Nèdeem Elmahjoub's blog

The perpetrators are not Muslims and the victims are Westerners or Ukrainians . Therefore, the story – like broader conflict in Congo – will not be ‘hyped’, followed everyday and religion blamed, for ‘our values’ have not been attacked. According to the BBC , “ War has ravaged the east of the country for the past 20 years. Five million people have died as a result of conflict. Related Africa's Leaky Giant

France was a close ally of the Hutu-led government prior to the massacres and has been accused of ignoring warning signs and training the militias who carried out the attacks. Little was done internationally to stop the killings. The UN and Belgium had forces in Rwanda but the UN mission was not given a mandate to act. The Belgians and most UN peacekeepers pulled out." — The BBC Even John Mearsheimer, a scholar of the now defunct but still predominant neorealist-International Relations theory, acknowledged this in 2002: "Despite claims that American policy is infused with moralism, Somalia is the only instance during the past hundred years in which US soldiers were killed in action on a humanitarian mission’—and ‘in that case, the loss of a mere eighteen soldiers so traumatized American policymakers’ that ‘they refused to intervene in Rwanda in the spring of 1994’, although ‘stopping that genocide would have been relatively easy and would have had virtually no effect on...