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Foreign Affairs › Re: Rwanda Genocide: A Survivor's Heart Rending Testimony (Pics) by metalgear11(m): 6:31pm On Nov 01, 2018

naptu2:
I listened to an interview that General Roméo Dallaire gave to the BBC World Service in the early 2000s.

General Dallaire was the head of the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda before and during the genocide. He suspected that the killings were about to happen and he asked the UN for more troops (his force was pretty small) but they refused to send more troops to him. The Americans did not want to send more troops to another African country (that they did not really care about) after what happened to their troops in Somalia.

He also asked for permission to seize weapons that the Hutus were stockpiling, but his superiors in New York refused to give him permission.

Eventually he had to focus his small body of troops on parts of Kigali in which he knew that Tutsis were hiding. He eventually saved thousands of Tutsis.

Yet he had post traumatic stress disorder because of the events that he witnessed in Rwanda. He repeatedly tried to kill himself because of the psychological torture he experienced whenever he remembered what happened in Rwanda.

I watched a documentary about this genocide some months ago and it's then that I became finally convinced about the hypocrisy of the western world. Times without number General Dallaire requested for more troops from the UN as he knew this genocide was gonna happen but the UN turned a deaf ear. He lost 8 of his soldiers in the early days of the genocide. Journalists managed to capture the atrocities being committed. Once the whole thing was over, some representatives finally made it over to see things for themselves. They started sympathizing, saying if they had known, they would have done something sooner. I was like what the heck?

One lady managed to escape the whole bloodshed and found her way to Washington. She pleaded with some of the members there. One pulled her aside and said, "We dont have friends, we only have interests. We can't help u". Cue the fake concern afterwards. Bill Clinton even visited.

That's when I was convinced. Once they stand nothing to gain, they aren't interested. But let it be something about oil or other national interests, I'm sure troops would have been there in the first week. Almost a million people killed in 100 days. It was a systematic genocide that even surpassed the Final Solution.

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Romance › Re: Bosun's Diary. by metalgear11(m): 10:31pm On Oct 30, 2018

This story had me hooked from the start. Nice work.

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Romance › Re: Help!! She's Becoming Too Needy & Inconsiderate by metalgear11(m): 7:40pm On Oct 21, 2018

IamD18:
She's doing the expected by being naive and clingy because you are her first man. Any blunt attempt to caution her will leave her feelings hurt and make it look like you changed after getting down with her.

Believe me when I tell you that you'll be disturbed when she start making you less important by giving zero fvcks about your attention and existence in her life.

My advice is; GET HER BUSY.

An idle man thinks of easy and illegal ways to make money, while an idle woman thinks about LOVE.

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