Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38ymdFu-70Y

     This is a five minute video that shows a lot about what happened in Rwanda and how other countries like the United States reacted. One thing that really caught my attention in this video was how young some of the killers were and how young some of those who died were. It is really horrible to think about experiencing something like this, whether you are the killer or the victim, especially at such a young age as some of the people were. Looking at all the piles of bodies in this video it does not look real and to me is extremely hard to believe. However, as soon as I get myself around to realizing that they were all human bodies and souls it is extremely devastating to think about. In this video it also says that the public just said that the massacre in Rwanda was an old ethnic war that no one could do anything about. However the video claims that the massacre was really just a politically organized genocide. This is also an awful thing to think about because the countries own government was so racist that they started the genocide. What was even more hurtful to the ones suffering in Rwanda was the fact that the other countries who knew this was going on refused to use the word 'genocide' in public because doing so would bring up certain legal responsibilities because of their government. One of those countries was America which decided not to recognize the genocide until most of the Tutsi population was dead and because of the legal consequences. Luckily in July of 1994 the Rwandan patriotic front rebels overthrew the Hutu regime and ended the genocide. I thought this was a very insightful video which showed a lot of the important basics about the genocide.