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Originally Posted by Faltigoth Something tells me they don't teach you about Rwanda in grade school or maybe not even high school, even though it was a massacre that approached or maybe even exceeded Holocaust levels of evil. But, like you said, it happened in Africa so of course, our media saturation of it is nonexistent. It wasn't like there were embedded reporters running with the Tutsi.
People that are graduating high school now were all of 7 or 8 years old when that shit last got serious press coverage, and probably not giving too much a shit about world events at that point. I mean, I can still clearly remember the Challenger from when I was in grade school, but that is about it. A little bit about Ollie North's trial. Nelson Mandela getting freed. Other shit is all a blur.
But yeah, it IS criminal that there are people with no clue about what happened and is still happening over there, and it IS criminal that we have done nothing about it. That's a whole other discussion though. |
dunno, maybe i was lucky to have a good history teacher who made us study the newest texts but when we studied 20th century, the Rwanda massacre was an important event in the african chapter, even if it was a recent event
anyway, as you said, its odd that someone doesnt know about these events (again, no offence Cathan
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