Re: Genocide
- From: "columbiaaccidentinvestigation" <columbiaaccidentinvestigation@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Jan 2007 14:29:15 -0800
On Jan 29, 2:03 pm, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
columbiaaccidentinvestigation wrote:
Let me help you Pat, here is a little history of the Rwandan 1994
genocide where "800,000 had been murdered, another 2 million or so had
fled, and another million or so were displaced internally.", to make
it a little easier for you to apply Jim's anecdote of stopping and
helping people in a prior post on this thread, to the genocide that
occurred in Rwanda between the Hutu and the Tutsi in 1994?
http://clinton2.nara.gov/Africa/rwanda.htmlAnd the United States was responsible for this how, exactly?I remember this... people were running around cutting each other's heads
off with machetes.
First the Tutsis would hack off Hutu heads; then the Hutus would hack
off Tutsi heads in revenge, and in revenge for that, the Tutsis
would...and on and on.
Since they were getting such a big kick out of doing this to each other,
why intervene? So they could both get a big kick out hacking off our
heads instead of each others? That's how things went in Somalia, didn't
they?
If we were to stumble into Darfur in an attempt to fix things up there,
that's also how it will probably come out.
Pat
We have many things to learn from the past local and distant peoples,
but you do have a right and a free will to choose to ignore events in
the world, but then you must at least understand and admit that
history shows atrocities were committed against the indigenous peoples
of North America by our government. You see pat, denying history,
especially the events we do not like to admit occurred, just weakens
us as a nation for we do not have the pillars of history to learn from
as our nation, and civilized society grows.
And I guess you're right it doesn't matter if you used spiritual, or
scientifically based records for reference, it is clear genocide has
occurred throughout all "mans" life on earth, but wouldn't it be part
of advancing as a civilized society and nation to respond to events of
genocide in the world when we become aware of them?
Once again, you can subjectively pick and choose which events of
genocide warrant action by our nation, and we can deny the
repercussions of our non action, but once we become aware of such
events no matter where in the world, non action itself is
demonstrating approval of others performing genocide. Action can take
many forms, it is our choice as the economic, political, or military
power of the United States has many things it can accomplish, and as
rand pointed out on other threads, it is up to America's will to take
action, or stay engaged.
And just to help your search here is a map of the Indian reservations
located across the continental U.S...
tom
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