Rwanda: 800,000 Dead in 100 Days

After the Holocaust, The world agreed: "Never Again" ... Never Again would we fail to act to prevent such atrocities to men, women, and children, anywhere in the world. 

Romeo Dallaire knew he could have stopped the 1994 slaughter in Rwanda. As the United Nations Military Commander in Rwanda at the time, he said he needed only 5,500 United Nations troops to stop the horrendous violence and nationwide terror. The United States could have made the difference, working with the UN to do exactly what the UN was intended to do, rather than pull UN peacekeepers out, thereby abandoning 800,000 Rwandans and their loved ones to their tragic, brutal deaths, maiming, and unspeakable horror.“[T]he international community, through an inept UN mandate and what can only be described as indifference, self-interest and racism, aided and abetted these crimes against humanity.” - Roméo Dallaire

Dallaire is clear: the genocide could have been prevented if the UN operation had received the modest increase of troops and capabilities he requested. Could we have stopped the killings? Dallaire answers, “Yes, absolutely.”

“Could we have prevented the resumption of the civil war and the genocide? The short answer is yes. If UNAMIR had received the modest increase of troops and capabilities we requested in the first week, could we have stopped the killings? Yes, absolutely.” - Roméo Dallaire

As Dallaire explains, “There is no doubt that [the United States and France] possessed the solution to the Rwandan crisis."

The tragic history of genocide is now repeating itself. The United States and the international community have failed to take effective action to stop the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.

THERE ARE SOLUTIONS. The only thing stopping those solutions from being implemented is a powerful grassroots call by the American people for our government to provide the missing international leadership.

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