By some heartrending coincidence, there’s an interview with another survivor who was estimated to have been only 8 months old when the genocidaires murdered her entire family. She still has a nasty scar on her head from the machete gash as they tried to kill her also and left her for dead. A passerby who was fleeing happened upon her, all bloodied up, and picked her up. She nearly died from inanition as the stranger who was carrying her in her own flight could not find milk to feed her. But eventually they made it across the border to neighboring Burundi. Soldiers on the Burundian side revived her, after which she and her ‘new mother’ proceeded to a refugee facility. They stayed there for the next 8 years before finally going back to Rwanda. But then she couldn’t even begin to locate any surviving relatives because at 8 months old she didn’t even know what her original name had been. Obviously couldn’t recall anything from the period before the genocide. Her adoptive mother had no information about her either as she just hurriedly picked her out of a pile of dead bodies in the rush to escape the killers on her heels.

@John Arsebuckle For Americans, anyone who knows more than one language, it's noteworthy. I only know one. I've tried to learn other languages, it's not easy for me. Most Americans are easily impressed by people who speak more than one or two languages. We aren't taught other languages. Especially at such young ages. I should also point out that most Americans my age don't know a lot about things like the Genocide in Rwanda. Her telling me about her experience was eye opening. I had heard of the Rwandan Genocide but knew nothing about it. So I also think that it is not a bad thing to share so that more people know. I have asked her if it is ok for me to share her story sometimes. She said that I could and told me that she would like for people to know her story and to know more about her home. I would be just as proud of a white friend for going through such a traumatic childhood to go on and move to a whole other country on their own to go to school to become a mechanical engineer... not a "mechanic" although there isn't a thing wrong with working on cars or machines for a living. I actually misspoke in my initial post, she is in biochemical engineering, not mechanical engineering. I can (and do) brag about one of my white friends who had a great childhood and became a mechanical engineer but it's not relevant here. He has no connection to Rwanda. I have a white friend who's a pilot. Any chance I get, I brag about his accomplishments. I've got a white friend that's a doctor and another that is a nurse in a very difficult specialty. I brag about them all the time. But again, it's not relevant here so why would I talk about them here? I've also got a friend who put herself through college while pregnant and already caring for one kid on her own. She had a difficult childhood and has worked so hard for everything she has. But again, none of that is relevant to this video that I commented on. I'm not bragging about my friend's accomplishments because she's black or because she's from an African country. I brag about her because she is a good human being, she is very smart, and I am proud of her. I'd brag on her regardless of her history because she is a sweet person and because an engineering degree program is not an easy path. I am not great at complicated math and chemistry. I definitely could not do it myself. My degree program was not as hard as hers.

@John Arsebuckle Mechanical Engineer, not mechanic. In Rwanda the Tutsis and Hutus speak the same language, so that’s one language. Am guessing the other 2 are French and English. She wasn’t being racist, however you were being stupid, but then your name says it all. Dummy.

In Africa I've seen refugees that have never been to school that can speak 5 languages fluently

@John Arsebuckle Wow, your humble and generously gracious. I hope to one day be as friendly and open minded as you are. I'm proud to be able to comment on the words of the great JOHN ARSEBUCKLE! 👍 GREAT JOB! There, was that enough praise for you? I'm sorry your family never said that to you.

Our environment has a really big impact on how we behave

Lots of psychology research on regular people has proven this 100%

That's what will happen to our country if we don't work together and get our shit and priorities straight.

@@mikebeesley5458 true and very important words

Hence, nazism

If they were hutus then they not lucky survivor they are murderers. I anti hutu racist after this video. I mean rape squads??? Those are indeed the inferior race

It is weird to think that you escaped so much horror by not being born a year earlier

Maybe they participated??

@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 I have an overwhelming amount of survivors guilt. Both my parents lost all of their siblings. I always wonder where my uncle, aunts and cousins would be in life. I feel a burden to over achieve to justify my existence.

@@johnboy2349 both of my parents were Tutsis, if you can’t tell by my pfp- I’m 6’3, lightskin with a narrow frame. I definitely wouldn’t have made it. My parents are the same.

The baby was still feeding off the decapitated mother too she said after

Bla..

@dontfindmeples Both of those were the fault of government. In Rwanda it was "so wer killing our neighbors and their families, cool!"

@dontfindmeples No. You are wrong. The situations are completely different whether you acknowledge it or not.

@@purplepurple8179 If they're different why are they both labelled as genocides? Oh, because genocide is genocide.

They mobilised everyone of the race to perform the genocide, I doubt anyone can do anything. You send ground troops and they risk being overwhelmed and murdered, you bomb the Hutu villages and they call it crime against humanity. You can’t blame the world for inaction for something African tribal mindsets have been doing to each other for thousands of years

Tell your friend thank you, truly.

I'm from Saskatchewan. I served in the RCR. As you undoubtedly know, Another Tragedy was the Airborne torturing a young Somali to death. This was a Direct! Result of their CO essentially putting a bounty on the heads of any Somali civilians caught on His base! Only 3 enlisted men were punished. The End.

