Posted on Mar 7, 2020
Explainer: Why it took 40 years to pass a bill acknowledging the Armenian genocide
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Great article. In genocide situations, politics usually trumps morality. The one that enrages me is Rwanda. The slow motion genocide was carried out by a couple thousand guys with machetes roaming from town to town, killing about 10,000 per day fro 100 days. A small commitment of troops could have stopped it dead, yet we and the rest of the world did nothing, all for political reasons. And that genocide led directly to the Congo civil wars that killed another five million or more. Six million dead because Bill Clinton did not feel intervention was politically expedient. Sucks.
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1SG Steven Imerman
1SG (Join to see) - That one gets my goat, too. Neither George W nor Obama lifted a finger to help hundreds of thousands of Black farmers killed by government supported Arab militias. Again, a fairly small group of people, this time on horseback, with a few technicals (pickup mounted machine guns). In both cases, a brigade of the 101st would do it. Two battalions of infantry to hold the airbase, a battalion of choppers, and a support battalion. Attack helicopters would be all it took to stop things in both cases, maybe drop an infantry company on the ground briefly, now and again. If we are going to police the world, we should at least help the helpless.
(Steve climbs down off the soapbox and wanders off still muttering to himself in angry tones.)
(Steve climbs down off the soapbox and wanders off still muttering to himself in angry tones.)
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1SG Steven Imerman - I worked some of the aftermath in the refugee camps in Northern Kenya. I can say without equivocation that was the single worst thing I have ever seen in my time in the Army, and I was in Rwanda for the NEO Evacuation in '94.
Child prostitutes (the youngest I met was 8).
Organ harvesting.
Disease and horrible conditions.
Rampant rape.
Just terrible.
Child prostitutes (the youngest I met was 8).
Organ harvesting.
Disease and horrible conditions.
Rampant rape.
Just terrible.
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1SG Steven Imerman - This particular camp was run by the African Union, but had UN "oversight" if you can call it that.
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