a plan to systematically exterminate the Tutsi, I rest my case.
the general of ghanan peackeepers did his upmost to disobey orders and help the people of rwanda. his men were accused of shooting rebels and when he was orderd to leave he refused he got in alot of trouble for this,. - that is a man oh honour and respect and his story should be known please like so he can be recognized
@Meowtis The UN is only as weak as the member nations allow it to be. It can be very effective when given the means: mandate + equipment + trained soldiers.
@madcow085 I concede with all three points, but must raise a fourth. A house at war with itself cannot stand, as old man Lincoln said. And the Princes of the Earth - forgive me for using the term - are more interested in making a mess of things (which they are now trying to clean up).
I'm just saying that none of this would happen if Britain was still in the juristicition of Africa. Look at Nigeria, Britain left it with a strong government and it's own parliment and an action plan for the future. They binned the lot and went to war with eachother, maybe all this was foreseen.
People having a go at America: It is the superpower of the world or the "Policing Country" it comes with the title and responsibilty to help others. Was once Britain's role. :D
@LolFishFail No, mostly UK left the countries with a terrible mess except HK and South Africa. Such as India, Africa, and the middle east. It still won't make a difference.
@Hperman09 No, Britain left the countries with stable economies and even a royal family of their own. But as soon as the countries had their independence, they went to war with each other. The finest example of this, is the India / Burma war of the 1950s.
@LolFishFail Actually, it was the UK that steal wealth from most of those countries and profits om their own. ARe you telling me that the British empire is not based on profit? It was the UK that divide India and Pakistan. Most of their wealth was stolen by the British and never give in return.
@Hperman09 The Empire divided the countries because of the tribes and mix of culture. I don't care what you think about the British Empire, The facts is, the world would have civilised order if it was still here.
@LolFishFail I'm not denying it because every superpowers contributed something good for humanity and so does the USA but to me I had some impression to you that British empire was not based on profit.
That cowardice bastard let 10 Belgian soldiers get slaughterd and he did nothing to stop it, and now they make a fucking film about him, it sickens me.
I see why you are angry; its because your Belgian yourself. Calling him a coward when YOUR government in the past created that division in Rwanda and not doing nothing to correct it, is hypocrital. He was doing everything he was ALLOWED to do. Who knew that when they were disarmed the guys were going to kill the Belgians. It didn't matter anyways, even if they didn't disarm, they were outnumbered. They would have still died.
@RashawnBlue1 He drove by them, saw a Belgian soldier dead on the ground and yet he did nothing. The paracommandos were asking to go in and resque them, they heard the schooting, the Soldiers that were still alive held out for 3hours, 3HOURS!!! and yet the paracommandos got a negative to go in time after time. So yeah i stand by my comments.
@pirre87 you do realize that ALL UN troops were under orders to not fire. it wasn't dallaire that couldn't protect them, it was the UN's pathetic mandate that killed them. if you want to blame someone, blame the UN security council
@MrCaboose1234 10 soldiers that were productive members of society, Vs 15-20 thousand of those Rwandans that will become robbers, rapist, and criminals where ever they go. FACT.
Those dead soldiers were worth far more than the lot of the hordes that are spawned constantly in Africa.
@MMABJJ1987 Oh yes, lets read Africa's history book or LACK there of. You liberals and "black history"(the theft of history in the name of political correctness)are extremely amusing, while you're preaching the lies and rhetoric do yourself a favor and google "Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Rwanda".
@fistofwarlords dipshit why the fuck don't you open your eyes and see that the world really is...The reason Africa is so fucked up is because of WHITE people, like us...If we didn't go and colonies and then corrupt them they would have not been like this...
What about the "Human Trafficking and slavery" that the americans forced upon on the blacks... So that is alright with you...ya it probably is because ur a redneck...U must be VERY sad that a black guy runs your country....
@waterloo995 Africa is so screwed up because of Africans themselves! You are nothing but a self-hating white loser. Look at India, India was under British colonial rule and I don't see India in such a crappy state like most of Africa is.
@LordMalice6d9 India was devastated by colonialism..before British came was there a border in India and was there war with Pakistan? No...
Look at Sri-Lanka, the exact same thing that happened in Rwanda is happening there, only difference is Sri-Lankan government blocked off evidence by banning reporters and not allowing "other" people into the conflict areas. This would have not happened if it was not colonized
@MMABJJ1987 Or how BLACK president of Liberia William Tubman's succession to the Supreme Court, infrastructure in Liberia was virtually non-existent. Tubman explained this situation by the fact that Liberia never received "benefits of colonization".
Amazing Whites are damned when they do and damned by blacks when they don't. Only troglodytes of your caliber don't see history for how it actually is and then attempt to paint it all as "racist evil" and those who don't agree ad "uneducated".
@fistofwarlords fuck off you racist scum. you cant understand the situation so you put it down to race. Are you saying that the western world is not corrupt? that the 'blacks' do this all by therselfs?
the Rwandan Genocide happend in the first place because of the 'WHITE' Belgium's
infact if you look at most of the troubles in africa they can be traced back to the white mans colonization.
(I know its not just that. the people fighting are also to blame)
@MMABJJ1987 "OHHHH, racist scum". LMAO you're insult are so cliché it's down right pathetic. Rwanda's genocide was simply black and black violence but the whole of the politically correct world seeks to place that on the White man's feet. Did the White man kill them or the black man? It's a simple question with a simple answer. Even William Tubman seen the benefits of colonization as I pointed out prior. S.Africa is today what it is because of Colonization.
@MMABJJ1987 Fact of the matter is Africa is dependent off the White western world. White technology, White medicine, and even FOOD AID has dragged Africa along. Without those things Africa would see a mass die off. Once again though show me any successful African nation prior to colonization of any African nation. Egypt and S.Africa don't count as Egypt benefited from Europe too much and S.Africa was created by the White man.
@fistofwarlords you really belive yourself dont you? unreal.
The Belgium's divided Rwandas years ago, then ran away in the Genocide like a bunch of pussys.....yes your right the blacks killed the blacks but the whites gave them guns and a reason.
how good did colonization do the congo?
Im not say colonization is a bad thing. but you can not deny that most (if not all) of the trouble in africa can be traced back to colonization!
you think its Black and white..but you are so wrong.
@fistofwarlords also africa never had the time for its countries to become successful. its been treated like shit for years and stamped! and do you think its more successful now? has colonization helped the continent??? because to me it looks like it didnt...it just harmed it.
you need to read Blood River by Tim Butcher. understand the colonization effect on africa.
@fistofwarlords hahaha your funny...... but The White Western World is now dependent on us Japanese and Chinese for everything including money the west is going bankrupt whites loosing jobs to 3rd world countries and in debt owing china money everyday. As Mr. T would say quit yo jibber jabber lol
@fistofwarlords and one more thing The West has been dependent of Africa you dumb fuck they greedily stole the resources which you desperetly needed to pull your people out of poverty and ship the rest of the poor whites to America. and now turns of events is coming to bite you in your ass look at your white jobs go to growing intelligent people from Africa Asia and South America. Soon you will not have money to afford to spit bigotry from your computer and end up using public libraries LOLLOL
@pirre87 I wonder which country created the whole hatred in Rwanda??? I wonder which country didn't even do anything about it when everything started to go down hill....There are certain rules that UN peace-keeper has to follow, one of them is ONLY SHOOT WHEN SHOT AT...
You call Dallaire a coward...LOL....Cowards are the once that runaway when things get shit, not the ones who stay and fight.
@pirre87 moron if he went in then him and the soldiers that was with him and the 10 Belgium soldiers would have died...
It was Belgiums fault that Rwanda was fighting and you are here defending 10 soldiers death when the man saved thousands and thousands of life...