@@fangslaughter1198 I don’t know what the punishment was, but at least there was one. On the French side no one gets punished. To illustrate, below is a quote from a 2005 book (pp. 207-208) by an author named Pean, who was decorated by French president François Hollande for his writings on French politics: “At the end of 1992, beginning of 1993, a section of the 21st RIMa [a regiment of French Marines], based in Fréjus [France] was assigned to guard the airport [at Kigali, Rwanda, under the genocidal regime which they were assisting]. One night part of the section left on a spree with *a military truck* to go to a nightclub called Kigali Night [owned by the son of Rwanda’s president]. Upon exiting the club, the soldiers forced a Rwandan woman *into the truck.* Two of them raped her and then "worked" her genital organs *with bayonets* while the other soldiers refrained from intervening. Then *they dumped her naked on the side of the road.* The girl was taken to Kigali hospital. On the admission log, it was reportedly stated: _"Raped by French soldiers.”_ Even before word spread about the incident, two provosts [i.e. military police] took up the matter and *notified both* Lieutenant-Colonel Boré, second-in-command for the 21st RIMa, and Colonel Robardey, Deputy Defense Attaché [at the French embassy in Kigali]. At this stage the provosts were encouraged to continue their investigation. These two military police officers did indeed continue their investigations. They received the complaint from the victim who also requested *compensation* (which she obtained), and took into custody the perpetrators and their accomplices. Then, they contacted the prosecutor at the trial court in Draguignan [France]. The assistant prosecutor there told one of the provosts that the soldiers weren’t on duty when they committed the crime and therefore he would not take the case. He advised the French military police officer to take the case to a local court in Rwanda. The officer argued to the French prosecutor that *the prisons in Kigali were not good* ... Eventually, the file was indeed sent to Draguignan. But the case has been buried ... At the time of my book going to press, I have not discovered the details and mechanisms of how *the case was made to disappear.* Some [French] generals have pointed to François Léotard as the ultimate person responsible for *burying the case.* At the time he was the Mayor of Fréjus, and later became the French Minister of Defense. He reacted very strongly when I brought up the facts to him: “I was never informed of this horrible crime. I hope that the criminals will be prosecuted and I encourage you to continue your investigation. We need to know who covered up this crime. I am appalled at what you are telling me. Keep me informed." A quarter of an hour later, François Léotard called me back after coming into contact with François Lépine, who was then his chief of staff. Lépine had just told him that he had no recollection of the case either. General Philippe Mansuy, who was then chief of staff to Admiral Lanxade, himself chief of the general staff for the French armed forces, had heard about the case, but had not dealt with it. “Militarily, it did have consequences. There was an investigation and some sanctions. In terms of military ethics, it could not be allowed to pass ..." Captain Filipi, the deputy chief officer of the 21st RIMa corps, was clearly not aware of this case. After some research, he told me that the regiment kept its records for only ten years and was therefore *unable to tell* me what penalties had been imposed.” [In the aftermath of the assault, French military officers together with the Rwandan police (exclusively Hutu) found the victim (who was Tutsi) in a hospital where she lay agonizing. They told her never to talk about the incident. In return they gave her 5K Rwandan francs, the equivalent of $20. That was the *“compensation”.* They also told her to leave the city and warned her not to come back. She was taken back to her rural village where she died of her wounds.]

@@hkchan1339 you gas the regions with canabinoid 1 which was developed by the usa army in the 60-70s. It is a chemical close to thc but 1000x as strong but also still safe compared to most fake weed today. Make the people unable to move in a coordinated fashion. Make people have spontaneous feelings of connection. Screw with their emotions and maybe cause some to turn against their leaders

Does he really need to by now?

@@Arkanadra I never said he did. No one said he did. Just appreciate that, unlike his other channels, he doesn't do that with this subject matter...

I agree. It lets the story sink in.

Sparing himself the old "I won't ask whether you enjoyed this video..." from his other channels simply because it would always apply on this channel... Good move

@@Arkanadra of course not. We are beholden to him like the Disciples were to Christ. Where he goes, we follow. Prague

Jesus Christ I'm so sorry your friend went through all that no 5 year old should have to be forced to witness that and those Boys were fucking ignorant and nimrods I hope she didn't let their stupidity affect her. How is she now if u don't mind me politely asking?

🧢

Thank you. We need to hear these things... and thank you for being such a good friend to her

Your friend is definetly a brave and a beautiful person

That teacher is properly useless and a disgrace to his profession.

That's how people tend to rationalize mass hysteria. All genocides are basically conducted by population en-masse,everyone is ought to blame for it in some way or the other.

hate is the devil that possessed them. hatred, scaffolded by dehumanizing propaganda from some very committed ethnonationalist organizations.

@@dutt_arka agreed. in countries that commit wholesale genocide, there are hardly innocents among the perpetrators. to be able to commit such violence, it must be first normalized, which requires the consent of the people or main ethnic/religious group in power

If he admitted the truth, that he was responsible for his choices and actions, he'd probably never be able to look at himself in the mirror ever again.

Many prominent Nazi members responsible for the Holocaust and the scourging of Eastern Europe claimed "they were under orders". Makes you wonder which is actually worse out of the two.

The Unvaccinated

@@ralfrudiger7276The Vaccinated

@@ADavid42 No, you probably life in Florida, go visit Germany and you know what I mean

@@ralfrudiger7276 America, LoL

I am really astonished by how easy people are hooked to hating a group of people. In my home country (I am happy I do not live there anymore) it is the gypsy minority that is targeted (nowadays alongside refugees). Based on statistics, every person belonging to the group is immediately judged. No one attempts to look at the action of each individual separately. Judging a group instead of each individual separately is way easier, but it is not something that should be done by any human that consider themselves part of the developed world.

Yes Ben Shapiro and the likes shouldn't make huge deals about lets say CRT

@Gwyn and Gold Except it isn't and never has been taught outside of law school and certain graduate studies.

@@IanAlcorn Laudin County seems to prove you wrong

I agree Fox "news" has been stoking the flames of hatred for far too long now.

@@paulthepainter2366 are you joking?? CRT is perpetrating said hatred. The goal is to care less about race, not focus on it

can you explain the meaning of the quote? (sorry english is not my first language and i don't understand all the nuances).

