Rwanda Genocide

In the article "Children of Rwanda's Genocide" published by the new york times, you are told of the Genocide in Rwanda and how the whole world wanted to turn a blind eye to it. The author tells us how more then 500,000 of the Tutsi a minority in Rwanda were killed by the Hutu extremists. The use of pictures was what was used to convey imagery as the text is not to descriptive but rather informative, there is however a case where they describe the children combing through garbage so that they can continue to live. The author is conveying a sense of darkness by telling us how 125,000 people are in jail for their crimes or how the world refused to consider the murders in Rwanda a genocide but let it be merely a civil war. It also tells us statistics such as how 90% of children in Rwanda have seen massacres and 86% had lost at least one family member from the massacres in Rwanda. The story keeps going from facts to a more descriptive wording, it is also biased against the governments of the world for not sooner acknowledging the crisis in Rwanda and merely dismissing it. The thing that impacted me the most in the article was the astonishing numbers of people killed as well as the governments negligence. The shocked me because we say it is human to help others and care and yet many leaders of the world refused to help the Tutsi who were being slaughtered at a rate of 5000 a day and merely turned a blind eye to the situation.