Chapter 579 579 Rwandan Genocide

The shocking effects of the new renminbi have not yet passed, and the Shinrikyo rebellion and the Ebola crisis in Japan are still raging, just as a horrific tragedy in Africa has unfolded: the Rwandan genocide.

The genocide in Rwanda was largely a genocidal act perpetrated by the majority Hutu ethnic group against the Tutsi ethnic group in a minority but with a relatively high status. It was the colonizers who caused the ******** in Rwanda to intensify. In fact, the Tutsi and the Hutu are not much different in terms of race, language, and cultural beliefs, but what really distinguishes them is their occupation and social status, which is not quite the same as the caste system in India. In India, it's a matter of color and occupation.

The Tutsi used to be pastoralists living on the land, and they mainly lived by herding cattle and sheep, while the Hutu were mainly farmers engaged in crops. The class difference between them came from the relations of production, with the Hutu using oxen to cultivate the land, while the Tutsi had cattle and lent them to the Hutu, who in turn lacked property and had to use labor in exchange, which ultimately led to the Tutsi being superior to the Hutu.

After the Belgians colonized the area, they consciously approached and cultivated the Tutsis, using them to rule the region. After the fifties of the twentieth century, knowing that colonization could not last forever, the Belgians began to pay attention to the Hutu people, artificially creating ethnic contradictions like other European colonizers, and providing conditions for themselves to continue to maintain influence and arbitration power in the region.

Conflicts and even wars broke out between the Hutu and Tutsi over the right to rule the country, and before the massacre, there were three civil wars between the two communities, resulting in a large number of casualties and property damage.

In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a Tutsi refugee group living in neighbouring Uganda, clashed with the Hutu government, triggering a new civil war. Civil wars in African countries rarely involve the complete elimination of one side by the other, so the script was repeated over and over again, and on 4 August 1993, the Hutu Government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, with the mediation of several neighbouring countries, signed a peace agreement in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, deciding to end the civil war.

The ethnic extremists in the Hutu government were dissatisfied with the end of the civil war and considered President Juvenal Habyarimana, who had signed the peace agreement, very unhappy that he had made too many concessions in negotiations with the Patriotic Front and was a traitor.

On 6 April 1994, the plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprian Ntariamila was shot down near Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, killing both Presidents. The incident immediately became a trigger for Hutu dissatisfaction with the peace of the armistice, and the Hutu national extremist forces accused the Rwandan Patriotic Front of killing the Hutu president by the Tutsi ethnic group, so they called on the Hutu to take up all kinds of weapons to clean up the Tutsi throughout the country.

In the propaganda of Hutu extremists, the Rwandan state is likened to a large garden in which Hutu extremists enjoy the terrible "fun" of their followers "cutting down weeds", "cutting down tall trees (adults)" and "tree buds (children)". Countless Hutu took up machetes, sticks and even farm implements to massacre Tutsis, who could have been their former neighbors, without the slightest psychological burden. The ferocity of human nature is evident at this moment.

Not only the Tutsi were slaughtered, but even some moderate Hutus who advocated national reconciliation and sheltered some of the Tutsis who had escaped. This is no longer a simple genocide, but a group of brutal people enjoying the thrill of killing.

On the other hand, the horrific massacre killed more than 800,000 people and wiped out a ninth of Rwanda's population. At the end of the twentieth century, there was such a terrible genocide, and the United Nations and the rest of the world, which professed to uphold international justice and justice, reacted negatively, and ultimately contributed to this tragedy.

The United Nations has not only behaved passively in the whole episode of the genocide in Rwanda, but has been nothing short of irresponsible and cover-up. It wasn't until the fourth day of the massacre that the UN Security Council voted to keep 260 peacekeepers in Rwanda symbolically, a drop in the bucket whose role was to mediate a ceasefire and provide humanitarian assistance.

It was only after almost a month and a half of the genocide in Rwanda that the United Nations decided to increase the number of UNAMA personnel to 5,500, expand its operational mandate and persuade other countries to participate in the rescue. The so-called rescue efforts are mainly based on the provision of medical assistance, but there is no use of armed forces to stop the massacres.

The root cause of this phenomenon is actually the "Black Hawk Fall" of the US military defeat a year ago, which has made the so-called advanced countries completely afraid of setting foot in Africa. There are still very fierce inhabitants in this wild land, and once they sink into this mud, they will probably have to drop a few pieces of meat if they want to pull it out again.

