"Shooting dogs" is thst reference to D'Allaire mental breakdown?

Thankfully my alcoholism doubles as a hobby.

That’s the weapons neighbors used to kill their neighbors! Machetes! This was ethnic cleansing carried out by the people themselves, and the authorities didn’t stop it.

Thank you for mentioning Opération Turquoise (and in French). Totally goes under the radar in these discussions usually.

Fewer work hours would just allow me more time for my hobbies but I do admit that with enough downtime I’d fit some alcohol in eventually. :)

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The French have been around atrocities for quite a while

...Did I say otherwise?

Why is US responsible when it should be UN?

I watched movie Hotel Rwanda, and it’s horrific killings was carried out by the ordinary people. It was neighbors killing neighbors.

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

The French held significant influence within the old Rwandan (Hutu nationalist) Government who went on to commit Genocide. At any point in the month long massacre that killed nearly a million people they could have put their foot down in order to, at the very least, tamp down some of the killing. Going beyond inaction, there have been an abundance of accusations that France actively participated by shuttling Hutu nationalist to cities, villages, or dwellings where Tutsi (or moderate Hutu) citizens were hiding and subsequently murdered. As the Genocide began to slow down and the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front, the rebel army who fought the Hutu Nationalist government both before and after the Genocide) began to gain control, the French helped to evacuate many of the genocidaire's (mostly of upper government position) out of Rwanda and into the DRC or abroad. The French were some of the first on the ground in the DRC to provide aid and create refuge encampments for the fleeing Hutu Nationalist who were now on the run after having murdered their neighbors. The French media blasted on about the dangerous RPF and the poor Hutu who were fleeing an unprovoked army who wanted them dead for no reason; don't mind the million dead Tutsi and Hutu brothers and sisters those Hutu Nationalist left behind them. And the reason for it all, essentially, is because French policy was to side with whoever spoke French. That's it. Seriously. They just didn't care about what was happening and they desperately wanted to keep French speaking leadership in control.

Check out the Wiki on Rwanda and do some source clicks, it has plenty of places to start on this topic, but really you need to find books and media written about the subject, of which several good ones have been mentioned in these comments.

EDIT: further to add, the French being found "complicit" is not the same as the French being found responsible (what you wrote). They helped further the cause of genocide in ways that go beyond simple inaction (inaction being the flavor of diplomacy the rest of the world adopted). The Hutu nationalist are the ones ultimately responsible and no one denies that, but while the rest of the world turned a blind eye the French were doing deals with the devil under the table.

You might dig the Ross King book, Booksellers of Florence. You can hear him talk about it at the Philadelphia Free Library. https://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/episode/2003

>Another posited that utensils and dwellings will be made largely of "pulps and cements."

3d printing! I'm sure the predictor imagined the use of molds, but it's nice to see materials science predictions.

>One writer envisioned a world in which Pittsburgh and London take orders "on talking films" from merchants in Peking, and "1,000-mile-an-hour freighters" deliver goods before sunset.

Half right. I can sit in pittsburg and order stuff from china, but the shipping is a usually a little slower than that. It's technically possible, but I think this predictor forgot to think about fuel costs. Also the fact that 1000mph shipping is unquestionably a weapon of war.

My friends from Montenegro? Im sure i spelled it wrong. Said they were finally rebuilding or fixing there war torn home in ole yugolslavia. This was like 5 or so years. Ago. Unreal.

Obviously a report commissioned by the Rwandan government should be taken with a grain of salt, but given the number of coups in Africa that were stage/supported by France, none of this seems surprising

Have you ever heard of a country called Canada? What about the history of Senegal and The Gambia?

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Our tech and insanely high individual productivity supports the idea, but lots of jobs require continuity.

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I second this book. Very harrowing read. Philip is a French journalist, and he actually places a lot of blame on France in this book.

They did the killing with weapons and training provided by the French.

Not when the French are expressly financing millions for the weapons used

If I give a suicide bomb to a jihadi Im not exactly blameless for what happens next

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I literally just read an article on Reddit (I'll see if I can find it) that says fewer working hours leads to more alcohol consumption. Obviously this would not be the case for everyone, though. But it was a tongue-in-cheek comment.