END POPULATION EXPLOSION (petition)

[burgundia]

Originally Posted by KathyT

If this is an example of "problems before the whites got there"...it's no comparision. Rwanda was an ethic battle within the country, basically a civil war.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1288230.stm?lss
"Between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days.

Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus.

Ethnic tension in Rwanda is nothing new. There have been always been disagreements between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis, but the animosity between them has grown substantially since the colonial period.

1994: RWANDA'S GENOCIDE

The two ethnic groups are actually very similar - they speak the same language, inhabit the same areas and follow the same traditions. "

i hope you know that as a rule the Belgian 'rulers" treated Tutsi better than they treated Hutu ( apparently tutsi look more like "whites" because of the facial features). It created animosities between those two groups. it was probably something like "house" slaves vs slaves working on plantations...

and even if it was not the case.....don't you think that it was more appropriate to send troops there than to iraq or afghanistan? of course if they really wanted to help...