Global Citizenship

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s news. However, “no effort was made at peacekeeping headquarters to alert the United Nations Secretariat or the Security Council of the startling news that an ‘extermination’ was reportedly being planned in Rwanda” (105). Imagine the multitude of lives that may have been saved had the international community heeded the warnings given by Dallaire’s informant.
Despite this knowledge of an approaching slaughter, “the foreign-aid money poured into Habyarimana’s coffers, and weapons kept arriving – from France, from Egypt, from apartheid South Africa” (94). When donors occasionally showed concern over the killings of Tutsis, people were arrested, soon released, and never brought to trial. “To soothe foreign nerves, the government portrayed the killings as ‘spontaneous’ and ‘popular’ acts of ‘anger’ or ‘self-protection’” (94). It is unbelievable that countries continued their support of the Hutu government when there were so many signals that these activities were taking place.
The United States was...