10 of your men died and what did you do??? you ran away like pussies....Dallaire and two hundred something men stayed there without help, without enough food, and weapon....
The world doesn't revolve around you or your country..
@waterloo995 It wasnt Belgium's fault you fucking tard. We had nothing to do with that shithole country. We went in to stop those retards from killing each other. My father was there with the belgian contingent, they had the chanche to go in ans rescue them, but were told each time to stand down and had that bastard saw 2 of them dead on the ground for fucks sake. those brave men hold out for 3 fucking hours before they died. So yeah he is a fucking coward.
@pirre87 Actually, after WW1, Rwanda was taken from Germany and handed to Belgium which nurtured a racist state. And you're telling me you would take on 80 000+ soldiers with less than 2500 UN troops and observers with no food, no ammo, no fuel, no air support and no mandate? The only supplies coming in we're by Canadian C-130's who we're taking AA fire that Dallaire had to fight with NY and Ottawa to keep coming. Please, explain how they had the chance.
@pirre87 If Belgium had nothing to do with it, then why did your prime minister in 2000, Guy Verhofstadt, make a public apology for Belgium's failings with regards to Rwanda?
@SeisanStnc Because Guy Verhofstad is a fucking pussy and idiot, everybody in Belgium was stunned when he made that apology and you can be assured none of us agreed with it. We didnt fail, the politcians and international community failed.
@pirre87 it was your dipshit of a country that divided the people in Rwanda by looking at how tall they were and how rich they were..your country single handedly created a majority and minority of race...What you didn't learn this in school???
it was your countries fault what happened in Rwanda and you are protecting 10 soldiers when it was your fault...get the fuck out of here and slap your dad across the face for being a pussy.
i heard about this story from Linda Melvern when she gave a lecture at our school and for the last 5 years have been thinking jesus thats an incredible story im going to make it when im older. iv just watched this trailer. FML!
I think Gen. Dallaire carries guilt that the rest of the world should carry not himself, the 1 person who couldn't walk away, He and the UN peacekeepers that stayed with him the whole time are people to be honored and respected for years to come. He should feel pride in that he saved so many, yes many died but he did the best he could with the very few resources he had. Its not his fault the world didn't give a shit. If there ever was a saint in the 20th century it would be Gen.Dallaire.
I didn't know there was a movie based on his book. I've seen the documentaries with him returning to Rwanda. Heartbreaking. He and the Canadian forces stood as heroes when the rest of the world ran off and obsessed over OJ Simpson while hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered. And you'd think we'd have learned our lesson. Nope. We sit back while Israel commits genocide in Gaza, for one. Hafta' get my paws on this movie now, thanks!! :)
There was a private army in Africa, opertaing from Angola who sat on the border for weeks to get UN clearance to enter. Nobody had to pay them as they felt it their obligation to enter. The UN told them that they would not be active in any mission ever if they were to enter Rwanda. This is yet another gross miconduct by the world tothe world. Thank God this life has a beginning and end.
I am ugandan(neighbour to rwanda) and i dont understand why people are saying it is other countries' fault for the genocide. No african country helped them either, and we do have troops. We are helping in Sudan though. I was a kid in 1994 hearing about killings across the river in Rwanda. Eerie time. Those Hutus were extreme beyond.
this one is a great movie i definitely encourage everyone i know to watch this. awesome! good thing I can watch it for free in high definition quality at newWATCHmovies{dot}com.
the UN gave orders to not act, and while troops did protect some people, they protected a very small minority. 800,000 people were slaughtered under their watch, and right before the eyes of the world. The inaction and death toll was a UN and a world failure.
Any single developed nation's government who had a true conscience could have stopped the genocide by themselves...it was truly a failure of the entire human race not to act.
THe UN did not let Rwanda down. The UN is a product of the international community, all UN troops are contributed by member nations, So to stop the violence, which saw armed militias and forces numbering tens of thousands would have required member states to contribute a similar sized force. 2,500 likely armed troops under the command of Dallaire saved some 30,000 innocent people. You want someone to blame, blame the nations who refused more troops to the UN.
@jamonto 100% agreed, But the UN was created so something like the Holocaust can never happen again...Although they had all the evidence that they needed they just ignored it...
This movie is BIGGEST LIE ever told about Rwanda...!
UN left behind a lot of innocent people and they didn't protect them because they got diffrent orders. Also, they left behind everyone who has not been in they convoy, left to be murdered.
This movie is just a UN way to say "sorry for genocide"...!
If you want to know fact about Rwanda, then watch "Hotel Rwanda" and "Somethimes in April".
UN is a shameless organisation and they don't get involved if they don't have any interest...!
Clearly you haven't even seen this film!! You haven't read the book either!!
Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire paints a scathing picture of the bureaucratic underfunded joke that is the UN.
Those people weren't protected because there was no one there to protect them!!! A force of about 300 was supposed to stop the extermination of hundreds of thousands?? IMPOSSIBLE!!
Stupid motherfucker, get your facts straight before you talk shit about a Canadian hero.
UN is an organisation made just for making big money, political careers, business etc. it has nothing to do with protection of people. If there's UN, the probabilty of massacre is rising. Of course there are a lot of very good people and soldiers, but not on top, behind the desks.
As for Canadian Dallaire, we have here in Poland our own heros, such as major Stefan Stec, whose death was caused by complication after PTSD. He was acused of being idle during the war.
People dont make sense these days!! Lots of people complain about how United States is nosing into foriegn country's affairs, then when something bad happens somewhere, they blame us for NOT helping in the country's affairs?
I hate when people do that to be honest. It shows that no matter what the United States do, we will always get critism.
If we dont help people say its because it was not valuable and when we do people say its because of oil...
I think you are generalising a bit. I personally am grateful that my friends are fighting alongside americans and brits in the Kandahar province. I think people have a big beef with Iraq thats all. And the US is not the only country that didn't intervene enough to prevent the Rwandan Genocide. My own country, Canada, also has its share of responsibility. So before telling people to "Shut the F up", get anger management courses. K thx.
No, I am not generalising. I am specifically talking about people who complain about USA getting in other country's affairs (not just Iraq and Afganistan)
Then when something like Rwandan Genocide happens, and we DONT help, they get pissed and start their critism and its annoying.
Thats why I cant wait until United States goes energy independent, then we wont have to worry about these problems as much.
I can't claim to represent the people you are talking about, but I think you're arguing with a false dichotomy. People were angry about America's response to Rwanda because it directly hampered UNAMIR, which was deployed before the war.
People are angry at America's response to Afghanistan and Iraq because it seems the motives for both wars seems less than altruistic. If America were concerned with preventing Kurdish genocide, they would have not supplied him weapons during the Iran-Iraq War.
You don't know anything about the rest of the world. We (Serbian people) didn't want to US involved in our country but Americans represents themselves like "world cop"...
Our politics is something thet you can never hear on your media, because US goverment dictate lies to to the rest of the world. Thrust me, I still live in Serbia...
You should recognize what I said before saying "You don't know anything about the rest of the world"
I was clearly talking about people who says "stop nosing" and then when situations like this happens, they start saying US sucks for not helping (quite hypocritical)
All in all, ALL country's government lies. "dictate" is probably wrong word usage. So trying to single it out is silly. Your country lies just about as much as any other country. It does what it have to keep its interest.
I actually believe that Canada did all it could. At the time Canada was out of free troops so all they could provide was the Generals staff, and was one of only 3 countries that actually stayed with UNAMIR through everything and not pussying out like everyone else.
@madcow085 Yeah that's the reason most of the world doesn't like America, because you jump to conclusions and make wild accusations. Most of which aren't based on fact.
@thegr33nbastard Exactly. After Somalia, nobody (not just the US) didn't want to get involved in Africa. However in their defense, when Haiti shook to its knees, they we're some of the first in with boots on the ground: lots of em'! I think Obama has a decent head and a good team: ie Samantha Powers, etc.
