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Mercenaries used in Rwanda
According to Wikipedia, there was an idea to hire the South African private contractor company, Executive Outcomes, for peacekeeping/-making/ripping sh!t up, during the Rwanda Civil War in 1994. They would have saved 100,000 people, at the price of U.S. $100 million.
Now, the UN not only was not willing to do something as radical as to hire mercenaries, but they weren't even able to use their own peacekeepers, much less ask the European intervention force to stay. So what if some prominent Tutsi/moderate Hutus got the EO mercenaries to come to Rwanda and to stop the genocide? I was thinking of this while I watched Hotel Rwanda the other day. As terrible as the events were happening, I kept on wondering, "what if a bunch of apartheid tough guys showed up?" I think alternate history also has a desensitizing effect, but that's for another thread. |
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