The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #82594   Message #1514586
Posted By: dianavan
03-Jul-05 - 03:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Happy Birthday CANUCKS
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday CANUCKS
Yes, guest Canadian, I am proud to live in a country that breeds men like Dallaire. Lets hope we can push other countries to recognize the need for a co-ordinated effort in Darfur.

From the above link:

"They knew how many people were dying," Dallaire says, no matter what word they used. "The world is racist," he says bitterly. ,' "Africans don't count; Yugoslavians do. More people were killed, injured, internally displaced, and refugeed in 100 days in Rwanda than in the whole eight to nine years of the Yugoslavia campaign," he says, and there are still peacekeeping troops in the former Yugoslavia while Rwanda is again off the radar. f "Why didn't the world react to scenes where women were held as shields so nobody could shoot back while the militia shot into the | crowd?" he asks. "Where... boys were drugged up and turned into child soldiers, slaughtering families?...Where girls and women were systematically raped before they were killed? Babies ripped out of their stomachs? ...Why didn't the world come?"
Dallaire supplies his own answer: "Because there was no self-interest....No oil. They didn't come because some humans are [considered] less human than others."