@thegr33nbastard I couldn't agree with you more, this was the fault of France, Britian, Russia, China and every other country who ignored Dalliare's warning, not just the United States. However, people tend to overlook the successes of US policy and only focus on the failures
@madcow085 you are right he should get anger management. i am canadian too and proud of it. Romeo even said US was the strongest country at the time and they pulled out of rawanda to keep the costs down. now is that somthing to be proud of. some canadians even thought that it was all Romeo fault. but he didnt back out he stayed to the end. no wonder countries blamed US having great power comes with even greater responsibility.
@RashawnBlue1 dude listen, reports came outta there with absolutely no media coverage, no one cared, not just the americans, the canadians too, except one really, but american media was HUGE to blame, no lie
it is within the circumstance of instances of United States intervention as the problem. The United States intervenes when it is in the best interest of the nation, which is a given within international politics.
@RashawnBlue1 ok You know Romeo Delaire right when he came to canada some canadains chose to think the whole thing was his fault. was it his fault? did he kill the 800000 people or did he just choose to let them die. it is true US and other counties like bangladesh, France and belgium did want to pull ot of rawanda and even romeo said to the US at the time they were (and still are) the most powerful country in the world and helping a country like Rawanda would be nothing for them but they didnt
If the US intervenes it is ALWAYS for there own win, or because they got 'attacked'. Afghanistan and Iraq (oil) and they got 'attacked' (9/11), Vietnam, because the US didnt want communisme to spraid. WOII because they got attacked (pearl harbor), and so on. They obviously didnt cared about the jews, if zo, why didnt they go to war earlier? Thats why people hate the US because they never intervened to really help people...
@djeffa87 Well technically, the attack for "oil" is somewhat incorrect though I won't doubt that could be a reason. We don't get oil free from Iraq so don't mistake it!
The Jew thing you mentioned is silly.... Not many knew about the concentration and death camps around Europe until Germany was on defensive so saying "they didnt care for Jews" dont make true sense.
Why sacrifice your own people to help others when there is no benefit whatsoever? Considering it isnt even America's fault
@RashawnBlue1 While the genocide was going on, the US was lobbying for the total withdrawal of UN troops from Rwanda. Government employees were instructed not to use the word "genocide" to refer to what was going on. Tell me again how good and just your country is.
rofl, I never said it was good or just. Pay attention to what I wrote. No country is "good and just". All countries have a stain on its reputation, even if they believed they were in the right-of-way. Read about Somalia if you haven't heard of it, it is one of the reasons US thought of it as a lost cause. Even though US did lobby against it, NO COUNTRY sent any efficient aid to be proud of. No one can complain at all in all honesty.
You must also realize that the US do infact finance the UN. It gives the highest amount to the UN; 22% to be exact. Therefore, USA reserves the right to have an opinion in how and where it wants UN forces to be used as any other member state.
It was not only USA that didn't recognize it as a genocide. Many of the most powerful members in the UN council didn't want to refer it as genocide because it will force them to act.
I am basically saying, lots of people are hipocrit
I agree with you up to the Shut the fuck up! As an American, its an extremely frustrating mindset from the world community.
We did more good to the Pakistanis (many of whom would've fired at our helicopters on any other day) during their recent disastrous floods than our own people in Katrina, and then we "weren't doing enough".
There are so many examples like this! I wish we stopped the Rwandan genocide like most of us do, but it was Rwandans committing the crimes.
Thanks for the support. I realized my last words was too harsh right when I hit the post button. It was too late to correct without deleting and re-writing it. I probably should have apologized for it, was frustrated. I am not angry, just annoyed at the constant generalizations I hear on youtube.
Especially when its coming from allied nations such as UK, whom I consider to be outstanding allies.
Any French give you grief about USA and Rwanda I'll tell them to shut the fuck up for you... it was partly their cash, weapons, and training that supplied the genocidal Hutu army in this conflict! It was also leftover colonialistic influence that helped make that place such a mess anyway.
I say, if anyone, European nations should've played a bigger role!
@RashawnBlue1 well you plant noses in people business when you shouldn't and when it came to a situation where not only the US but all the major power had the power to prevent it they refused, for example there is this vid of an american representative being asked about genocide, and she went about to ensure that she did not say that genocide was taking place, because if they did by law the UN forces could actually shoot an intervene
Can you correctly label times when we "plant noses" in people's business when we shouldn't? That is more of an opinionated statement by the way.
Every conflict that we been in had good reason and intention since WW1. Its more of people trying to suggest that US thinks its a world police. This is an untrue statement as more Americans are isolationist.
I think we deserve the right considering how much we give to the world anyways. Even when our country is faltering, we still give aid
@RashawnBlue1 a fair point but look, in cambodia during the vietnam war america actually encouraged revolution in cambodia the result the khmer rouge took over and we knowwhat happened there, in Congo cia encouraged coup and tried to assasinate patrice lumumba result lumumba mercilessly murdered, mobutu who US and belgium supported replaced him, he turned out to be a frickin murderer who exploited congo,america where actually friends with iraq until they invaded oil rich kuwait, change is needed
I see your points. US has a bad history of chosing sides for minor nations. Don't forget the Vietnam guy US supported until we seen that he was a major catholic and persecuted Budhists.
In the past, the CIA and US has always had black history of supporting people who turns out in the end to be people who shouldn't be in power. That is an accidental event though, due to the ones we supported hiding their true intentions.
Remember the fear of communism at that time caused problems
@RashawnBlue1 i understand what ur saying to an extent, but Lumumba was different, Lumumba was killed because he was preaching Pan-africanism, he basically wanted a Congo run by africans, US and belgium didn't want this especially belgium who wanted control of the diamond mines so they conspired to end him,
@RashawnBlue1 xDDD man you know that america successfully created an empire? and the usa are somehow ruling the world indirectly through the world bank (and it's sister organisations) and the international monetary fund and so on.. and belgium... well, let's just say they are doing well not speaking against uncle sam's opinion ;)
@RashawnBlue1 reason is because people don't like that the states is getting a lot black and latinos when dat what the world be soon even canada is the same
Man, I have no clue what you are responding to me about or how it is relevant to the topic and hand. Can you please give information on what post of mines you are replying to?
@RashawnBlue1 It is pretty cobvious when and why the states intervenes in countries. In this case the lack there of is clearly demonstrated buy the economic stability of Rwanda at the time of the massacre and the strategic uselessness as well as unprofitable resources
Don't forget we are the #1 most popular country. Everyone looks at US and gets ready to bash when they feel US done something wrong. Are you forgetting that relativeley few U.N members intervened in Rwanda? The only ones that was willing to send troops were those that were small countries.
You can't talk about one country when EVERY country does (or would do if they were capable) it themselves and that is the annoying part. You can thank bad Iintelligence info on that.
@RashawnBlue1 No see, people get pissed when the U.S. invades countries for resource or stratigic gain (Iraq = oil, Serbia = oil shipping access from the middle east to the U.S) and claims the moral high road (Iraq - WMD's, Serbia - genocide) when we all know they are full of shit. Then when an ACTUAL GENOCIDE occurs they PRETEND they don't know (ie: there are no resources, and, who cares about the "nig's") Most Americans just watch CNN and are just to stupid to see it
Don't forget we are the #1 most popular country. Everyone looks at US and gets ready to bash when they feel US done something wrong. Are you forgetting that relativeley few U.N members did not intervene in Rwanda? The only ones that was willing to send troops were those that were small countries.
You can't talk about one country when EVERY country does (or would do if they were capable) it themselves and that is the annoying part. You can thank bad Iintelligence info on that.
