Thursday, October 30, 2008

Rwanda all over again

In the article I read on the current congonese conflict that is extremly similar to the Rwandan crisis of 1994. The main difference this time is that the U.N peace keeping force is more activly involved and instead of the Hutus attacking the Tutsis it is the Tutsi rebel forces attacking the legetimate government of the Congo. The current situation is quite dismal because the rebel forces consist of 10,000 well supplied rebels while the government forces are disbanded and ununified. However the U.N. recently implimented a new mandate allowing the peace keeping forces to disarm the rebels by force, (enabling them to attack with military might). The one catch is that they are out numbered as the U.N. only has 6,000 troops that are spread out thin and disliked by the natives. The Nationals are displeased with the U.N. performance because the peace keeping force doesn't have the ability to help keep the civilians from harm (their main reason for being there), and have started to stone the sites that the U.N. are using for bases. On top of that the government forces set up artillary behind that U.N. and then fire and run leaving the U.N. to deal with the counter-attack. Because of the U.N.'s inability to protect civilians another ethnic cleansing is eminent. However it will be the opposite of Rwanda with the Tutsis "cleaning" themselves of the Hutus.

link:
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world/20081030/AF.Congo.Peacekeeping.Disarray/

2 comments:

Erik P. said...

This have a tendency to creep forward when no one is looking. Racism doesn't dissipate that quickly. There is a gap between peoples, and the most important thing is to make that gap disappear. If no one tries to make things better, then they won't. It's as simple as that. History repeats itself, and if we don't learn lessons from the past then they will just repeat themselves.

Samantha said...

This is so scary! I'm glad your informed us about the situation because other wise I would have most likely never known! It's crazy how history seems to repeats it's self like that. There are obviously some issues people need to work out that were not resolved the first time around.

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