@@brunettesuspecte African nations who ask for military assistance have a reputation for paying in diamonds rather than hard currency bc it's more valuable to them. Versus any number of the European conflicts retaining active duty or PMCs funnel millions in cash. I interpreted it was his way of saying "war never changes"

I couldn't even live on after something like that. The survivors of such events are the bravest people on earth.

It's forbidden to use those ethnic words Wikepedia says. "Divisionism" is a crime.

People always want to ignore situations like this all over Africa, where black people were extremely racist, to other black people. But hey, it's only white people that are racist...

​@MrSpectre287 don't know.

@@MrSpectre287 it’s worked in Germany so far

​@@fort809 That shit didn't work in India. Dalit folks are still oppressed, even after their names changed from Shudra, to Harijan, then to Dalit (Dalit means crushed)

It’s the same feeling many Americans have walking the streets of the inner city, where police homicide clearance rates are abysmally low.

I get the same feeling when I'm around older Australians... who were more or less involved or atleast witnesses to the Indigenous Australian Genocide.

I’m thinking exactly this. Many of the offenders of this genocide are still alive. So many feelings and questions regarding that

@@mrebbesen there is always 2 sides in a story, I encourage you to educate yourself about this topic, nobody is an angel in that conflict, there might be( the hutu and tutsi civilians who were not involved in politics). The genocide was preventable through negotiations and but they choose violence

Many of the perps are shielded against court trial by Western governments. Detailed in this article: _"Five genocide suspects who sought refuge in UK run up £5m legal aid bill"._

😪 I remember this unfolding as a 5 yo and being shocked by what I saw and heard on the news. It has stuck with me to this day and it completely breaks my heart to think about all those poor innocent people who were so brutally murdered on all sides😪😪😪

The most horrifying thing I have ever seen was a body with its head separated at a place called dinsoor in south Somalia. A it was so bad that a pregnant woman fainted and miscarried. The man was killed by an alshabab commander because he refused to marry off his daughter to one of them. 2006 to 2013 was hell on earth in rural south Somalia.

you have your own problem in finland with muslims worrie about yourself

@@whitedom2041 wtf

@@BattleMage52 no my cousin did from 6 years old until 11

It’s terrible whites did this to them

I am glad they could find a new life here in Canada. Makes me proud that my country at least somewhat provides shelter and safety to those from terrible places and circumstances

People there who technically live in the same country, but are in a different tribe and your tribe is at war with them and you are in a bad mood, hey, why not?

Spoke to a Rwandan Canadian . The guilt, sad look and repent in his face when I asked about genocide is very moving. He said " everyone was involved, we just couldn't help it"

Many of the people you met wielded those very machetes

@@elcapitan9141 highly unlikely, if she’s working in a higher end job because the people who carried out the killing were mostly uneducated and the educated elites who participated were involved in the organization and the organizers never never survived the law. the justice focused on the organizers

@@elcapitan9141tHeY wErE jUsT fOlLoWiNg OrDeRs

People always want to ignore situations like this all over Africa, where black people were extremely racist, to other black people. But hey, it's only white people that are racist...

Did you ask them the memorials to Hutu victims of the RPF? Oops, they don't matter because their noses were not pointy enough.

sorry to hear about your aunt felicia

Is the discrimination against Tutsis still strong?

discrimination is punishable by the law people see themselves as Rwandans now the older generation still is suffering from PTSD they also somehow don't like eachother lowkey but nothing serious to cause a problem a larger population of the new generation don't like to be called tutsis or hutus so everyone is one and just want to work live their lives in peace ​@@eho6380

Bosnia and Chechnya happened because of Russia. Russia is a cancer on humanity

@@lolmao500 am not a pro USSR, but many of the older generation blame Gorbachev for the current state of affairs of many or all of the former soviet nations. Also, many of those nations still want to reform USSR to thus day.

It mirrored the 20's in that way. The privileged classes enjoyed unprecedented success while the rest struggled and resentment bubbled below the surface. It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times. To call either period the "calm before the storm" would be misleading. The storm had already broken, just not for everyone.

@Tony Wagoner it for sure was genocide

@Tony Wagoner maybe Tsarist Russia's fault, back in the Balkan wars... but yes, certainly not the fault of the USSR... I think it is very close to if not an outright genocide in places, but, within what was a huge violent war....

Basically, because of UN's orders that were forbiding any kind of direct intervention, the peace keepers under Dallaire's commandment ended up being passive spectators of this genocide. I'm a Québécois and I dated a girl that fled Ruwanda to escape the genocide (don't remember if she was hutu or tutsi) and how many times she told me what she'd witness.....I really dunno how she kept her sanity though.....This brought me to read J'ai serré la main du Diable (shake hands with the Devil) by Dallaire and I just read it once and it took me forever to get to the end even if I'm a fast reader because this book was simply too hard to read with all the accounts of rapes and murders and how useless Dallaire felt being the witness of this nighmare that occured 24/7. For 100 days.

I've read both his books and he was the commencement speaker at my high school graduation assembly before the actual ceremony for our parents. Got the chance to meet him and shake his hand and speak with him for a few minutes. Lovely man who clearly tried his best but he made it clear that the Genocide was a part of his career he regrets as try as he might he couldn't stop the killing

generals obey orders commanders do what needs done and to hell with the orders!! clearly he's a general and not a commander!!

@@keithmoore5306 that's not how it works in reality. You disobey an order at his rank the best you get is to be replaced in the field but more likely get "allowed" to resign. Let alone the fact that without support he'd have just got his men killed and made the situation worse for everyone involved.

@@keithmoore5306 That’s not how it works buddy. Without authorisation any military action will be considered as insubordination, treason or as a war crime. Don’t disrespect every single soldier in that situation and I advise you not to repeat that statement in a face-to-face conversation.

