Role of The International Community in The Rwandan Genocide - International Response

International Response

Most of the world stood on the sidelines during the Rwandan genocide based on past slaughters that took place in Yugoslavia. As reports of the genocide spread through the media the Security Council supplied more than five thousand troops to give a strong force. But because of the delay and denial of recommendations, the deployed prevented the force from getting there on time and arrived months after the genocide was over. In the events that took place after the genocide, many government officials in the community mourned over the loss of many and were surprised about the world’s obliviousness to the situation that could have prevented the massacre from taking place. The Rwandan genocide did not interest the outside world as the Yugoslavia genocide did. The outbreaks in Rwanda were seen as no sufficient interest and value to prevention of the violence and was not interest to warrant the expense of resources and the risk to losing more casualties and spreading. Essentially the people were forgotten. Once the news-stands filled with the casualties international communities noticed and felt compelled to act. The delay caused thousands of Rwandan lives to be lost and metal and psychological scared millions of those who lived the story.

The world was influenced by the television broadcastings of the Rwandan genocides. It made the administrations reluctant to involve itself with the United Nations operations and the continent with Africa. The publicity gave an outcry that an intervention would be misunderstood. The United Nations peacekeeping troops had gone to Rwanda to direct the aim of the killings but were told directly by the United Nations not to act. The failure to act was abandonment to the country of Rwanda, but they were advised to pull out the troops if they were in harm’s way of peacekeeping. The meaning of genocide can never be prevented completely as the United Nations does not clearly provide. The mass killings of the Tutsi were not stopped because the countries intervened and helped but because the genocide was finished. In conclusion the issues that influence public and national politics will continue and not be expected for a nation to alone recognize, close and set proper punishments of the crimes of genocide before they are completed. The responsibility should lie within international organizations. This cannot happen without decisions made that are greater than any member nation together. Together the organization must see beyond the problems of the other member nations such as popularity and to act professionally to crush and stop potential genocides when or before they begin. Do women children and men need to be brutally raped and murdered to get attention for help, when does the rights of humans matter to the communities organizations to step up and help, when rights are violated and taken away.