What happend in Rwanda in 1997?
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I'm not sure about 1997 ... but if you think about the Genocide in Rwanda (the masacre of the Tutsi population by the Hutu), that took place in 1994.\nThe background of the genocide is extensive, with roots to be found in Belgian colonialism (the Belgians transformed the Tutsies into a sort of elite with more right and priviledges - when the belgians left, a radical Hutu party won elections and several massacres took place along the years, forcing the Tutsi into exile).\nThe genocide was trigged after the assasination of the Hutu president of Rwanda, which was in the middle of the peace talks with the Tutsi rebels (Arusha Peace Accords). After his death (april 6 1994), the Rwandan Armed Forces disputed the outcome of the Peace Accords and the presidential guard assassinated several moderate Hutu dignitaries, including Prime Minister Uwilingiyimana (she was killed in broad daylight, along with her 10 UN belgian guards). The same night, two Hutu extremists group began rounding up Tutsis all over the country and summarely executing them. The first 40 days saw the death of about 600 thousand Tutsi civilians.\nThe genocideended 100 days later, on 22 July of 1994 when the Tutsi rebels overthrew the Hutu interim govt and ended the massacre, which by then counted around 1 million casualties among the Tutsi. The UN did not authorize any kind of military intervention to stop or prevent the massacre despite early warning reports.\n- US declared it was an 'internal affair' and refused to intervene\n- France opposed direct intervention fearing this will allow greater involvment by the UK in the area and kept to humanitarian aid\n- the UN envoy and the chief of the UN presence there, Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh, greatly watered down reports by UN military commander General Dallaire and even forbid him to halt UK and France armament shipments for the Hutu militia.\n\nNotable side-events: the handling of the crisis by the Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was one of the reasons US vetoed his second mandate (and was the first Secretary General to have a single mandate, was followed by Kofi Annan), Paul Rusesabagina - manager of the Mille Collines Resort in Kigali was awarded the Nobel Prize for his involvment in saving about one thousand refugees.
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bah c'est déjà fait...en 1998....je sais mauvaise blague! Mais oui bien sûr! Pourquoi pas, ça serait bien que la Coupe du Monde "parte" un peu en Afrique.
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look at Rwanda.  it is in a terrible place:  a landlocked country in central Africa and is so small.  it is in no way a tactical place to be.  it has no shore to dock ships and no oil or mineral reserves.  unfortunately, helping them would have been a waste of time and funds (military and tactically speaking).  \n\nso, on to Hitlers genocide.  Hitler was a very clear threat and was more than capable of taking over all of mainland Europe during the beginning of the war.  thats why we stopped Hitler.  \n\nalso, Clinton tried helping an African country back in 1993.  remember Somalia and Black Hawk Down?  Clinton didnt help Rwanda in '94 because he wanted to avoid a similar incident.
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Uh, yeah!\n\nIt was genocide, it is still happening, but the US Government will never apologize becuase they dont/wont ever believe that what they did to us was/is wrong.\n\nNot killing brain cells holding my breath on this one
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Everyone please wake up! I am from SA and there are no wars\nor such stuff going on here! The only war that is going on here is the war against AIDS and poverty. So please get your facts correct before you try to answer something about another country.
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In the early 90's after the former Soviet union collapsed
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The Rwandan Genocide lasted 100 days from April 6th through mid-July 1994.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda_genocide\nRwandan Patriotic Front\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Patriotic_Front#The_Rwandan_Genocide_and_Civil_War
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Except for the small detail of the army that's perpetrating that genocide, yes.  The problem is that malnourished people without weapons cannot overtake a governmental army.  It also doesn't help that the African Union is doing nothing to help the situation there.  They have 7,000 troops (who don't do anything) to patrol an area the size of France.
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For starters, the 2 countries are geographically worlds and years apart. Bambodia in Asia, and Rwanda in So. Africa.\n\nIn Cambodia, it done in the name political doctrine, "Communism".\nIn Rwanda, in the name of tribalism.\nIn real life whether it's political or tribalism, they both end up in the same place, power and control.\n\nCambodia, was more popular, and had more western powers directly involved, because of the soviets.\nRwanda, was the opposite, the west got involved only after cries from the media, they was no percieved western enemy in Rwanda, no oil and anything of interest to the west.\n\nIn Cambodia, one people divided when the west colonized the country, the the cambodians were trying the unite it again.\nIn Rwanda, different and independent tribes, that somestimes were at war with each other, were forced into one nation when the west colonized the area. And there are reliving the animosity that existed before the west conquered them, and forced them into one nation. \n\n.
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According to Anne Rapin "Something quite extraordinary happened on the evening of Sunday, July 12, 1998: France, playing at home against the current title holders, Brazil, won the World Cup. By three goals to nil. An event with unexpected national and international repercussions... "\n\nHope this is what you were looking for...
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You are actually thinking of Somali thugs dragging soldiers before the CNN cameras in Mogadishu. None of the heros murdered in Rwanda were American soldiers. They were largely Belgian and various African nations. Because the world was not paying attention, there were virtually no cameras in attendance to show off in front of.
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Genocide. And the rest of the world turns its back...so God help!
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Not sure, but i did find this little funny article\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3080379.stm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991#Events
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Genocide is killing or causing serious harm to members of a national, ethnic or religious group. Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines it in more detail. \n\nIn the Rwandan genocide in 1994, two extremist Hutu militia groups killed over 900,000 members of the Tutsi as well as moderate Hutus. Unfortunately, neither the United Nations or other nations did anything to stop the massacre.\n\nIn 2004, Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed that Sudanese Government backed Arab militia had committed abuses that left 1.2 million black African Sudanese homeless. This was also known as the Darfur massacre.
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Basically the Hutus and the Tutsis had it out for each other.  In 1994 800,000 Tutsis were massacred by the Hutu's. The Hutus are the slighter of the two and were under the ruling thumb of the Tutsis for years.
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try www.infoplease.com/year/1998.html