Socialist Forum: North Dublin City Rwanda, Genocide and the West

dublin | anti-capitalism | event notice Sunday April 03, 2005 14:42 by D Lynch - SWP

SOCIALIST FORUM Rwanda, Genocide and the West

SOCIALIST FORUM
Rwanda, Genocide and the West
Speaker: Willie Cummings
Location: Red Parrot Pub, Dorset Street, North Dublin
Time 8.30pm Monday 4, April

With the recent release of the film Hotel Rwanda there has been renewed interest in the genocide that took place in the African country over a decade ago. This meeting will look into the issues that arise from this and actions taken by the West. The speaker has experience of Rwanda.
In the second quarter of 1994, while much of the world was gearing up to the World Cup to be held in Los Angeles, one of history’s deadliest wholesale slaughters of human beings was taking place in Central Africa. Following the death of Rwanda’s President the Hutu powers-that-be decided it was time to eliminate the Tutsi minority who were blamed for the crash. What followed in the next three months was an orgy of hackings and shootings throughout the country of 7.6 million people that left more than 800,000 dead.

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