Compare And Contrast Rwanda And Isis

There have been many genocides in history, but none have had more controversial views than Rwanda or ISIS. The United States government did not intervene in Rwanda or in ISIS to the extent that was needed. The death count kept rising while the US turned their backs to what was happening, and what is happening now. The genocides committed both in Rwanda, and by ISIS, have remarkable similarities and differences in the actions taken by the United States government to contain and prevent any further killings, whether directly or indirectly. During the Rwandan genocides the United States did little to stop the senseless murders and only spoke out after hundreds of thousands of people were killed. The genocide started when the Hutu president was shot down in his plane on April 6, 1944. Tensions were growing between the Hutu and the Tutsi for many years and the death of the president set off a war. The Hutu started to slaughter any person who was Tutsi or was suspected of having relationships with them. During the next three months the Hutu murdered around 1 million Tutsi using mainly machetes. They would recruit as many people as they could to help with the extermination by handing out thousands of machetes in public gatherings for cheap and efficient

The United States sees themselves as the protectors of freedom and the world police. During these genocides the US waited as long as possible before intervening. In both situations the United states acted when there was a threat to the US directly. In Rwanda the United States evacuated all American citizens in the first weeks of the genocide and then pulled all the soldiers out. When the threat of ISIS came up the US did not address it until they were a direct threat. In both cases, however, the longer the attacks went on, the more the US tried to come up with a