Kim Garro
Childhood Thieves
Forty boys. Forty young men and children taken from their lives. In Nigeria the Boko Haram group has forcibly taken young men
ages 10-23 from their lives. Boko Haram is a terrorist group who went into the village of Malari Rwanda the Hutu’s have one goal and
will stop at nothing to reach it. Their goal is to kill of the Tutsi’s, or
anyone who is not like them, physically and mentally.
Being
in the society we live in it is very hard to believe something as evil as
stealing away a childhood can exist. But, unfortunately it is real and
currently happening. The worst part to me, is knowing this is happening but
sitting back and just reading articles. We sit back, say “aw what a shame” then
go back to Twitter and see what is new with our followers. America knows
too much information. I understand that our country does not want to complicate
problems with anyone but how can we just not do anything at all? In the movie
Hotel Rwanda ,
why did American troops only save the white people at first? That is something
that is pure sickening to me. America
knowing that the whites weren’t truly the ones in danger, they still saved them
first. The killing over thousands of people happened in front of their eyes,
and yet they just stood and watched. People deserve to get treated as people,
whether they are in our country or not, they deserve to be saved. Stepping in
and saving one person is better then what American is currently doing.
Childhoods deserve to be restored, lives deserve to be restored.
How though? I don't mean to sound like a cynic, I believe we should combat this social ill, but how exactly do we go about fighting yet another terrorist group and reversing their agenda without getting entangled in another costly war?
ReplyDeleteI think the answer, at least partially, could lie in the same remedy at work against ISIL: a indirect coalition of involved countries. Instead of placing US forces in a country to enact search and acquire missions where we completely destroy the infrastructure of any country an enemy is occupying and leave ( similar to our approach in Saudi Arabia) it would be more productive to work within our alliances giving our friends the assistance they need to not only eradicate the threat and bring their kids home, but to repair their own country after the fighting ends and the rebuilding begins
This still leaves a number of social problems though,such as what to do with the kidnapped who have been turned into willing participants of the massacres
ReplyDeleteExactly, I agree it is extremely dangerous and puts America in great harm too. I understand why we don't get involved but what if something like that was happening in our country? What would we do? In my opinion there is never going to be a right answer. If I was the leader I don't know what i would personally do. Given that the rebels almost over throw the army. But, the main issue is reversing the mind set of those driven in to torture by forces. Something like that may have no right answer.
ReplyDeleteWhen you connected this to Hotel Rwanda and said why did they only take the white people out if they weren't the ones in immediate danger, there was a couple things off about it. It wasn't "us" necessarily, it was the UN and the reasons the "whites" got out first was because they were just guest at the hotel. They were from out of the country and the UN was making sure to get them out before the ones of that country. It wasn't because they were white it was because they weren't from Rwanda. I mean the one UN officer was trying to do everything he could to get them all out and into safety, it's just when hundreds of thousands of people are being displaced from their homes you need to find a place to put them and find a way to supply them with what they need. Basically what i'm trying to say is there is a lot that goes into helping. You can't just hop into the country with no set plan and expect it to work out. But I do 100% agree with you when you say there is never going to be a right answer. Because in someones eyes it will be wrong.
ReplyDeleteYeah I understand what you are saying. But, in the movie Paul kept saying "they aren't here to help us" so, I assumed it was because well they were part of the problem. Typically the white people weren't. Yes, I understand it was because they weren't from Rwanda but they were white. The two reporters who came to Rwanda to spread the word, when they were leaving the UN forcibly pulled aside the African American and made him show his papers. Maybe I am just overthinking what I wrote about, but this is a very hard subject to focus on. It is difficult to not over think the movie and the situations that occurred. Especially because we weren't their, we do not know the true motives of them. We only know what we heard or read about.
ReplyDeleteWhy does America choose to bury their heads in the sand about these issues? Is it because we don't care, or because it is downright unbelievable? I don't think that we as a country can ever understand what these people go through on a daily basis. It's an alien culture to us and we will never be able to relate to that aspect.
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