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ENG 205 Week 5
Topic 1
After watching "Ghosts of Rwanda", I found myself very disappointed in the United Nations, more than I was in The United States. I have always seen the UN as a group of world leaders, who's job is to keep peace and protection in the world. They should not have given into the threat and attack on UN peacekeepers, and further more it was their fault the Belgian soldiers were killed. How were the Belgian soldiers expected to protect the Prime Minister from hostel forces by means of just negotiating? The UN told the soldiers to not use force even when they had shot fired at them and the person they were mean to protect was being pursued to be killed.
Topic 2
One big question I found myself wondering is why the UN personnel were referred to as, "Peace keepers". It was in the middle of a genocide that the UN personnel first arrived. That should have been noted from the start, it was not a peace keeping mission anymore. It was a save as many Tutsis as you can mission, or at least it should have been.
This is one of the main questions I will be posing in my Research essay on Rwanda, Im excited to start my into depth research on the matter, for I want to understand why, when there was the chance of saving thousands of lives, such a powerful organization and powerful country pulled out and left the people to die.
After watching "Ghosts of Rwanda", I found myself very disappointed in the United Nations, more than I was in The United States. I have always seen the UN as a group of world leaders, who's job is to keep peace and protection in the world. They should not have given into the threat and attack on UN peacekeepers, and further more it was their fault the Belgian soldiers were killed. How were the Belgian soldiers expected to protect the Prime Minister from hostel forces by means of just negotiating? The UN told the soldiers to not use force even when they had shot fired at them and the person they were mean to protect was being pursued to be killed.
Topic 2
One big question I found myself wondering is why the UN personnel were referred to as, "Peace keepers". It was in the middle of a genocide that the UN personnel first arrived. That should have been noted from the start, it was not a peace keeping mission anymore. It was a save as many Tutsis as you can mission, or at least it should have been.
This is one of the main questions I will be posing in my Research essay on Rwanda, Im excited to start my into depth research on the matter, for I want to understand why, when there was the chance of saving thousands of lives, such a powerful organization and powerful country pulled out and left the people to die.
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Comment by Melissa Storms on February 9, 2009 at 7:03pm - You should see Pray the Devil Back to Hell-- it shows the power of nonviolent resistance-- based on the true story of women who said "Enough!" to violence and helped end the regime of one of the most brutal dictators in the world.
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Comment by Caitlin on February 8, 2009 at 6:07pm - I always thought that was the role of the United Nations too. I agree that a lot could have been different in Rwanda had the United Nations used more force. To me it seems like negotiating only works when one group is beaten to a pulp, then at the last minute before being totally defeated they agree to negotiate. Even though it is not good to fight violence with violence sometimes it seems like the last resort. Do you think that fighting back against the Hutu things would have been better?
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