@freakdp1 I basicly agree on Iraq, but if you've talk to people who served in former yugoslavia you'll know that that wasnt about strategic gain but really about genocide. Sure, the US wasnt the US if it wouldnt try and make a strategic gain out of it, but i think thats a small price to pay to bring back stability.
And iam no big US fan, but if they intervene they do it for their own gain and if they don't intervene its because there wouldnt be a strategic gain. The lose popularity either way.
I got to shake hands with Romeo Dallaire. What a guy!
spinlover1 1 month ago
the UN has all the soldiers, money , hearts and monds they need to do anything they want, the root of this problem is the means of carrying out tasks that were established by ignorant and apathetic UN leaders. This was not General Dallaire's fault. Read his book.
ToxSikk 2 months ago
Follow up When Juge Bruguiere charged Kagame wih murder he started charging France with genocide accomplicing . Americans have a HUGE responsability in Rwanda and Mr Clinton is not yet in jail
DeRoquencourt 3 months ago
Kagame the Clinto's puppet had president Habyarimana's palne shot down. That triggered the genocide. he Americans prevented any UNO intervention for the sake of their puppet. it let time to conquer the whole Rwanda to ths criminal. This criminal went on slaughtering 6 000 000 people in Congo (Kinshasa). UNO reprot dating back Oct 2010 ...
DeRoquencourt 3 months ago
@DeRoquencourt Where do you get your information from seriously, its embarrassing. Kagame didn't kill 6 million people. And didn't shoot down the presidents plane, Hutu rebels did, there govt had planned the genocide and that was there moment to act. don't be ignorant
DDMWS1234 3 months ago
I was so mad when I heard the order, you are not allowed to shoot unless shot upon... SERIOUSLY?!
TastyGenitals 4 months ago
@TastyGenitals this happened after Somalia, the U.N was soo scared of a repeat it blinded them to what was going on.
Baseshocks 2 months ago
Such a powerful film!
101cutiee 4 months ago
I read the book years ago, and just now found a film was made about it. I LOVED it. GREAT, GREAT movie. I wish more people would know about it....and care.
TribeFan7Lofton 6 months ago
I don't see how peace keepers work.... they just observe the peace? what help does that do if they done keep the peace?
miyynxxx 7 months ago
@miyynxxx It's not like it used to be. Fired unless fired upon isn't the rule anymore. I just wish it had been that way in Rwanda, then allot of people wouldn't have died. Especially the PM.
McMahonHater 6 months ago
Powers weak? You mean no interest at all, nothing to get like oil, just Africans, nothing to gain, and then after the genocide thee want point out who is really guilty when all the colonial powers were: Belgium, France, Britain, USA. How did it go with assassinating Lumumba, How can they let Mugabe kill his own people? Why did the British not intervene on behalf of the Biafrans? OIL! is the on that makes powers move. USA went into Iraq, Afghanistan, why can't hey in Zimbabwe?
300359alann 7 months ago
Sad but good movie to see a reminder to stand up to criminals with bigger guns to save the innocenct people with no guns.
PalestineCitizen2009 8 months ago
just a man trying to do what any one would have done having been in his position. Protect the innocent at all cost.
rumpastumpa 8 months ago
Our world is the epitome of inequity, besides all the values the goverments "promote" its a complete joke, goverments are rotten to the core and i dont know what we should do about it.
Men like Romeo Dallaire represent a flicker of hope in a sea of corruption.
jmthekiller 8 months ago
Great movie, infuriating
MichaelCasanovaMusic 8 months ago
vive les Canadiens!!!/long live the Canadians!!!
when there is a need for fair and just judgement, we will be there
when the world is in requirement of peacekeepers, we will be there
when the the hole that is the world, we will be there,
which ever shithole the world can provide provide to the human race... we will be there
we are the canadians/canadiens, maybe we are divided, as a country, or as a people, we will stand for the freedoms of others.
johanoh 9 months ago
One scene that ticked me off was the scene with the Prime Minister..when she was gunned down in her home, the freaking UN troops gave up...if I was one of them i would have shot the freaking guy telling us to stand down, and go down with a fight......flame all you want but if and i mean IF i was in that position i would have done anything to protect the Prime Minister
Tarful2345 9 months ago
Screwed fucking the whole tired nations for stopping the genocide in Rwanda.
USAAIRPOWER 9 months ago
This world we live in is pretty fucked up
skippzz 10 months ago
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Yes shaked hnd with the devil Kagame his friend... He helped him seize power by shooting down president habyarimana's plane. This triggered the genocide. Shame on you Mr Dallaire for having been an accomplice of a mass murder
DeRoquencourt 10 months ago
@DeRoquencourt So he should have left and in doing so make sure nobody ever heard of the war/genocide or save 30 000 people? If it wasn't for him, we would not even be talking about this because their would be no record of the events since all the embassies emptied and the UN wanted to pull out. Also, I can't even begin to tell you how wrong you are about accusing him of shooting down Habyarimana's plane. But I won't delete your comment because it is a testament to disinformation.
madcow085 10 months ago 34
@madcow085 I totally respect Dollaire, but his lack of experience in combat wasn't very helpful with his decisions, but mad respect for theman.
ian2008931 2 months ago
@ian2008931 Peacekeeping is very different from open combat.
drjonasson19 1 month ago
@DeRoquencourt It's a shame that with misinformation like this, people will assume shooting down Habyarimana's plane caused the genocide against the Tutsi.......The Interahamwe, their weapons, training and propaganda was long in the making my dear, at least let us agree on that. You can not mobilize thousands of murderers within hours of the plane coming down unless they were ready and waiting to act. If you deny the existence of a plan to systematically exterminate the Tutsi, I rest my case.
bakamesungura 9 months ago
@DeRoquencourt troll
EzraMurdock115 4 months ago
@DeRoquencourt Dude what you saying man? You retarded or something? he didn't shoot down the plane.
ian2008931 2 months ago
hotel Rwanda is a joke...this is the movie you should be watching..
waterloo995 11 months ago
the general of ghanan peackeepers did his upmost to disobey orders and help the people of rwanda. his men were accused of shooting rebels and when he was orderd to leave he refused he got in alot of trouble for this,. - that is a man oh honour and respect and his story should be known please like so he can be recognized
thank you
willg19953 11 months ago
A show that reminds us of how weak the UN really is and how weak the superpowers really are.
Meowtis 1 year ago
@Meowtis The UN is only as weak as the member nations allow it to be. It can be very effective when given the means: mandate + equipment + trained soldiers.
madcow085 1 year ago 28
@madcow085 I concede with all three points, but must raise a fourth. A house at war with itself cannot stand, as old man Lincoln said. And the Princes of the Earth - forgive me for using the term - are more interested in making a mess of things (which they are now trying to clean up).
Meowtis 1 year ago
@madcow085 The number 2 guy at the UN was as crooked as a wrestling match.
McMahonHater 6 months ago
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@madcow085
dont forget that we need people who have compassion.
Kyoko019 5 months ago
@Meowtis NATO could have stopped that if Peacemaking and not pathetic peacekeeping was used.
CrazyMunky84 7 months ago
I'm just saying that none of this would happen if Britain was still in the juristicition of Africa. Look at Nigeria, Britain left it with a strong government and it's own parliment and an action plan for the future. They binned the lot and went to war with eachother, maybe all this was foreseen.
People having a go at America: It is the superpower of the world or the "Policing Country" it comes with the title and responsibilty to help others. Was once Britain's role. :D
LolFishFail 1 year ago
@LolFishFail No, mostly UK left the countries with a terrible mess except HK and South Africa. Such as India, Africa, and the middle east. It still won't make a difference.
Hperman09 2 months ago
@Hperman09 No, Britain left the countries with stable economies and even a royal family of their own. But as soon as the countries had their independence, they went to war with each other. The finest example of this, is the India / Burma war of the 1950s.