That movie told you. "hey, stay out of this African mess white boy" 😂

Your high school sounds like mine. We were assigned to read the book "Animal Farm" and were given a very ind-depth worksheet about it, asking us to give historical analysis, though we were a class of kids who had never heard the name Stalin in our lives. We were not even informed the book had anything to do with the USSR!

I hope you are well. peace

Go back

I look at my neighbors that poisoned the stray I was feeding because they didn't like cats and think "Yeah, makes sense to me."

@ see... The raw love and compassion it takes for a person to feed a stray cat and have real feelings for that animal are so starkly contrasted by people who would kill that cat, just because. Humans are capable of so much... Good or bad.

@@danelynch7171 I'd never harm an animal, hell I even escort flies safely outside. But people? I don't have the same level of empathy. I understand what happened on a visceral level because given the opportunity to avenge that cat - I can't say 100% I wouldn't do it. People are the worst thing on this planet, I am not excluded.

@ eh... People are also some of the best things on this planet.. Do you think animals have the same capacity for empathy as humans? Do you think animals have the ability to love and cherish each other the way we as humans do?

@@danelynch7171 Having been around dogs and rabbits all my life I can say with absolute certainty they have more empathy. A couple of months back I had a migraine from hell, and my bunny jumps on the couch and starts licking my forhead then nuzzles up beside me. She knew I was in pain and attempted to help. When I had my last dog, he didn't quite understand the concept of me pointing at something, everytime I pointed my finger he would lick it because he thought I hurt it. If you truly spend time with animals you'll end up being horrified by humanity treats them.

30 years before your time fellow British were just as appalled by this same genocide. “A Member of Parliament for north Devon in the British House of Commons once got to his feet to ask the UK Foreign Minister *on an urgent issue.* ‘Would he instruct the British delegation at the United Nations to raise immediately, in the Security Council, as a threat to peace, the killing of members of the Tutsi Tribe by the Rwanda Republican Government, as a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of *the Crime of Genocide…* does the Honourable Gentleman not feel that Her Majesty’s Government should be doing more to stir the conscience of the world against these barbaric acts?’ The genocide was also condemned by the English philosopher and historian Bertrand Russell who called it *‘the most horrible and systematic human massacre we have had occasion to witness* since the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis.’ All this was in December 1963.” [A. Wallis 2017] But nothing was ever done. It was all swept under the proverbial carpet, and the systematic murders were allowed to continue. Today, people should be shocked that the government in England still insists on protecting genocide suspects from being taken to court, as detailed in this article: _"Five genocide suspects who sought refuge in UK run up £5m legal aid bill"._

@@rutonde wait I’m confused. You said that people were calling the government to task about the crimes in 1963 but it happened in 94 no? Was their another Genocide At that time?

@@kaeade4290 Yes there was. The genocide era in Rwanda lasted several decades from 1959 to 1994. The 1963-1964 episode was widely reported in the news, for example in this article dated Feb 11th, 1964: The Geneva Journal (Switzerland) *Genocide in Africa* (From our correspondent in London) An *organized attempt at total extermination, A TRUE GENOCIDE,* is systematically ongoing against the 250,000 members of the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda. The figure of 30,000 dead first cited was perhaps exaggerated. That of 15,000, given by the Prime Minister of Burundi, Mr. Ngendandumwe, upon his arrival in Nairobi on February 4, is around ten thousand lower than those *[i.e. 25,000]* reported by missionaries and other Europeans residing in the tiny republic, which has about 2,500,000 inhabitants. Whatever it really is, one shudders at the thought that no one is doing anything from the outside to put an end to this dreadful butchery, and that international opinion is not awake to the situation. The Hutus *decimate entire families, kill men, women and children without discrimination. They mutilate their victims and often they throw their corpses into the Rusizi river, blocking it in places. The massacres continue, according to Christian missionaries, at the average of a thousand a day.* Appeals have been made to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and to the governments of Tanganyika and Uganda, but no effective intervention has taken place. President Gregoire Kayibanda and his Hutus, blinded by hatred, appear *determined to annihilate the entire Tutsi tribe.* The two or three British newspapers which took the trouble to follow the unfolding of the terrible tragedy suggest a possible solution. In addition to an investigation that could be carried out by the Red Cross, they believe that the United Nations should act urgently to obtain either the evacuation of the Tutsi population to neighboring countries, or the creation, under United Nations protection, of a Tutsi reservation in Rwanda. Either way, close international surveillance would be necessary to prevent Kayibanda and the Hutus from continuing their horrific crimes.

@@lh1822 No, boy soldier means I joined the British Army when I was 17.

Hope it was worth minimum wage

Opression leads to hate, yes.

So sorry. Hope you find peace

Massive credit to Fasih, the editor for Into the Shadows for that. I got the pilot back from him, and was like "Hey, I think you left a bit in at the end." He never removed it. Just left it there. He was right. What a legend.

@@IntotheShadows Maybe you have done it on some of your channels, but there are too many to know.. Have you introduced your whole team somewhere?

It’s really the perfect way to end something like this....because what is really left to say?

@@IntotheShadows Simon, you have to do a Biographics about Gen. Romeo Dallaire, it would be a fitting follow up to this

I do wonder how much of this is affecting Simon, this and his Casual Criminalist show... Might need to balance this with a - how humans can be good to one another channel

@Gwyn and Gold Is it, though? Gangs aren't known for their lack of efficency xD

Out of curiosity, I often see people chastising the UN, what would you have them do? I'm not trying to be rude, I genuinely want to know what they could do without resorting to killing. Unless you think just outright killing the perpetrators is the right course of action, which I'm no inherently against but I image that would have an absolute ton of blowback.

@Gwyn and Gold they're more like a gang from a musical. They have a lot to say but we all know they aren't throwing any real punches.

