As an internationally recognized terror, the Rwandan Genocide was nothing more than an act of brutality and murder. During the months of April through June of 1994, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi countrymen were tortured and killed all due to a planned attack by the Hutu majority. It is hard to understand that this was internationally recognized and yet the U.S. and other western powers such as Belgium and France just stood by and ignored this act. …showed first 75 words of 838 total…

…showed last 75 words of 838 total…happening in Rwanda. We did not want to feel obligated to go over to Rwanda and help out a suffering nation. But what if we did? Would anything have changed? Alison Des Forges says that they would have. “Protests from abroad, as hesitant and conditional as they were, did produce changes in tactics. If such small efforts could get results, imagine what a firmer stand, taken earlier, might have produced.” (Press Release in March of 1999)