LolFishFail 2 months ago
@LolFishFail Actually, it was the UK that steal wealth from most of those countries and profits om their own. ARe you telling me that the British empire is not based on profit? It was the UK that divide India and Pakistan. Most of their wealth was stolen by the British and never give in return.
Hperman09 2 months ago
@Hperman09 The Empire divided the countries because of the tribes and mix of culture. I don't care what you think about the British Empire, The facts is, the world would have civilised order if it was still here.
LolFishFail 2 months ago
@LolFishFail I'm not denying it because every superpowers contributed something good for humanity and so does the USA but to me I had some impression to you that British empire was not based on profit.
Hperman09 2 months ago
The documentory is better than this film, but both are worth a watch.
Of course you should really read the book, but i only did that after the film.
The part about the red fruit made me cry for hours.
rorrt 1 year ago
my civics class is watching this film right now, great movie :)
bornahybrid 1 year ago
That cowardice bastard let 10 Belgian soldiers get slaughterd and he did nothing to stop it, and now they make a fucking film about him, it sickens me.
pirre87 1 year ago
@pirre87
I see why you are angry; its because your Belgian yourself. Calling him a coward when YOUR government in the past created that division in Rwanda and not doing nothing to correct it, is hypocrital. He was doing everything he was ALLOWED to do. Who knew that when they were disarmed the guys were going to kill the Belgians. It didn't matter anyways, even if they didn't disarm, they were outnumbered. They would have still died.
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 He drove by them, saw a Belgian soldier dead on the ground and yet he did nothing. The paracommandos were asking to go in and resque them, they heard the schooting, the Soldiers that were still alive held out for 3hours, 3HOURS!!! and yet the paracommandos got a negative to go in time after time. So yeah i stand by my comments.
pirre87 1 year ago
@pirre87 you do realize that ALL UN troops were under orders to not fire. it wasn't dallaire that couldn't protect them, it was the UN's pathetic mandate that killed them. if you want to blame someone, blame the UN security council
pepelondon 1 year ago
@pirre87 10 belgian soldiers dead,
36,000 rwandans saved
do the math, the world doesn't revold around you/your country
MrCaboose1234 1 year ago 12
@MrCaboose1234 10 soldiers that were productive members of society, Vs 15-20 thousand of those Rwandans that will become robbers, rapist, and criminals where ever they go. FACT.
Those dead soldiers were worth far more than the lot of the hordes that are spawned constantly in Africa.
fistofwarlords 1 year ago
@fistofwarlords what a silly stupid little point. do yourself and everyone a favour...read a history book.
MMABJJ1987 1 year ago
@MMABJJ1987 Oh yes, lets read Africa's history book or LACK there of. You liberals and "black history"(the theft of history in the name of political correctness)are extremely amusing, while you're preaching the lies and rhetoric do yourself a favor and google "Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Rwanda".
fistofwarlords 1 year ago
@fistofwarlords dipshit why the fuck don't you open your eyes and see that the world really is...The reason Africa is so fucked up is because of WHITE people, like us...If we didn't go and colonies and then corrupt them they would have not been like this...
What about the "Human Trafficking and slavery" that the americans forced upon on the blacks... So that is alright with you...ya it probably is because ur a redneck...U must be VERY sad that a black guy runs your country....
waterloo995 11 months ago
@waterloo995 calm down waterloo
661Sunshine 10 months ago
@waterloo995 Africa is so screwed up because of Africans themselves! You are nothing but a self-hating white loser. Look at India, India was under British colonial rule and I don't see India in such a crappy state like most of Africa is.
LordMalice6d9 8 months ago
@LordMalice6d9 India was devastated by colonialism..before British came was there a border in India and was there war with Pakistan? No...
Look at Sri-Lanka, the exact same thing that happened in Rwanda is happening there, only difference is Sri-Lankan government blocked off evidence by banning reporters and not allowing "other" people into the conflict areas. This would have not happened if it was not colonized
waterloo995 8 months ago
@MMABJJ1987 Or how BLACK president of Liberia William Tubman's succession to the Supreme Court, infrastructure in Liberia was virtually non-existent. Tubman explained this situation by the fact that Liberia never received "benefits of colonization".
Amazing Whites are damned when they do and damned by blacks when they don't. Only troglodytes of your caliber don't see history for how it actually is and then attempt to paint it all as "racist evil" and those who don't agree ad "uneducated".
fistofwarlords 1 year ago
@fistofwarlords fuck off you racist scum. you cant understand the situation so you put it down to race. Are you saying that the western world is not corrupt? that the 'blacks' do this all by therselfs?
the Rwandan Genocide happend in the first place because of the 'WHITE' Belgium's
infact if you look at most of the troubles in africa they can be traced back to the white mans colonization.
(I know its not just that. the people fighting are also to blame)
Your ignorance on this is so clear.
MMABJJ1987 1 year ago
@MMABJJ1987 "OHHHH, racist scum". LMAO you're insult are so cliché it's down right pathetic. Rwanda's genocide was simply black and black violence but the whole of the politically correct world seeks to place that on the White man's feet. Did the White man kill them or the black man? It's a simple question with a simple answer. Even William Tubman seen the benefits of colonization as I pointed out prior. S.Africa is today what it is because of Colonization.
fistofwarlords 1 year ago
@MMABJJ1987 Fact of the matter is Africa is dependent off the White western world. White technology, White medicine, and even FOOD AID has dragged Africa along. Without those things Africa would see a mass die off. Once again though show me any successful African nation prior to colonization of any African nation. Egypt and S.Africa don't count as Egypt benefited from Europe too much and S.Africa was created by the White man.
fistofwarlords 1 year ago
@fistofwarlords you really belive yourself dont you? unreal.
The Belgium's divided Rwandas years ago, then ran away in the Genocide like a bunch of pussys.....yes your right the blacks killed the blacks but the whites gave them guns and a reason.
how good did colonization do the congo?
Im not say colonization is a bad thing. but you can not deny that most (if not all) of the trouble in africa can be traced back to colonization!
you think its Black and white..but you are so wrong.
MMABJJ1987 1 year ago
@fistofwarlords also africa never had the time for its countries to become successful. its been treated like shit for years and stamped! and do you think its more successful now? has colonization helped the continent??? because to me it looks like it didnt...it just harmed it.
you need to read Blood River by Tim Butcher. understand the colonization effect on africa.
MMABJJ1987 1 year ago
@fistofwarlords hahaha your funny...... but The White Western World is now dependent on us Japanese and Chinese for everything including money the west is going bankrupt whites loosing jobs to 3rd world countries and in debt owing china money everyday. As Mr. T would say quit yo jibber jabber lol
JMGEntertainmentify 11 months ago
@fistofwarlords and one more thing The West has been dependent of Africa you dumb fuck they greedily stole the resources which you desperetly needed to pull your people out of poverty and ship the rest of the poor whites to America. and now turns of events is coming to bite you in your ass look at your white jobs go to growing intelligent people from Africa Asia and South America. Soon you will not have money to afford to spit bigotry from your computer and end up using public libraries LOLLOL
JMGEntertainmentify 11 months ago
@fistofwarlords dumbass redneck run along and rub ur dads cock or something...
waterloo995 11 months ago
@MrCaboose1234
fuck off dude, i have the right to protect those 10 brave soldiers and recognize the sacrifice they have made.
pirre87 8 months ago
@pirre87 I wonder which country created the whole hatred in Rwanda??? I wonder which country didn't even do anything about it when everything started to go down hill....There are certain rules that UN peace-keeper has to follow, one of them is ONLY SHOOT WHEN SHOT AT...