Of course, in Rwanda, a small country in central Africa, with little strategic position and no important resources, it is indeed not the work of the politicians of the capitalist countries to save the people there for the sake of so-called international justice.

The day after the massacre in Rwanda, China's representative to the United Nations urgently proposed that the UN Security Council immediately dispatch an unrestricted peacekeeping force to Rwanda to relieve the humanitarian crisis.

Li Zhaoxing, China's representative to the United Nations, made an impassioned statement: "...... This terrible humanitarian crisis will be more serious than anyone can imagine, and if it is not stopped, then this blood debt will be counted not only on the heads of the perpetrators, but also on my heads, on your heads, on the heads of all of us, we have the power to save hundreds of thousands of lives, but we have not helped, and from now on, the conscience of each and every one of us will be subjected to torture and endless condemnation.

Therefore, I would like to solemnly request you to allow the United Nations peacekeeping force to be sent into Rwanda, and the Chinese Government will do everything in its power to protect those who are being violated from harm. The Chinese people will also be their strong backing to support the victims of Rwanda to survive this difficulty. China also calls on all peace-loving and justice-upholding countries around the world to stand up with the Rwandan people in this time of crisis and oppose the atrocities committed by the rioters. I also hope that the United Nations will bear in mind the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and defend it! ”

That's all it takes, and no one dares to openly object to this kind of thing. On the other hand, several major countries have a tacit understanding that they are unwilling to send troops for this unworthy thing, wasting military spending and harming human lives. However, if someone breaks this tacit agreement and wants to interfere in it, even if each country abstains, it is estimated that it will be despised by its own people.

Of course, even if a draft resolution proposed by China is adopted, demanding that the Rwandan government immediately stop conniving at the Hutu massacre and allow more armed forces to be sent into Rwanda for peacekeeping operations, countries can play more tricks in the final stage, how many troops to send and how much support to provide.

Although the United States has raised a very high profile, and Clinton even said in the White House that the United States will take all necessary measures to protect the people who have been violated there, in fact the United States has sent only a small number of Red Cross teams, and there has not been a single real combatant.

Even Belgium originally stationed a lot of soldiers in Rwanda, after all, Belgium was also the original suzerainty of the region, but some Belgian soldiers were affected in the massacre, and Belgium could not bear the pressure, so it actually withdrew all its own soldiers, not to mention sending more people for peacekeeping.

Two hours after the UN resolution took effect, China obtained permission from Uganda to pass its airspace and immediately took off a large number of Y-20 strategic transport planes from its military base in Sudan, carrying about 1,000 Chinese airborne troops, into Rwanda.

This group of Chinese airborne troops landed on Rwandan territory three hours after the resolution was passed, not to mention the issue of the will to rescue, this kind of rapid strike capability alone is enough to make the world look sideways. This shows that the global organization and strike capabilities of the Chinese PLA have been raised to a terrible level. As soon as the resolution passed, China's front-line command immediately set sail, and the airborne troops, who had made all the combat preparations, boarded the transport plane and flew directly to their destination.

In addition to the airborne troops stationed in Sudan, China will also urgently dispatch an entire airborne division to Africa, the route is from Pakistan's Gwadar base for a transit, then across the Arabian Sea, directly to Rwanda for airdropping, and then to Sudan for refueling, and then return.

In addition, Chinese marines will also be airborne into Rwanda. Neither the Airborne Forces nor the Marine Corps carry particularly heavy weapons, and only a number of multi-purpose infantry vehicles are parachuted in to assist them in combat. In addition, the Chinese Air Force and Army Aviation stationed in Sudan will also provide assistance to Rwanda's friendly forces.

China's Ministry of National Defense initially planned to send 13,000 troops to Rwanda for a rescue mission, and later decided to increase or decrease the size of the troop according to changes in the situation. In addition, peacekeeping forces from other countries supporting Rwandan Tutsi refugees will also enter Rwanda through various forms after emergency redeployments. However, the scale of the peacekeeping troops sent by these countries is not very large, most in their early 100s, and some countries even find that the number of people sent is too small to be worth special transportation, and they even ask China to help take these peacekeepers away by the way, so that they will not be allowed to take civilian planes or enter Rwanda on foot.