God love Romeo Dellaire. At least he tries. I found this interview on the CTV.ca website.
...Dallaire says the atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan are not any different from the genocide he observed in Rwanda, in which about 800,000 Rwandans, most of them Tutsis, died at the hands of Hutus.
"It is. It's another Rwanda," Dallaire told Canada AM from Boston.
"It's not a matter of whether the scale is totally comparable. It is the whole nature of the abuse of innocent people by another group that is specifically targeting them because of who they are, and where they are."
...Dallaire says it seems that there is always a global crisis that seems to take priority over conflicts in Africa. Most recently, the world has been caught up by the tsunami crisis in south Asia. Over the past two years, as the Darfur situation has worsened, the world has been focused on Iraq.
"Everything else seems to fall to the side," he says. "It was the same thing when Afghanistan was going on. We could have committed extensive capabilities in the Congo, but we abandoned the Congolese because we were wrapped up in Afghanistan."
Dallaire says conflicts in Africa never get the attention they merit and therefore the international community never steps in until it's reached a crisis point. It's as if the world believes that Africans "don't count," he says.
"In my estimation, this establishing of priorities of who counts and who doesn't in the world has been exacerbated over the 15 years of conflict. We haven't really come to the plate to respond to that."
Since the United Nations has declared that the situation is not genocide then nothing is going to happen. Can someone please explain to me why we are actually members of the UN anyway?