You call Dallaire a coward...LOL....Cowards are the once that runaway when things get shit, not the ones who stay and fight.
waterloo995 11 months ago
@waterloo995
jep exactly like he did. He ran away and left them to die.
pirre87 11 months ago
@pirre87 moron if he went in then him and the soldiers that was with him and the 10 Belgium soldiers would have died...
It was Belgiums fault that Rwanda was fighting and you are here defending 10 soldiers death when the man saved thousands and thousands of life...
10 of your men died and what did you do??? you ran away like pussies....Dallaire and two hundred something men stayed there without help, without enough food, and weapon....
The world doesn't revolve around you or your country..
waterloo995 11 months ago
@waterloo995 It wasnt Belgium's fault you fucking tard. We had nothing to do with that shithole country. We went in to stop those retards from killing each other. My father was there with the belgian contingent, they had the chanche to go in ans rescue them, but were told each time to stand down and had that bastard saw 2 of them dead on the ground for fucks sake. those brave men hold out for 3 fucking hours before they died. So yeah he is a fucking coward.
So shut the fuck up tard!
pirre87 10 months ago
@pirre87 Actually, after WW1, Rwanda was taken from Germany and handed to Belgium which nurtured a racist state. And you're telling me you would take on 80 000+ soldiers with less than 2500 UN troops and observers with no food, no ammo, no fuel, no air support and no mandate? The only supplies coming in we're by Canadian C-130's who we're taking AA fire that Dallaire had to fight with NY and Ottawa to keep coming. Please, explain how they had the chance.
madcow085 10 months ago
@pirre87 If Belgium had nothing to do with it, then why did your prime minister in 2000, Guy Verhofstadt, make a public apology for Belgium's failings with regards to Rwanda?
SeisanStnc 8 months ago
@SeisanStnc Because Guy Verhofstad is a fucking pussy and idiot, everybody in Belgium was stunned when he made that apology and you can be assured none of us agreed with it. We didnt fail, the politcians and international community failed.
pirre87 8 months ago
@pirre87 People like you are the reason that Belgium gets a bad name...Guy Verhofstad is smart and he knows what is right from wrong.
waterloo995 8 months ago
@pirre87 it was your dipshit of a country that divided the people in Rwanda by looking at how tall they were and how rich they were..your country single handedly created a majority and minority of race...What you didn't learn this in school???
it was your countries fault what happened in Rwanda and you are protecting 10 soldiers when it was your fault...get the fuck out of here and slap your dad across the face for being a pussy.
waterloo995 8 months ago
@waterloo995 are you insulting canada?
fepav 6 months ago
@fepav how am I Insulting Canada?
waterloo995 6 months ago
@fepav i'm only asking, so are you or not?
fepav 6 months ago
@pirre87 fuck off
TheSickOne5 3 months ago
Yes, I am.
laageen 1 year ago
i heard about this story from Linda Melvern when she gave a lecture at our school and for the last 5 years have been thinking jesus thats an incredible story im going to make it when im older. iv just watched this trailer. FML!
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zenia5t 1 year ago
Hey, Roy Dupuis is a huge star in Québec.
He's really impressive in this trailer.
Kudos to him.
It seems like a great movie.
Mottahead 1 year ago
reading the book at the airport expoltion. some pretty heavy stuff
bcp987 1 year ago
can someone please tell me the composer's name of this song ? 1:46
murkyMC 1 year ago
can someone please tell me the composer of this song ? 1:46
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polodoss 1 year ago
iv met the man, he truly is a hero.
REVAN2338 1 year ago
@REVAN2338 i know man.. where at?
baah007 1 year ago
@baah007 he was speaking in my town,
REVAN2338 1 year ago
@REVAN2338 yea same here... im in calgary..he went to my school last year! hes awesome.
baah007 1 year ago
I think Gen. Dallaire carries guilt that the rest of the world should carry not himself, the 1 person who couldn't walk away, He and the UN peacekeepers that stayed with him the whole time are people to be honored and respected for years to come. He should feel pride in that he saved so many, yes many died but he did the best he could with the very few resources he had. Its not his fault the world didn't give a shit. If there ever was a saint in the 20th century it would be Gen.Dallaire.
KaliShiva26 1 year ago
I didn't know there was a movie based on his book. I've seen the documentaries with him returning to Rwanda. Heartbreaking. He and the Canadian forces stood as heroes when the rest of the world ran off and obsessed over OJ Simpson while hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered. And you'd think we'd have learned our lesson. Nope. We sit back while Israel commits genocide in Gaza, for one. Hafta' get my paws on this movie now, thanks!! :)
theresaruf 1 year ago
One of the best books I have read...Dalliare is a living ledgend
carrotdude2008 1 year ago 2
There was a private army in Africa, opertaing from Angola who sat on the border for weeks to get UN clearance to enter. Nobody had to pay them as they felt it their obligation to enter. The UN told them that they would not be active in any mission ever if they were to enter Rwanda. This is yet another gross miconduct by the world tothe world. Thank God this life has a beginning and end.
laageen 1 year ago
@laageen are you talking about the executive outcomes?
hunter402406 1 year ago
This movie wasn't all that great. But the book was fucking INCREDIBLE.
READ THE BOOK!!! It really tells the story well, and puts it all into perspective with what Dallaire was dealing with in the UN.
ET4u 1 year ago
I'm currently reading this book, so far it's an excellent book
86BenCahoon 1 year ago
he changed more then obama ever could.
concretedoor100 1 year ago
I am ugandan(neighbour to rwanda) and i dont understand why people are saying it is other countries' fault for the genocide. No african country helped them either, and we do have troops. We are helping in Sudan though. I was a kid in 1994 hearing about killings across the river in Rwanda. Eerie time. Those Hutus were extreme beyond.
AvidTuber87 1 year ago
I met Romeo Dallaire today in my mom's apartment building's elevator. Most random thing to happen to me in a LONG time if not ever.
TheVlogSister 1 year ago
Whats the song at 1:43??
shouavaj12 1 year ago
fucking UN they can't do shit look at darfur now, they quote: no intervention is needed because there is nothing but humans in rwanda
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this one is a great movie i definitely encourage everyone i know to watch this. awesome! good thing I can watch it for free in high definition quality at newWATCHmovies{dot}com.
talyaeden 1 year ago
Romeo Dellaire makes me proud to be a Canadian.
09Tabitha007 1 year ago 32
@09Tabitha007
Quite the guy! You Canadians are pretty alright.
Mantisisland 1 year ago
Fuck. 800,000 people could have been saved if someone with power cared.
Pepsicoke33 1 year ago
does anyone know the name of the song and artist of the song they played at the end...while the credits were playing??? movie was great by the way!
burb21 1 year ago
This film should be part of basic education in any country.
ICertI 1 year ago 19
@ICertI this film should also be the basic education for the UN too. i think they need it most
pepelondon 1 year ago
@ICertI I TOTALLY AGREE THANK YOU, i watched this movie, and it has litterally inspired me to help out in some way
bobjo56 1 year ago
@ICertI it is in Canada...it is a Canadian film after all...
waterloo995 11 months ago
everything is about money
Bioreek 1 year ago
the UN gave orders to not act, and while troops did protect some people, they protected a very small minority. 800,000 people were slaughtered under their watch, and right before the eyes of the world. The inaction and death toll was a UN and a world failure.
lilian2010 2 years ago
Any single developed nation's government who had a true conscience could have stopped the genocide by themselves...it was truly a failure of the entire human race not to act.
runnerxc17 1 year ago
Or blame Colonel Bagosora and the leaders of the interhamwe who orchestrated the killing with such evil precision, unrivaled in human history
jamonto 2 years ago
THe UN did not let Rwanda down. The UN is a product of the international community, all UN troops are contributed by member nations, So to stop the violence, which saw armed militias and forces numbering tens of thousands would have required member states to contribute a similar sized force. 2,500 likely armed troops under the command of Dallaire saved some 30,000 innocent people. You want someone to blame, blame the nations who refused more troops to the UN.
jamonto 2 years ago
@jamonto 100% agreed, But the UN was created so something like the Holocaust can never happen again...Although they had all the evidence that they needed they just ignored it...
waterloo995 11 months ago
This movie is BIGGEST LIE ever told about Rwanda...!
