http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xON22c7pZ6c
This video clip is from the PBS movie, Ghosts of Rwanda. It includes several interviews with Philippe Gaillard, leader of the Red Cross in Rwanda. He gives honest accounts of the horrible things he has seen while in Rwanda and the way his experience has effected his life. I believe that without him, the outcome of the genocide would be much different. I believe that many more thousands of people would have died. He chose to confront the killers himself, pleading for the lives of people he had never met before. This is the unbelievable account of the situation form the eyes of the man himself.
I agree that Philippe Gaillard should be considered someone of great importance. I wish there were more people like him that were involved in so many other mass murders. If other countries that have the ability to help would just do even the smallest amount more, then I believe way less lives would have been lost.
ReplyDeleteI think the US made a monumental mistake in Rwanda, I don’t think they did nearly enough. I can’t believe our government could actually sit there and say that they weren’t aware of what was going on in Rwanda. I think the president or someone of greater importance should have gone and looked at the destruction that was happening in Rwanda as soon as they found out about it, and made their decision based on that. Because the president said he didn’t realize until he went after the fact and walked on top of dead bodies, but it was too late for him to do anything then.
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