@Gwyn and Gold Nato is a military gang, UN is more like the bullies, the school director told to do the peacekeeping on the play yard as a punishment.

@@R3demptionzz The man who represented the Czech Republic at the UN provided a vivid answer to your question even as the events were occurring in 1994: “My delegation is troubled that it has taken so long for the Secretary General [i.e. Top UN boss] to use this description [i.e. genocide against the Tutsi population] in his reports on which the Security Council bases its work *so heavily.* We are equally confused that even before the outbreak of the holocaust on April 6 [1994], UNAMIR and its representatives _had been aware_ for example of inflammatory broadcasts of the local radio, of suspicious movements of armed groups, of an inflow of arms into Rwanda. My delegation feels that if these facts had been forcefully communicated to the Security Council as soon as the Secretary became aware of them, we might have been a step further by today.”

You did the right thing. If you want to broach the subject just simply ask them "Hey, are you doing OK? I just watched a video that went fairly in depth on the Rwandan Genocide and I know you're originally from there. I'm not prying. I just wanted to make sure you're ok."

@A Huddleston You don’t always know who you’re dealing with. Just plainly keep in mind that while the victims were from Rwanda, so were the rapists and mass murderers. To complicate things further, those criminals do have children and relatives. Even if the latter are innocent of any crimes themselves, they may nonetheless sympathize and support their criminal parents or relatives. Caution is necessary.

you could just ask, the person you are asking has the rights to say "no"

well he is most likely no tutsi

I met two people from there but they completely justified it. Basically they said this happened throughout all human history and often times is all that can be done to advance a society quicker, wich then saves people more in the long run (basically that some ends justify the means), and that us westerners have always done this but have a problem with it now because is them doing it, not us; and for us to search how well Rwanda is in comparison with other African nations if we don’t believe…

Got fixed by RDF and Kagame. Clean safe country now. Can’t say the same for Somalia

africa is the worst continent for almost every possible classification, so it make sense. north africa would have been ok but then islam arrived.

@@Tonyx.yt. Latin America is more violent than Africa. North Western and central Africa normally have more violent conflicts compared to east Africa. Somalia is in the Horn of Africa while East Africa is Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Sudan, Burundi. East Africa in general is much safer than other regions of Africa.

@@markm2092 Latin America has more violence due to the drug trade, since is a major producer and close to the major markets, but normally that's the deal, if you stay out of production, distribution and or commercialization of drugs then you are ok in most latin countries, i.e Argentina, Perú, Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, etc. There are some countries that ARE really dangerous but it's mostly Honduras, El Salvador in central America, but for the most part latin america is pretty functional as societies go, on the other hand some African countries are a living hell to this day, I don't think there's a real comparison between the continents, because circumstances and living standards, culture and so on are so different. Africa is a huge place, 40 some countries and lots of them are really different from each other

@@TheWallki I understand what you’re saying but I was commenting to tony who said east Africa is most dangerous place to be deployed which isn’t true. He probably meant Horn of Africa as in Somalia. Because east Africa is pretty safe.

That's really interesting. Does that mean the horrors of the genocide that happened in your country has been forgotten by the next (your) generation?

@@WaddedBliss That’s a great question. But difficult and almost impossible to answer for myself since my experience itself is different than most kids growing up in Rwanda or even other refugees. We left Rwanda when I was 9 months old and fled to Uganda where my sister was born. We moved again to Kenya where I grew up until 2004 when we came to America. But even while in Kenya, we were always blessed to be associated with the UNICEF through my father and his work so we had access to opportunities many refugees didn’t. Even as we left Kenya, there were jealous neighbors we were wary of that were killing my mom’s chickens out of spite lol seems like we’ve been running my whole life. Education was always a huge part of my life so I only learned english(and some french) and though it was easy assimilating into American culture once we got here in 04, I lost all real connections to Rwanda besides my parents speaking our language at home and family members popping up once in awhile. To this day I still can’t speak Kinyarwanda even though I understand it. My mom hates when I reply to her in English but it’s really her fault! Lol sorry for the tangents

@@WaddedBliss But then again, with access to the internet and our older generation; we have always been and will always be aware somewhat of the tragedies. My mom still has PTSD from those times so it’s not something I bring up often unless she does you know. I kinda don’t even like hearing the stories because she’s so numb to the senseless loss of life she witnessed and along with other things. Soon as she got here she started up a refugee Women organization called Women for Women coalition as her way of coping for years.

Thanks so much for your posts.

@@WaddedBliss hahaha thank you for your geniune interest and inquiry!

I think Thoughty2 could pull it off if he ever franchised. He certainly covers a broad enough range of subjects currently to compete with Simon.

wtf are you even speaking?

Admittedly, I'm not a fan of the conversational commentary Simon inserts into his Brain Blaze videos, because they make the video longer and make me feel like I'm getting the info from my ADHD brother, but I know everyone has their own style of preference.

I remember watching it on the news as a kid. However the UN is a complete joke, not only here, the actually FAILED with all the missions they have been given. Couple of years back a few military here in the Netherlands were charged because of their participation in the UN during their Serbia failure and genocide.... ironically western politicians now want the UN to take over ALL governments in the world, to be a one world government.... a group of people that have a history of incompetence all the way to their foundation.... what possibly could go wrong....

The US is not the world police, we simply can’t be and stay economically stable, the UN is supposed to be in that role, that’s why the UN was created.

@@Master_Yoda1990 And yet the US has out-sized influence in the UN. Much of the reason the UN couldn't be more effective in Rwanda was because the US kept voting against it.

@@Master_Yoda1990 Perhaps not the best argument, given the US will go against what you said whenever it chooses. To say you are inconsistent would sum it up nicely, especially as US action is always linked to US enrichment, be it political power or resources, no matter which wankers are in charge.

