Friday, April 6, 2018

THE WORLD HELPED TO MURDER 800,000 RWANDANS


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Roméo Dallaire: Fighting Against Indifference
In the face of human rights violations, indifference can sometimes be a default response. It is often easiest to be indifferent – to keep one's head down. But indifference is not a neutral response. It contributes to an…
  • Canadian Museum for Human Rights

    April 7 is International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.
    Museum Researcher-Curator Dr. Jeremy Maron interviewed Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, UN leader of the Rwanda mission at the time, about how the world responded with indifference to repeated pleas for help.
    Due to the inaction from the global community, more than 800,000 people were killed. Lieutenant-General Dallaire wonders if perhaps a belief that "some humans are more human than others" determines whether we intervene in crisis situations or not.
    Lieutenant-General Dallaire's perspective provoked Maron to look at victims of violence with a new perspective and to discover a shared humanity in unexpected places.
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    Phyllis Carter - JUST AS THE WORLD TURNED ITS BACK ON THE JEWS BEING SLAUGHTERED BY HITLER, EVERYONE IGNORED THE MASSACRES IN RWANDA IN SPITE OF ROMEO DALLAIRE'S DESPERATE PLEAS. THIS WORLD IS FULL OF SELF-CENTRED, COLD-BLOODED PEOPLE. IT'S A WONDER EARTH HAS NOT BEEN DESTROYED YET.
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