UN left behind a lot of innocent people and they didn't protect them because they got diffrent orders. Also, they left behind everyone who has not been in they convoy, left to be murdered.
This movie is just a UN way to say "sorry for genocide"...!
If you want to know fact about Rwanda, then watch "Hotel Rwanda" and "Somethimes in April".
UN is a shameless organisation and they don't get involved if they don't have any interest...!
skeMaMen 2 years ago
Clearly you haven't even seen this film!! You haven't read the book either!!
Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire paints a scathing picture of the bureaucratic underfunded joke that is the UN.
Those people weren't protected because there was no one there to protect them!!! A force of about 300 was supposed to stop the extermination of hundreds of thousands?? IMPOSSIBLE!!
Stupid motherfucker, get your facts straight before you talk shit about a Canadian hero.
NapalmSabbathChains 1 year ago 2
@NapalmSabbathChains
You fuckin' dumbass I saw the movie... fuckin' bitch!
skeMaMen 1 year ago
LTG Dallaire is an amazing and inspirational man. If only more people here in America knew about him and what he did...but sadly they don't.
runnerxc17 1 year ago
UN is an organisation made just for making big money, political careers, business etc. it has nothing to do with protection of people. If there's UN, the probabilty of massacre is rising. Of course there are a lot of very good people and soldiers, but not on top, behind the desks.
As for Canadian Dallaire, we have here in Poland our own heros, such as major Stefan Stec, whose death was caused by complication after PTSD. He was acused of being idle during the war.
Peluqe 2 years ago
People dont make sense these days!! Lots of people complain about how United States is nosing into foriegn country's affairs, then when something bad happens somewhere, they blame us for NOT helping in the country's affairs?
I hate when people do that to be honest. It shows that no matter what the United States do, we will always get critism.
If we dont help people say its because it was not valuable and when we do people say its because of oil...
I got something to say
Shut the fuck up!
RashawnBlue1 2 years ago
I think you are generalising a bit. I personally am grateful that my friends are fighting alongside americans and brits in the Kandahar province. I think people have a big beef with Iraq thats all. And the US is not the only country that didn't intervene enough to prevent the Rwandan Genocide. My own country, Canada, also has its share of responsibility. So before telling people to "Shut the F up", get anger management courses. K thx.
madcow085 2 years ago 2
No, I am not generalising. I am specifically talking about people who complain about USA getting in other country's affairs (not just Iraq and Afganistan)
Then when something like Rwandan Genocide happens, and we DONT help, they get pissed and start their critism and its annoying.
Thats why I cant wait until United States goes energy independent, then we wont have to worry about these problems as much.
RashawnBlue1 2 years ago
I can't claim to represent the people you are talking about, but I think you're arguing with a false dichotomy. People were angry about America's response to Rwanda because it directly hampered UNAMIR, which was deployed before the war.
People are angry at America's response to Afghanistan and Iraq because it seems the motives for both wars seems less than altruistic. If America were concerned with preventing Kurdish genocide, they would have not supplied him weapons during the Iran-Iraq War.
AtriumComplex 2 years ago
@RashawnBlue1
You don't know anything about the rest of the world. We (Serbian people) didn't want to US involved in our country but Americans represents themselves like "world cop"...
Our politics is something thet you can never hear on your media, because US goverment dictate lies to to the rest of the world. Thrust me, I still live in Serbia...
skeMaMen 2 years ago
You should recognize what I said before saying "You don't know anything about the rest of the world"
I was clearly talking about people who says "stop nosing" and then when situations like this happens, they start saying US sucks for not helping (quite hypocritical)
All in all, ALL country's government lies. "dictate" is probably wrong word usage. So trying to single it out is silly. Your country lies just about as much as any other country. It does what it have to keep its interest.
RashawnBlue1 2 years ago
I think people make good points about America not intervening when there is obvious acts against humanity occurring.
We did stop a genocide in the Balkans in the 1990s shortly after Rwanda, we failed to in Rwanda, and have continually failed to in Darfur...
Where American can, we should act, why those places, because we can.
I think that if the US had intervened in Rwanda and if they did in Darfur, it would guilt the world to acting.
runnerxc17 1 year ago
runnerxc17@ it is not the fact that I am debating whether or not US was right or not for not intervening.
I was specifically getting at people who say "US is so nosey and need to stay out of other country's business"
then when some genocide occurs this is what they say "Why US didn't help more. They could have done something to stop it"
It pisses me off. I am like; "make up your damn mind!"
I agree though, US should have helped, No UN country really helped though.
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@skeMaMen
Dude, Serbs were killing Bosnians for being Muslim. Of course you didn't want anyone to get involved you wanted to wipe the Bosnians out.
You might have been the victim during WW2 but what you guys did during the 90's is unacceptable.
dnbwhynot 1 year ago
@dnbwhynot
That's the one point of view... nothing else. Don't talk about things that u don't know...
skeMaMen 1 year ago
@madcow085
I actually believe that Canada did all it could. At the time Canada was out of free troops so all they could provide was the Generals staff, and was one of only 3 countries that actually stayed with UNAMIR through everything and not pussying out like everyone else.
APPLEPIE978 1 year ago
@madcow085 Yeah that's the reason most of the world doesn't like America, because you jump to conclusions and make wild accusations. Most of which aren't based on fact.
thegr33nbastard 1 year ago
@thegr33nbastard Exactly. After Somalia, nobody (not just the US) didn't want to get involved in Africa. However in their defense, when Haiti shook to its knees, they we're some of the first in with boots on the ground: lots of em'! I think Obama has a decent head and a good team: ie Samantha Powers, etc.
madcow085 1 year ago
@madcow085 u do know haiti is not in africa
Rangerleadtheway44 1 year ago
@Rangerleadtheway44 Not all 1/3 world country's are in Africa.
madcow085 1 year ago
@Rangerleadtheway44 isnt Haiti the nation where us backed coup against democratic government hapened
ceaser630 1 year ago
@thegr33nbastard I couldn't agree with you more, this was the fault of France, Britian, Russia, China and every other country who ignored Dalliare's warning, not just the United States. However, people tend to overlook the successes of US policy and only focus on the failures
gabrielknobcheese 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 he's right same here in the U.K., we did not do enough fast enough.
avalonhaze 1 year ago
@madcow085 well said comrade
TheForeignCanadian 1 year ago
@madcow085 you are right he should get anger management. i am canadian too and proud of it. Romeo even said US was the strongest country at the time and they pulled out of rawanda to keep the costs down. now is that somthing to be proud of. some canadians even thought that it was all Romeo fault. but he didnt back out he stayed to the end. no wonder countries blamed US having great power comes with even greater responsibility.
gohito456 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 dude listen, reports came outta there with absolutely no media coverage, no one cared, not just the americans, the canadians too, except one really, but american media was HUGE to blame, no lie
builtstrong2lastlong 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1
it is within the circumstance of instances of United States intervention as the problem. The United States intervenes when it is in the best interest of the nation, which is a given within international politics.
johanoh 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 ok You know Romeo Delaire right when he came to canada some canadains chose to think the whole thing was his fault. was it his fault? did he kill the 800000 people or did he just choose to let them die. it is true US and other counties like bangladesh, France and belgium did want to pull ot of rawanda and even romeo said to the US at the time they were (and still are) the most powerful country in the world and helping a country like Rawanda would be nothing for them but they didnt
gohito456 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1
If the US intervenes it is ALWAYS for there own win, or because they got 'attacked'. Afghanistan and Iraq (oil) and they got 'attacked' (9/11), Vietnam, because the US didnt want communisme to spraid. WOII because they got attacked (pearl harbor), and so on. They obviously didnt cared about the jews, if zo, why didnt they go to war earlier? Thats why people hate the US because they never intervened to really help people...
djeffa87 1 year ago
@djeffa87 Well technically, the attack for "oil" is somewhat incorrect though I won't doubt that could be a reason. We don't get oil free from Iraq so don't mistake it!