@@QBCPerdition I think that also goes along with my complaint of US should not be the world police

@@owenshebbeare2999 that maybe the goal, but rarely the outcome on long drawn out wars, look at Vietnam, the country definitely wasn’t enriched in that conflict, same with the 20 years in Afghanistan.

There is nothing like this going on in either of the current conflicts you mentioned.

​@@valerierodger there's a current genocide of Ukrainians nation by russian invaders. Difference is that there is nothing in common between humans and an orc.

Still got a long ways to go before we stop justifying the killing of babies as women's rights. Cannibalism is at least more generally frowned on so that's progress.

And the US activly helped them by making list

@@tuehojbjerg969 True that. And they basically swoop in by the time Suharto rose to power.

Keep in mind more than a few Republican politicians in the US are calling on their followers to kill their neighbors if their neighbors are suspected of being Democrats.

@Gwyn and Gold Communists won WWII and don't you forget it.

@@tuehojbjerg969 US tech companies are always happy to lend a hand, like Google in China or IBM in Germany in the 1930s/40s

Like everyone's saying- read Shake Hands With the Devil by General Dallaire. There's also a documentary and a feature film. They're not easy watches, though.

@@ShelleyScreen Damn.

You rarely learn about atrocities you do or that are close to you... especially if you have close political ties.

Black lady ? Wow she has a name show some respect .

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@@y2j1490yahoo you have to keep in mind that Rosa was in American history and she was living in South Africa… America already does a bad job at teaching American history of black ppl as well let alone how much was taught in another country

@@TheKutie36 my girl is black and she disagrees. Black history is taught just as bad a white history in America.

Yes, it is. I almost couldn't watch it all the way through, it was so painful. Another film that gets, I feel, not enough notice, is 'Beyond the Gates', with John Hurt. I've also seen two documentaries that I felt were very good: 'The Triumph of Evil', and 'Ghosts of Rwanda' - both shown on PBS.

The Hotel owner (Hotel Rwanda) has just recently been sent to prison for life for his part in the genocide, don't believe Hollywood.

@@MrTaytersDeep What did he do?

@@MrTaytersDeep Can you just answer the question?

Robbed the people that stayed there to enter the hotel, then told the Mutu militia which rooms the Tutsi civilians were in so they could drag them out into the yard and hack them to death, especially if they didn't have any money left!

:hugs: Watching the movie about it was enough for me. I will never forget. As a Canadian, some aspects of his story were close enough to me to impress the lesson that must never be forgotten : that anyone of us can get caught up in such atrocities... and that they can - and will - happen again. Anytime, anywhere. :more hugs:

I have this book.. not picked it up yet, knowing this will be a problem

I feel bad for him. He was one of the only people who TRIED to do something, but did not have the resources to do much. And he’s suffered from PTSD and guilt ever since.

Same here. I tried to read it a 2nd time, many years after reading it for the first time. I couldn't do it. When I first read it, it took me forever to finish it even if I'm a fast reader. I could only read 10-15 pages at the time as it was making me cry. A close friend of mine back then almost beg me to stop reading it because it was making me feel miserable

@@michaelsinger4638 Gen. Dallaire is estimated to have saved 30 000 people during those horrific 100 days. 30K (directly or indirectly, for ex. by inspiring the Ghana contingent to stand fast). He's founded an important org against child soldiering. He is one of the very few heroes of that conflict.

Jeezuz. 😨

You really can't understand?

It is humanity at its worst.

Sure you can! You're just as evil! You just don't acknowledge it.

look at what happened to native Americans by whites you should know your history on the continent well enough that the evil is in you.

Umm really?...Colonialism? Genociding of Native tribes all over the planet? The Nazi Holocaust alone killed at least 6 times more people than the Rwandan genocide.

My uncle was in the US Marines at the time I asked him the same question, he said "Lack of political willpower"

New Zealand's population was 3.6 million in 1994 while Rwanda's was 5.9 million. Both are tiny countries.

@@samaalethespacepirate8342 I've obviously misremembered this entirely. My Dad wouldn't have got the populations wrong like that. Now I am left to wonder what catastrophe event he was talking about. God knows there are plenty of candidates.

NZ could have sent an Infantry Battalion Group and ENDED the Genocide within two weeks of arriving. NZ was the Chair of the UN Security Coucil at the time and pushed for military intervention but could not get the other members to even agree that it was a Genocide. The actual word was never used. Too scary. NZ did what it could and I'm sure the troops would have cleared it all up in no time but politicians always get in the way. Most of the murders were carried out by civilian militias only armed with machetes. 1,000 Kiwi soldiers would have sorted them out real quick. A very shameful failure by the UN as a whole but it wasn't NZ's fault.

@@JohnBeebe When will Politicians soon understand that putting their dicks in military operations is a surefire way to fuck things up for everyone?

Unfortunately, it's pretty standard for historical events. Humans been doing this shit to each other for as far back as we can see... This is just another horrific bump on a long, bumpy road.

I went to school with a tusty, he barely grew up outside the violence but he tells me about how it was common to see mutilated bodies, mobs violence and lynchings

@@bbgamegodpnw Tutsi

Animals kill, torture, and rape each other, but when Homo Sapiens does it, it reminds people that we are just animals.

Umm really?...Colonialism? Genociding of Native tribes all over the planet? The Nazi Holocaust alone killed at least 6 times more people than the Rwandan genocide are you kidding?

Glad she survived.

Damn

WW2 really isn't long ago at all is the thing.

It doesn't fit in many people's mindset so it's not particularly talked about. It's the same for Japan's warcrimes which are often overlooked by Japan itself, uncritical weebs and people that think only white people are capable of horrible warcrimes. If it was whites Vs blacks in Rwanda you can be sure it would be brought up twice a week on twitter.

