Yes, he had to act, otherwise everyone in there would have been killed, and the airline Sabena (who owned the hotel) would have had blood on their hands.
The groups existed before lmfao. Hutu and Tutsi were hundreds of years in place by the time that Germans showed up and then Belgians. @@jamaryjeanjules4144
I distinctly remember this being in the news everyday for weeks. I saw the news stories and remember thinking - This can't be really happening, it's too horrible.
Yes. Western powers got a bad rap for not sending in their armies but that takes a massive amount of effort especially for the time constraints being "immediately". The US had the power projection capabilities of making it on time but it needs to be approved and when you get there who do you fight? The Hutu? That would have been an absolute mess all the while everywhere the US military ISN'T there are massacres happening. You'd need to garrison the whole country all while being attack in hit and run ambushes. The US public wasn't ready for that so soon after Somalia and other interventions like this. The people who criticize the US don't understand what exactly they could do to stop people on the other side of the world from killing their neighbors with machetes so spontaneously. If a neighboring country sent over their troops it would have made much more sense but they let it happen too despite being next door to the genocide.
@@HavanaSyndrome69don’t be so naive to defend the eu or America or any of the European countries that had the abilities and means to stop this but didn’t they should all be held accountable.
@@chrismarple What about the accountability of the people who did the killing? You're mad because europeans and americans didn't save the people of Rwanda from themselves.
I love how it shows just unaware they majority of people were about the Rwanda genocide. Despite having terrible atrocities and violence, not much of it was broadcasted to the Western People, likely for a combination of lack of coverage and intentional repression by the U.N and EU
Tribalism was not a problem in Rwanda before the arrival of colonialism. Hutus, Tutsis, and Twa cohabited peacefully, though not equally, until Belgians came and arbitrarily decided that Tutsis were a superior race. Before that, they designated classes, not races; Hutus could actually move upward from their lower social stratum and become Tutsi by acquiring more material wealth. Much as the Nazis made up Germanic racial facial types, Belgians propagated the myth that Tutsis looked one way and that Hutus looked another. Twa were already set apart by dint of their short stature and were also targeted during the genocide.
Alex Warnke kind of an understatement, no? Belgium fucked up Rwanda beyond all recognition-as did many other colonizing countries elsewhere in Africa. It was largely agricultural and, as I said, peaceful before they arrived and completely restructured the social system and power dynamics. Their presence did Rwanda no favors at any point. Gérard Prunier is a great authority on this and I highly recommend reading him to understand the pervasive and ruinous nature of colonialism's effects on Rwanda if you haven't.
@@Aquamarinix_ Just that Paul very narrowly said the right things to the right people to survive and get everyone out. Came very close. Not sure how close it happened in reality, might have been a bit less dramatic.
@@KennethSee dont remember the name, but its the guy who played the assistant inspector in the pink panther live action movie, and the french "officer" in godzilla 2003
France saw in the RPF a threat to it's presence through the Hutu governement, because the RPF was formed of Tutsi coming from Uganda and Burundi and exclusively anglophone, unlike the Hutu whom were francophone. Therefore, a RPF would have strained Rwanda from France.
