What Ruanda taught is that people and the governments are very
concerned about genocides in other countries - when they have
become history. But genocides that are unfolding, happening just
now? Well, concern maybe, but action to stop them? No! It´s better
to say later "We are sorry, next time we will do better" and rise statues
and so on.

And then give the victims a free hand to go berserk themselves, like
the tutsi-dominated Ruandan government in former Zaire, what is
now DR of Congo. They have participated in a war that has killed
something between 3 100 000 - 6 300 000 people. And one of the
financiers have been Western countries. United Kingdom has given
tens of millions of dollars to the Ruandan government at the same
their army and their allies have been killing or causing the death of
huge number of people.

And the deaths of 300 000 people in neighbouring Burundi have got
little attention. Now that the civil war there seems to be ending, it
has gotten some attention.

So, I doubt that the demands that the situation in Sudan´s Darfur
province needs action before it becomes "another Ruanda" will lead to
much action by the leading powers of the world. Better to look away
and apologize later is, after all, the usual way of handling these kind
of things. And so massacres continue, and combine to make a genocide.

The latest figure coming from Ruanda about the number of people
killed in the 1994 genocide is 937 000.