​@@ArchonCommando But the whites were the root cause of the problem. The Belgians causing segregation between the Hutus and Tutsis.

​@@ArchonCommando Not one race is evil but the entire human race is evil

When It happened I was 4 years old as well. The difference is, I was running and hiding for my life. I was Young but I still have some very vivid disturbing memories,pstd. I stopped sleep walking around 14 years.

In California atleast in the Bay Area, part of the curriculum for world history(sophomore year) is learning about the Rwandan genocide, followed up by watching “Hotel Rwanda”…it was disturbing but the class was all glad we learned about it

That’s true. The colonizers had done the same even before the specific events you mention and continued the same way afterwards. From the historian Stefaan Minnaert (6 September 2013): “Following the First World War, Rwanda had just passed from German occupation to Belgian occupation. The population has suffered terribly from looting and the requisitioning of labour, food and firewood. The economy came out of it completely deregulated. This has had implications for public health. The weakened population was decimated by *the famine of 1916 to 1917* and by a series of diseases. Musinga (c.1882-1944) himself narrowly escaped the *death* penalty. In March 1917, *the Belgians* put him in *prison* for treason. Accused of collaborating with the Germans, *he risked being hanged.* Never before had a King been humiliated in this way by foreigners! Musinga's *detention* was short-lived, as without him the country would be ungovernable.” Like I said, after they had murdered King Mutara, they did to his successor what they had done to his predecessor: They forcibly exiled King Kigeli in 1960 as part of their plan to install their local genocidal subordinates in power. There’s a video on y-tube where Kigeli explains how they went about it.

or at least prevent future events from escalating too much

To be fair, knowing about the nazis didn't really stop the genocide in Rwanda. The same thing will happen eventually somewhere else regardless of what we should already know. Knowing is just an excuse to not do anything. You're just simply hoping that it won't happen again.

​@@Wheres_my_Dragonator It is the fact that because some atrocity is happening halfway across the world the impact is only sliver deep on people's psyche. Unless it is literally happening in peoples own backyard,.most people don't care. How many people have ever heard of or know about the genocide against the Rohingya people in Myanmar in 2017 that is even now still ongoing? Not enough people know or even care which is why I have no faith in the human race as a whole, regardless of race.

And prevent events like this happening in the future

​@@Wheres_my_Dragonator Now we have the Internet to help educate us. Specially young people.

Lmao that's how you know you are sheltered from the world , what made you think so naivety? Honestly how I'm curious to how such childish gullible mindset occur , what's next you gonna be surprised when ppl pass away due to old age ?

@kingtachalla6181 Well, I was actually a child, so...

@@ericthompson3982 I was a child too and I knew the world wasn't sunshine and rainbows, sheltered is what you were

@@kingtachalla6181 I'm not real sure why you feel like attacking me for feeling horrified about something horrible when I was raised to believe that it's our job in this world to leave it better than we found it, but ok. Hope you're doing well.

@jerrylouiswiththethickness6403 And bless you. I hope you live a life of peace.

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Aussies actually helped? That's great, I've read most of UN was completely useless... I remember a Ukrainian unit stood ground and saved a Bosnian village from joining another mass grave despite Serb threats. Big contrast with Netherland troops who stood outside of Srebrenica.

And we always repeat the same mistakes

"Deployed to stand down" sums it perfectly.

Kinda reminds me of Mogadishu. When U.S. soldiers were overseeing a U.N. relief effort local militias occupied the food storages and massacred any civilians who tried to get at the food that was brought for them. The Soldiers observing were told not to do anything, as rules of engagement stated that they cant fire on them unless they themselves were being shot at. One of the things i hate the most is the bureaucracy that stagnates any effort to actually make a difference. Kind of disgusting when you think about soldiers being told not to do their job when literally witnessing inhumanity in its most primal form.

Why didn't you intervene anyway? I bet those who ordered you to stand down were 3000 miles away, sipping lattes in Washington DC. I would have stopped the killings and said if you think protecting innocent civilians is a crime,arrest me.

@@thechosenone1533 I'm going to invoke the right to not self incriminate here and just go "To the best extend of my knowledge I have never wilfully disregarded a direct order". Balkan was a "funny" place. There was no real clear cut "good vs evil". There was only "evil vs just as evil and nobody agrees on when, why or where it all stared". Combatants were not necessarily wearing uniforms. The lines between military, militia and mafia were in constant flux. Even to those who were supposed to decisively be one or the other. However, the rules of engagement were screamingly simple for UN forces: "You may fire only when fired directly upon. And you must cease fire at the first sign of surrender or retreat." So I ever only discharged my weapon when I was *under the impression* that the muzzle blasts were facing me directly. But in the heat of battle it can be hard to tell, you know... The rules of engagement were changed by NATO under the KFOR directive. That was my second tour. And I only signed up precisely because of the change. The new rules were equally simple: "If you see someone with guns shooting at someone without guns, fire at will. If you're being fired upon, neutralize target".... So I went back and picked up the pieces of my soul I had left behind. I may also have cancelled a few life subscriptions in the process. But in the heat of battle it can be hard to tell, you know... But just so we're clear on the legalities of what you're suggesting: When in service killing without orders is, under Martial law, homicide of the first degree. That is life in prison or the death penalty depending on state/country. So it boils down to "their life or mine" but in a sickeningly reversed fashion in this particular situation. Talk is cheap, and anyone can say what you just said. In fact many have. And I'll believe you when you've had your finger on the trigger while you had to make that particular judgement call. But not a second sooner. Sorry... but sometimes it do be like that. And just for the record (not that it's important to the topic at all): I'm not an American. I'm Danish.

