Gun does NOT equal cowboy! - Page 6

Aliantha · 12-02-2010, 12:03 AM

Maybe, but it seems to me that if one group of people is set on exterminating another group, they'll find a way to do it one way or another.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-02-2010, 12:11 AM

I think the only way to battle that is to assume the same attitude, unless there's an accessible safe haven. And those African refugee camps don't qualify.

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-16-2010, 04:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

In Rwanda, no one was really armed with much more than a machete, and both sides had those. It's just that the aggressors chose to use theirs.

What tipped the balance into a genocide rather than a hand to hand machete fight was one party had guns and the other did not. Wiki on "Rwandan Genocide:"

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The assassination of [Juvénal] Habyarimana in April 1994 set off a violent reaction, resulting in the Hutus' conducting mass killings of Tutsis and pro-peace Hutus. Primarily responsible were two Hutu militias associated with political parties: the Interahamwe and the Impuzamugambi. The Hutu Power group known as the Akazu directed the genocide.

12-02-2010, 12:03 AM	#76
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	Maybe, but it seems to me that if one group of people is set on exterminating another group, they'll find a way to do it one way or another. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

12-02-2010, 12:11 AM	#77
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I think the only way to battle that is to assume the same attitude, unless there's an accessible safe haven. And those African refugee camps don't qualify. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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