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The US and Britain, for their part, valiantly blocked any UN intervention to stop the genocide in Rwanda and resolutely opposed the use of the term genocide by the UN security council to describe the situation, even after 2 weeks of systematic killing. Why? Basically they knew that their boys, the RPF (a Tutsi Rwandan exile army based in neighboring Uganda led by the current dictator Paul Kàgame), were going to win the war and any mention of the term genocide would have forced the UN to act. A UN intervention would have probably led to some sort of power-sharing deal allowing the French to hold onto some influence. As it was they were set to get everything, what be it if a million or so natives should get massacred? They simply weren't interested.
It is also interesting to note that today, more that 6 years after the genocide Rwanda is an extremely racist police state, there is no prospect of anything resembling democracy (as the tutsi minority couldn't possibly win) and the regime is the number one golden boy of the US in Africa, subsequently receiving vastly disproportionate funding from NGO's, IFI's etc.
http://struggle.ws/africa/accounts/chek ... feb01.html
Semira wrote:Assad of Syria is a minority alawit shiit brand from syria. in syria and lebanon, shi'its, suni and maronite christians live together. so far, religious blood bath is not happening thanks to shiit hisbolah is dominating lebanon and alawi-shiits dominates Syria. if the suni pigs control power, they will exterminate christians and shiites just like what egyptian sunis are doing to christians and iraqi sunis were doing to shiites. Oj-Listro the wahabist suni might not agree with this but it is the truth. The suni wahabists and salafists are very dangerous and wouldn't hesitate to exterminate anyone different from them and i don't know why the West is entertaining them in syria while russia is articulating the situation and siding with Assad
Semira wrote:Assad of Syria is a minority alawit shiit brand from syria. in syria and lebanon, shi'its, suni and maronite christians live together. so far, religious blood bath is not happening thanks to shiit hisbolah is dominating lebanon and alawi-shiits dominates Syria. if the suni pigs control power, they will exterminate christians and shiites just like what egyptian sunis are doing to christians and iraqi sunis were doing to shiites. Oj-Listro the wahabist suni might not agree with this but it is the truth. The suni wahabists and salafists are very dangerous and wouldn't hesitate to exterminate anyone different from them and i don't know why the West is entertaining them in syria while russia is articulating the situation and siding with Assad
Zmeselo wrote:U´re right on this one Semira. We´ve the recent example from Bahrain, where the majority Shiites were violently repressed recently and we´ve Saudi Arabia with a minority Shia, living under oppression as well. The christians in Syria want Assad to stay, not because he´s an angel but because of "better the devil U know". lus, Assad is a syrian problem and should be left for the syriasns to handle. This, "more catholic than the pope" attitude of some people is really reprehensible. It´s a tool for intervention. There´s, absolutely, no democracy anywhere in the world. There´s only plutocracy!
Bullshit.I personally don't want Assad of Syria to fall
The Russian position is based on expert assessments of the dangerous consequences of a further escalation of the armed confrontation in Syria. Considering its special geopolitical location in the region and fragile interreligious balance, if Syria does not begin a national dialogue without foreign interference, these consequences will affect the interests of all countries – Russia, Europe, the United States and Arab states. The conflict in Syria is increasingly acquiring religious overtones. There is a risk of it spilling into neighboring Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, and perhaps further southward. In this case the worst-case scenario may come to pass – the world community will have to deal with a broader inter-Muslim conflict if not a collision between civilizations. Syria’s numerous Christian communities traditionally supported the more secular Alawi minority and are justifiably concerned over the possible spread of Salafi Islam in Syria.
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revolutions wrote:
This author agrees with Semira.
The Russian position is based on expert assessments of the dangerous consequences of a further escalation of the armed confrontation in Syria. Considering its special geopolitical location in the region and fragile interreligious balance, if Syria does not begin a national dialogue without foreign interference, these consequences will affect the interests of all countries – Russia, Europe, the United States and Arab states. The conflict in Syria is increasingly acquiring religious overtones. There is a risk of it spilling into neighboring Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq, and perhaps further southward. In this case the worst-case scenario may come to pass – the world community will have to deal with a broader inter-Muslim conflict if not a collision between civilizations. Syria’s numerous Christian communities traditionally supported the more secular Alawi minority and are justifiably concerned over the possible spread of Salafi Islam in Syria.
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