Knowing they wouldn't get resupplied... taking a stand on ones own initiative would be signing a death sentence for themselves and the rest of the mission. There's only so many bullets they had at their disposal and not everyone has the courage to make that decision.

Your brother couldn’t have done anything about it or he would have been killed. The paramilitaries in Bosnia were far more numerous than UN peacekeepers and well trained having all completed a year of National service. They were not clowns with machetes like in Rwanda.

@@stefan2serb I am aware of that but that just proves my point that the UN is useless, they could have sent more troops, 193 countries are members of the UN... Which means, just like nearly all of their missions, this was just virtue signalling and sacrificing the (mental) well being of their soldiers... So, yeah, again, disgusting in my opinion.

i feel the same about the dishonesty. i also feel its a lot easier to deploiy and supply un troops in europe then it is in east/central africa. heck even the tunesian troops that were rwanda would've been faster deployed in croatia then in rwanda just from an infrastructure point of view.

Minor correction: The problem with depleted uranium munitions isn't radiation, it's heavy metal poisoning. Which doesn't really make much difference to the person dying from it, though.

Ukrainian peacekeepers had their first UN mission in Yugoslavia. The village of Zepa. Serbs attacked Ukrainians and threatened to kill everyone if they keep defending the village. Our guys stood their ground. Later, quote "Unlike in Srebrenica, a widespread slaughter of Bosniak men did not occur, as most Bosniak males had fled the enclave by the time Bosnian Serb forces arrived." Why? BECUASE WE ARE UKRAINIANS, THE ONLY ONES IN EUROPE WHO FIGHT AND RESIST WHEN THE USELESS WEST ASSISTS RUSSIANS AND SERBS WITH THEIR WAR CRIMES.

I know what you mean. Others started with segregation and a "veil" of control, whereas this was just like, all out guns blazing.

@@Stopthisrightnow560 Yeah. Straight out of a horror movie/war movie cross-over. Except in this case, very real.

Thanks for mentioning this. I was going to write about it too. The collapse of Zaire was precipitated by the RPF and it became an African world war basically which nobody ever talks about. They went to hunt down the genocidaires and got involved in carving up Zaire for profit along with every other African country with any power. It lead to millions of deaths. The other thing is not emphasised is that the RPF was seen by the French as an Anglophone armed group and just like in the American Revolution anything that would stick a finger up at the English the French government to this very day would be happy to be involved in. It's utterly bizarre to let bring in your small contingent of soldiers to protect the genocidaires from the beginning and then when they were defeated to fly them to shelter in Paris for decades afterwards knowing full well what these monsters did. But the French can afford to feel powerful by sending a few thousand soldiers into their former African colonies to exert influence. It also shows how a small Western force can have a profoundly disproportionate effect in Africa when it suits their interests. I believe a small force could've shut it down but it was up to the RPF to do it.

It did reduce the FDLR in size and intensity of attacks. The RPF wiped out more than half of the rebels during the 2 Congo wars killing millions of Congolese and Refugees in the process as FDLR rebels used civilians as shields. In fact, most international organizations say that currently, FDLR has just a couple of thousand soldiers compared to the force that left Rwanda in the 1990s. Some even say there is no FDLR and Kagame is using that excuse to attack Congo and steal their minerals, make no mistake, RPF have dealt with the issue of FDLR on a very large scale and the threat is not as it was in the 1990s, some could argue there is no threat at all

Congo's problems existed way before Rwanda happened.

2/3 is horrifingly close

How would you know? Most of history is unrecorded especially in Africa. Genocide one way or other happens all over in Africa. European accounts in South Africa that when they were attacked by the locals they would kill everyone women and children. A famous tribal chief Shaka Zulu killed preganant women in his tribe because he was upset his mother died.

@@alastair9446 Isn't history known and recountable events, not unknown (prehistory)?

@@alastair9446 i agree! Most accounts we have from ancient or medieval campaigns of conquest suggest widespread genocidal tendencies. See the mongols in hungary/russia; romans in Gaul; chinese while conquering China etc.

@@ProudRegressive Well if you kill everyone so no one can tell the tale is that still history? On a serious note the definition I get is "the study of past events, particularly in human affairs". Says nothing about being recorded, just study of the event. So if you can dig up dead bones or look at DNA to get the story I guess it still counts as history.

Key takeaway; When white people are in charge things are more peaceful, soon as white people leave chaos ensues. See; Rhodesia, and South Africa for examples.

@@sovkhan4359Fun Fact: If I shake a sick man’s hand tomorrow, the day after I can get sick It’s almost like the past shapes the present or something…

@@sideshow4417”more peaceful” Rwanda Post Genocide has been ranked one of the most peaceful nations on earth, did they suddenly get colonized again without anyone knowing?

Hello!!!! I just said this earlier. Folks brush over it. It was by designed. Just like in western (house nga and field nga) it’s by design still to this day

_“There was a great number of Hutus within the educated elite and even within the catholic clergy.”_ And all of them had well-paid jobs within the colonial regime. Chief among them was Kayibanda, who had been the national superintendent of Catholic education, by far the largest school system in the country. After that he was sent to Belgium, all expenses paid, to learn the news media business. A few months later he was shipped back to Rwanda and immediately appointed editor-in-chief of the largest newspaper in the country. He wasn’t alone: As acknowledged in the video, there were a great number of other privileged Hutus like him. That explains what happened in the aftermath of the 1st wave of anti-Tutsi genocide in the 1960s. After the majority of the Tutsi population had been either killed, expelled or deported, all government positions were filled with that same Hutu elite to the strict exclusion of any Tutsi people. It would have been IMPOSSIBLE to fill those positions if Hutus had been excluded from the school system, as is falsely claimed too often.

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There isn't much humanity in Africa

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