The Jew thing you mentioned is silly.... Not many knew about the concentration and death camps around Europe until Germany was on defensive so saying "they didnt care for Jews" dont make true sense.
Why sacrifice your own people to help others when there is no benefit whatsoever? Considering it isnt even America's fault
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 While the genocide was going on, the US was lobbying for the total withdrawal of UN troops from Rwanda. Government employees were instructed not to use the word "genocide" to refer to what was going on. Tell me again how good and just your country is.
cardboardhut 1 year ago
@cardboardhut
rofl, I never said it was good or just. Pay attention to what I wrote. No country is "good and just". All countries have a stain on its reputation, even if they believed they were in the right-of-way. Read about Somalia if you haven't heard of it, it is one of the reasons US thought of it as a lost cause. Even though US did lobby against it, NO COUNTRY sent any efficient aid to be proud of. No one can complain at all in all honesty.
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@cardboardhut
You must also realize that the US do infact finance the UN. It gives the highest amount to the UN; 22% to be exact. Therefore, USA reserves the right to have an opinion in how and where it wants UN forces to be used as any other member state.
It was not only USA that didn't recognize it as a genocide. Many of the most powerful members in the UN council didn't want to refer it as genocide because it will force them to act.
I am basically saying, lots of people are hipocrit
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 criticism * : )
EpicFilms 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1
I agree with you up to the Shut the fuck up! As an American, its an extremely frustrating mindset from the world community.
We did more good to the Pakistanis (many of whom would've fired at our helicopters on any other day) during their recent disastrous floods than our own people in Katrina, and then we "weren't doing enough".
There are so many examples like this! I wish we stopped the Rwandan genocide like most of us do, but it was Rwandans committing the crimes.
Mantisisland 1 year ago
@Mantisisland
Thanks for the support. I realized my last words was too harsh right when I hit the post button. It was too late to correct without deleting and re-writing it. I probably should have apologized for it, was frustrated. I am not angry, just annoyed at the constant generalizations I hear on youtube.
Especially when its coming from allied nations such as UK, whom I consider to be outstanding allies.
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1
Yeah no prob.
Any French give you grief about USA and Rwanda I'll tell them to shut the fuck up for you... it was partly their cash, weapons, and training that supplied the genocidal Hutu army in this conflict! It was also leftover colonialistic influence that helped make that place such a mess anyway.
I say, if anyone, European nations should've played a bigger role!
Mantisisland 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1
That being said, Dallaire is a hero of mine!
Mantisisland 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 hey bro same thing in canada we have a lot of people from all those countries they all nice people there a lot who just hate
PittsburghArenaPens 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 well you plant noses in people business when you shouldn't and when it came to a situation where not only the US but all the major power had the power to prevent it they refused, for example there is this vid of an american representative being asked about genocide, and she went about to ensure that she did not say that genocide was taking place, because if they did by law the UN forces could actually shoot an intervene
Adjei88 1 year ago
@Adjei88
Can you correctly label times when we "plant noses" in people's business when we shouldn't? That is more of an opinionated statement by the way.
Every conflict that we been in had good reason and intention since WW1. Its more of people trying to suggest that US thinks its a world police. This is an untrue statement as more Americans are isolationist.
I think we deserve the right considering how much we give to the world anyways. Even when our country is faltering, we still give aid
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 a fair point but look, in cambodia during the vietnam war america actually encouraged revolution in cambodia the result the khmer rouge took over and we knowwhat happened there, in Congo cia encouraged coup and tried to assasinate patrice lumumba result lumumba mercilessly murdered, mobutu who US and belgium supported replaced him, he turned out to be a frickin murderer who exploited congo,america where actually friends with iraq until they invaded oil rich kuwait, change is needed
Adjei88 1 year ago
@Adjei88
I see your points. US has a bad history of chosing sides for minor nations. Don't forget the Vietnam guy US supported until we seen that he was a major catholic and persecuted Budhists.
In the past, the CIA and US has always had black history of supporting people who turns out in the end to be people who shouldn't be in power. That is an accidental event though, due to the ones we supported hiding their true intentions.
Remember the fear of communism at that time caused problems
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 i understand what ur saying to an extent, but Lumumba was different, Lumumba was killed because he was preaching Pan-africanism, he basically wanted a Congo run by africans, US and belgium didn't want this especially belgium who wanted control of the diamond mines so they conspired to end him,
Adjei88 1 year ago
@Adjei88
Everything is easier to judge with hindsight.
Mantisisland 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 xDDD man you know that america successfully created an empire? and the usa are somehow ruling the world indirectly through the world bank (and it's sister organisations) and the international monetary fund and so on.. and belgium... well, let's just say they are doing well not speaking against uncle sam's opinion ;)
Nontouchable 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 reason is because people don't like that the states is getting a lot black and latinos when dat what the world be soon even canada is the same
PittsburghArenaPens 1 year ago
@PittsburghArenaPens
Man, I have no clue what you are responding to me about or how it is relevant to the topic and hand. Can you please give information on what post of mines you are replying to?
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 It is pretty cobvious when and why the states intervenes in countries. In this case the lack there of is clearly demonstrated buy the economic stability of Rwanda at the time of the massacre and the strategic uselessness as well as unprofitable resources
disturbedfrog 1 year ago
@disturbedfrog
THAT and the fact that Somlia caused a deep bitter feeling in trying to help other countries that seem to have no hope whatsoever in stabilizing.
In order for those countries to stabilize, they need to fix it themselves with strong-willed leaders. Another country can't help 100% of the time.
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
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@RashawnBlue1
Don't forget we are the #1 most popular country. Everyone looks at US and gets ready to bash when they feel US done something wrong. Are you forgetting that relativeley few U.N members intervened in Rwanda? The only ones that was willing to send troops were those that were small countries.
You can't talk about one country when EVERY country does (or would do if they were capable) it themselves and that is the annoying part. You can thank bad Iintelligence info on that.
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@RashawnBlue1 No see, people get pissed when the U.S. invades countries for resource or stratigic gain (Iraq = oil, Serbia = oil shipping access from the middle east to the U.S) and claims the moral high road (Iraq - WMD's, Serbia - genocide) when we all know they are full of shit. Then when an ACTUAL GENOCIDE occurs they PRETEND they don't know (ie: there are no resources, and, who cares about the "nig's") Most Americans just watch CNN and are just to stupid to see it
freakdp1 1 year ago
@freakdp1
Don't forget we are the #1 most popular country. Everyone looks at US and gets ready to bash when they feel US done something wrong. Are you forgetting that relativeley few U.N members did not intervene in Rwanda? The only ones that was willing to send troops were those that were small countries.
You can't talk about one country when EVERY country does (or would do if they were capable) it themselves and that is the annoying part. You can thank bad Iintelligence info on that.
RashawnBlue1 1 year ago
@freakdp1 I basicly agree on Iraq, but if you've talk to people who served in former yugoslavia you'll know that that wasnt about strategic gain but really about genocide. Sure, the US wasnt the US if it wouldnt try and make a strategic gain out of it, but i think thats a small price to pay to bring back stability.
And iam no big US fan, but if they intervene they do it for their own gain and if they don't intervene its because there wouldnt be a strategic gain. The lose popularity either way.
Kijzer13 1 year ago