God, SHOOTING DOGS really affected me. Such an incredible, powerful film.

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>The country's principal language is Kinyarwanda, which is spoken by nearly all Rwandans

According to Wikipedia. French and English are used, but there are not mainstream.

This situation also exists in Nigeria, where again the Francosphere and Anglosphere interests clashed during the Biafra war.

And uhh, maybe I should talk to you about Canada, Belgium, Spain, China, India, Ukraine, and countless other countries that practice bilingualism or even multilingualism

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Which weapons? Machetes? You find them in supermarkets. Small firearms where used but in smaller quantities.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022343306059576

Why is that nonsense? Plenty of countries are multilingual

So Hutu speak French and Tutsi speak English in the same country? That is nonsense.

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Any good books on the subject? Been to Rwanda briefly and wanted to learn more about the specifics as well as the bigger picture…

That sounds a lot like WWII sites which were left as-is for remembrance.

Didn’t Kofi Annan admit that he regretted the UN’s inaction with regards to the genocide? Definitely remember reading that somewhere. In any case, too little, too late! Regret, my foot.

I got them via pirate bay, too hard to find them legitimately, which is probably why pirating wins so often.

Thought it said $12 million but ya thought it was clear that France financial weapons in the days leading to the genocide

100% second this. But I will say, it is EXTREMELY hard to find. I recommended it to someone last year and it took us quite a long time to find it.

Interesting, thank you!

It was most definitely the government. François Mitterrand at the time was convinced (like lots of French people tbh) that the French language was going to fade everywhere to English, and that the francophone community of nations was, sort of, under siege by English.

He made it clear he supported the francophone side for this reason. Did he know what they planned to do? Hard to say, probably not, at least for the genocide, but the French government was most definitely in cahoots with them. And the French government very well knew about the planned coup. Not some private actor.

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Except force doesn't necessarily stop anything. It can make things much worse. There have been multiple foreign interventions made to pacify and separate the two sides of African ethnic conflicts and that rarely ends up with great results. Last one was in the CAR between the Seleka and the Anti Balaka

Edit : typo,it's the CAR not the BAR

> and other foreign citizens from Freetown

That doesn’t sound like self interest then does it?

> Uranium and oil in Mali

As the other commenter said. There is none.

> you might want to read what Taylor Branch had to say

Why would I care what Taylor Branch had to say with regards to genocide in the Balkans. I care more about what the people of Kosovo had to say - you know the people who where slaughtered. In that case I’ll just leave this here:

> Tonibler is a male given name in Kosovo, given in honour of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair following his role in the 1999 NATO air campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War.

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