Obama, just can't call it a genocide

[Loren Pechtel]

And I'm not saying they are. I'm saying that the distribution of the casualties says that Rwanda was mostly opportunistic murders. Since the primary motivation wasn't to eliminate a group I have a hard time calling it genocide even though it started out as ethnic violence.

The Hutu extremists imported millions of macheté ahead of the genodice. They had a recent census that let then know where the Tutsi lived and where "moderate" Hutsis who didn;t want to take part in the extremist anti-Tutsi campaign lived.

Radio Mille Collines deliberately upped their language, cranking up the anti-Tutsi propoganda, describing the Tutsi and moderates as cochroaches and vermins. A classic sign of a genocidal campaign

What happaned in Rwanda was most definitely a pre-planned and well thought genocidal campaign. Whatever sidelines events you think might have happened doe't detract from the fact that the massacres were preplanned as a genocide of the Tutsi people in Rwanda at the hands of Hutu Power extremists.

It started out a genocide. However, the casualty distribution shows that most of the murders were opportunistic murders taking advantage of the situation to eliminate rivals.

 

[angelo]

What about Stalin's genocide of his own people? Millions of people died, many by malnutrition under his dictatorship. That's why Hitler was shocked when the Russians didn't embrace his invading armies.

Ya, that was a burn. Stalin killed millions of his own people and they still preferred him over Hitler.

Ha ha! Fuck you, Hitler.

Hitler and the Nazis fucked up badly because of their perceived superiority over the Slavic people. The Russians at first did embrace the advancing German armies, and did think for a short time that the Germans were the liberators. But once the Russians witnessed the Nazi
brutality by the Gestapo which followed the invading armies, they very quickly turned to fight for mother Russia.