Hotel Rwanda Response (Topic #2)

There are many ways that the world failed the people of Rwanda during the genocide. First, the French sponsored and supplied weapons to the Hutus. The French gained profit from the bloodshed of the Tutsi people. Similar to this, there were extremely large amounts of machetes being imported from China. It is clear that these machetes were not meant for agricultural use. Many of the events contributing to the Rwandan genocide were caused by Belgian imperialism that occurred earlier in Rwanda. Therefore, it is not right that when about 2,000 Tutsi refugees came to a UN troops compound for shelter, the Belgian soldiers guarding the compound abandoned the Tutsis and left them to die. Lastly, it would have been possible for some kind of intervention force to help the Tutsi people, although the world simply watched this happen, knowing everything that was happening in Rwanda. Due to these facts it is evident that the world failed the people of Rwanda.