Showing posts with label rwanda genocide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rwanda genocide. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Keep Your Eyes On The Current Humanitarian Calamity in Rwanda!


Everyone should know by now about the 1994 mass killings in Rwanda. Here in the US there weren't many people who knew about it including me. But by seeing movies like Sometime in April & Hotel Rwanda, a lot of people have been clued in on the genocide that has taken place there.This video touches on another aspect of the Rwanda killings. The surviving witnesses to the Rwanda mass murders are being killed.For an even deeper insight on the 1994 Rwandan incident go here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/

Well, there is a horrific crisis going on at this very moment. Here is an excerpt from CNN Africa:

"He called the humanitarian situation "very alarming," said more than 50,000 people "are on the road," and expressed hope that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon would send a high-level envoy to the region for talks "as soon as possible."

Representatives of European countries "are talking together" about how best to ease the situation, Ripert said. "We are looking into the most effective and fastest way of helping MONUC," he said, using the French acronym for the U.N. mission in Congo.

Nkunda has accused the Congolese government of failing to protect the Tutsi tribe from Rwandan Hutu militia in Congo." (END OF EXCERPT) Read the full article here:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/29/congo.fighting/index.html