POLS 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rwandan Genocide, Hutu, Tutsi
11 Nov 2016
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Lecture 12: foreign intervention and the responsibility to protect. Perspectives on intervention: the first view is that humanitarianism is possible and, in fact, there is a responsibility of the international community to intervene. This view is represented in the reading by. Gareth evans and in the film called the triumph of evil: the second view is that intervention is not straight-forward. Warnings come too late; the path forward is not self-evident; intervention itself does not work out as planned; political issues and interests get in the way; belligerents turn against the interveners. Falls into perspective one, that there is a responsibility of the international community to intervene. The world did nothing to stop the genocide before or during because they didn"t want to deal with the consequences of intervening. The triumph of evil is when good men do nothing. Clinton"s dramatic apology in rwanda: apologizes for his countries inaction but this is hollow and meaningless to the people of rwanda.
