This isn't really news (france's involvement at some level) to anyone who has done some reading on the genocide.
This is an older book by this point, but its one that does a good job of trying to make sense of the genocide. Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gerad Prunier.
And of course for a perspective from a peace-keeping point of view, Romeo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil is worth a read.
There's probably a snowball's chance in hell of anyone from France ever being prosecuted.
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edited August 2008
No one from France will be prosecuted, and I think even most Rwandese have come to accept this.
It would just be nice if someone from the French government would stand up and say they were sorry and make some kind of conciliatory gesture. Oh yeah, and if French judges would stop trying RPF leaders, and if the French government would stop protecting genocide-perpetrators.
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BobCescaIs a girlBirmingham, UKRegistered Userregular
Well, we did. That's just the simple, plain, and brutal truth.
What options do we even have to fix this? All I can think of is a patronizing and demeaning total intervention by western powers...
i'm going to go ahead and say that would probably make things worse
No kidding. Duh.
But what solutions do we have?
To help lift the region out of the mess it's currently in? Not really anything direct beyond supporting social, economic, and political development in actual effective ways (ie- not 'throwing' aid at them) and lending support and encouragement to regional institutions to work at fixing their region. Considering even the relatively stable regions in Africa depend heavily on the stability of their neighbors to remain in an upward movement it would help if we could persuade many of the countries that looking out for their collective interests is probably what is going to keep their own individual country from sinking back into crap.
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This is an older book by this point, but its one that does a good job of trying to make sense of the genocide. Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gerad Prunier.
And of course for a perspective from a peace-keeping point of view, Romeo Dallaire's Shake Hands with the Devil is worth a read.
There's probably a snowball's chance in hell of anyone from France ever being prosecuted.
It would just be nice if someone from the French government would stand up and say they were sorry and make some kind of conciliatory gesture. Oh yeah, and if French judges would stop trying RPF leaders, and if the French government would stop protecting genocide-perpetrators.
interesting reading...
To help lift the region out of the mess it's currently in? Not really anything direct beyond supporting social, economic, and political development in actual effective ways (ie- not 'throwing' aid at them) and lending support and encouragement to regional institutions to work at fixing their region. Considering even the relatively stable regions in Africa depend heavily on the stability of their neighbors to remain in an upward movement it would help if we could persuade many of the countries that looking out for their collective interests is probably what is going to keep their own individual country from sinking back into crap.
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