Valuing all human life v Looking the other way
At a
memorial conference to the
800,000 people who died during the 1994
Rwandan genocide,
Kofi Annan, the head of the UN (and former head of UN peace-keeping) has expressed his
bitter regret that he did not do more to rally international action, and stop the killing.
Sadly,
Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire, the head of the peace-keeping force in Rwanda at the time, has said that he feels the attitudes which prevailed at the time remain... stating "I still believe that if an organisation decided to wipe out the
320 mountain gorillas there would be still more of a reaction by the international community to curtail or to stop that than there would be still today in attempting to protect
thousands of human beings being slaughtered in the same country."
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