This chart compares the death tolls of many major mass murders. As is shown on the graph, the Rwandan conflict had the second highest death toll. In came in second with five hundred thousand. That is an insanely huge for a country that is only nine thousand six hundred and thirty three square miles and a population of nine million, seven hundred twenty, six hundred ninety four (9,720,694). In present time we are concerned about the Iraq war and as you can see by these statistics the Iraqi war is nowhere near as large as the Rwandan death toll. Which conflict did the US chose to help out with? The war that had the lower amount of deaths, Iraq. It is also interesting that the Rwandan conflict, the mass killings, happened in three to four months and had a higher death rate than every other conflict besides the Afghanistan civil war. The conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda that was provoked by the Belgian decision to have the Tutsis rule had a huge affect on the population of the small country. The amount of killings were out of the window in a matter of months. This is one of the conflicts the United Nations and United States should have gotten involved in, no matter what had just happened in Somalia.
True, but, as always, America doesn't get involved unless it's in the "national interest". Of course, how do you measure "national interest"? We certainly aren't polling the U.S. population to see whether or not they're interested.
ReplyDeleteIt turns out we just get screwed by our corrupt government, who choose to disregard great conflicts such as the Rwandan genocide while focusing on more immediately profitable excursions, e.g. Iraq. Such is life!