Is Rwanda Iraq's future?
It's easy to laugh at the French for this latest fiasco in Rwanda. They've really fucked things up. It wasn't enough that on November 19, 2006, French prosecutors, assisted by some stupid-ass judge, issued arrest warrants for nine men close to current Rwandan President Paul Kagame. The men include Rwanda's Armed Forces Chief, James Kabarebe, and Army Chief of Staff, Charles Kayonga.
All nine are suspected of involvement in the 1994 murder of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana which sparked 100 days of genocide that killed over one million people, 1/8 of the population of Rwanda.
In response to the warrants, Rwanda recalled their ambassador in France, kicked out French diplomats in Kigali, the capital, and disabled local broadcasts from Radio France International.
I guess France just assumed that they couldn't make things any worse for themselves so they went ahead and called for current President Kagame to stand trial for his role in killing his predecessor.
And now the shit is really hitting the fan.
But what does this have to do with the happy country of Iraq? I mean, the Iraqis don't speak French, their women can't go out unescorted and they aren't even Catholic.
True, but there are some similarities. Ones that extend beyond a lack of infrastructure; reliable power, water or sewer systems.
Both countries find themselves with a class division. For Rwanda, it is a totally fabricated ethnic system that labeled some people Tutsis and others Hutus. In Iraq, it is the division of religious beliefs for Sunnis and Shiites. Granted, this is a very simplistic analysis, but let's just roll with it, shall we? As with any good system of totalitarianism, the less numerous group was put in charge of the more numerous group. Tutsis and Sunnis.
Plus, the genocide was kind of like a Civil War so there you go. Our setup for Iraq.
If Kagame really did have a role in the murder of Habyarimana it would be if we found out that Talabani planned to overthrow, capture and execute Hussein. Which is absurd. Talabani may be the first non Sunni/Shiite leader of Iraq as well as a man with a strong relationship to the CIA, but his relationship with Saddam is probably no closer than Rumsfeld's.
Besides, for that analogy to work, Talabani would have to have been working very hard to remove Hussein before being elected as President of Iraq.
And then there's France. France is not like the United States. You see, France lashed out at Rwanda after accusations that French soldiers participated in the genocide. The discovery that US soldiers participated in setting up and delivering Iraq's Civil war will only come as a surprise to hardcore fans of Bill O'Reilly.
~Lila Schow
All nine are suspected of involvement in the 1994 murder of Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana which sparked 100 days of genocide that killed over one million people, 1/8 of the population of Rwanda.
In response to the warrants, Rwanda recalled their ambassador in France, kicked out French diplomats in Kigali, the capital, and disabled local broadcasts from Radio France International.
I guess France just assumed that they couldn't make things any worse for themselves so they went ahead and called for current President Kagame to stand trial for his role in killing his predecessor.
And now the shit is really hitting the fan.
But what does this have to do with the happy country of Iraq? I mean, the Iraqis don't speak French, their women can't go out unescorted and they aren't even Catholic.
True, but there are some similarities. Ones that extend beyond a lack of infrastructure; reliable power, water or sewer systems.
Both countries find themselves with a class division. For Rwanda, it is a totally fabricated ethnic system that labeled some people Tutsis and others Hutus. In Iraq, it is the division of religious beliefs for Sunnis and Shiites. Granted, this is a very simplistic analysis, but let's just roll with it, shall we? As with any good system of totalitarianism, the less numerous group was put in charge of the more numerous group. Tutsis and Sunnis.
Plus, the genocide was kind of like a Civil War so there you go. Our setup for Iraq.
If Kagame really did have a role in the murder of Habyarimana it would be if we found out that Talabani planned to overthrow, capture and execute Hussein. Which is absurd. Talabani may be the first non Sunni/Shiite leader of Iraq as well as a man with a strong relationship to the CIA, but his relationship with Saddam is probably no closer than Rumsfeld's.
Besides, for that analogy to work, Talabani would have to have been working very hard to remove Hussein before being elected as President of Iraq.
And then there's France. France is not like the United States. You see, France lashed out at Rwanda after accusations that French soldiers participated in the genocide. The discovery that US soldiers participated in setting up and delivering Iraq's Civil war will only come as a surprise to hardcore fans of Bill O'Reilly.
~Lila Schow
posted by Lila Schow at
1:52 PM
1 Comments:
Well said... Very well written.
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