claseek:
I swear.. And that's what makes it so crazy. Humans are the worst jeez

RB007:


The woman will forever have that hate in her.

A whole family wiped out

She's strong though.

Mintayo:

Its unimaginable what the man must have seen, the killings, and all that. Its enough to make someone go mad. After watching hotel Rwanda and sometimes in April some years ago, i found it difficult to sleep for a long time. I just pray stuffs like this do not happen in Nigeria.

Osagyefo98:
Chaii

Even over. 200 thousand have been sent to their early graves by mohamurder buhari- Mr intagrity

Mintayo:

Its unimaginable what the man must have seen, the killings, and all that. Its enough to make someone go mad. After watching hotel Rwanda and sometimes in April some years ago, i found it difficult to sleep for a long time. I just pray stuffs like this do not happen in Nigeria.

DeckXavier:
oga closing down Nairaland won't solve anything, the streets will still be filled with people harboring hatred in their hearts... What is needed is justice and a sense of belonging for every tribe, we should be trying to stop tribalism, not the medium through which it happens... Stop the cause not the effects

bantudra:


nigeria own is different...igbos fought back....tutsi didnt had the chance to fight back....

biafran soldiers even tried to enter the south west....the yorubas are still baffled till today about that invasion....massackers happened in the north and not in the south west....what were they lookin for in the south west....??...they even sent away the army to show the igbos that they have nothing to do with it but they still tried to invade the south west....why...??

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.

OnyeOGA:
Stuff like this has already happened in Nigeria. The massacre of Odii people by Obasanjo. The massacre of Biafrans from 1967-1970. You guys should stop denying the fact that your nation massacred people just to force them to stay together with them. The world never speak of it because the hand of UN and Britain was in it.

Vivuch:
That was were Kofi Anan failed woefully as UN secretary general.

naptu2:


Kofi Annan wasn't the secretary general at the time.

The secretary general of the UN at the time was Boutros Boutros Ghalli of Egypt.

I remember that he requested for assistance but none of the Western Powers wanted to provide assistance because of what happened to the US in Somalia.

He blamed the US while the US blamed him. He had a spat with Madeline Albright who was the US ambassador to the UN.

A secretary general usually has two terms and Boutros Ghalli was serving Africa's first term, but Madeline Albright campaigned hard to ensure that he didn't get a second term.

Kofi Annan was thus elected to continue Africa's tenure.

Vivuch:
There is a difference between Biafran war and Rwanda genocide. The Igbo's retaliated the war, while the tutus never did.

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.

Roh50:



And to think that the head of UN then was our very own; Koffi Anan. I listened to a recent interview he did just before his death this year on BBC and he was asked about the genocide in Rwanda. He said he made a move then, but the U.N. security council refused to approve the sending of more troops to Rwanda even after General Dallaire made a request. He said, he has to abide by the agreed resolution.

The point in which the resolution was made is that it is an internal issue and since Rwanda was a sovereign nation, it's sovereignty has to be respected until they officially ask for help. He also said that the time was just not there to put every thing in place.

He further said of how once he was called upon to give account of the negligence of the U.N. during the genocide in Rwanda and he raised the issue of time and a journalist told him that God made the world in seven days but he allowed the genocide to go on for weeks. His answer was that God worked alone but in his case, he was working with the security council that were not disposed to sending more troops.

I guess in all in all, Rwanda Genocide was one question he has to answer everywhere he go till he breathed his last.

My own bit is that humanity is no longer for humanity. Humanity has failed humanity. No more value for what is good or bad, no value for morality, no value for life. What humanity values is what do I stand to gain or lose. U.N. could have step up to prevent this but majority of its members looked at it as what is it for them or their countries.

naptu2:


Kofi Annan wasn't the secretary general at the time.

The secretary general of the UN at the time was Boutros Boutros Ghalli of Egypt.

I remember that he requested for assistance but none of the Western Powers wanted to provide assistance because of what happened to the US in Somalia.

He blamed the US while the US blamed him. He had a spat with Madeline Albright who was the US ambassador to the UN.

A secretary general usually has two terms and Boutros Ghalli was serving Africa's first term, but Madeline Albright campaigned hard to ensure that he didn't get a second term.

Kofi Annan was thus elected to continue Africa's tenure.

naptu2:

Ishilove:

I wouldn't be surprised at all, after all didn't Jesus point out that "these people worship me with their lips but their hearts are far from me." On that day He said he will tell them to depart from him because they are workers of iniquity

naptu2:
Ishilove, Elfico, Vivuch, Roh50.

Since yesterday night I've been writing a piece that explains why the world did not intervene in the Rwanda crisis. I hope I finish it before the end of today.

I remember these issues very well. It all began with Ronald Reagan in the mid 1980s and the Somali debacle of 1993 was a crucial factor.

Ishilove:

What happened in Somalia with the Americans?