Speaking at the opening event of the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre’s annual Holocaust education series, he said that the world continues to ignore bloodshed in Africa because of race.
Dallaire, who pleaded – without success – for permission to take steps to stop the massacre while he was commander of the United Nations forces in Rwanda, said existing international laws and regulations are not being used to stop crimes against humanity in Africa. He pointed to killing of the black population in the Darfur province of Sudan over the past 15 months.
“We do have the legal tools, but not the political will nor the desire of the public,” said Dallaire, who was the keynote speaker.
“Why get involved? There’s no strategic or geographic interest, there’s nothing in it for us. Africa is overpopulated anyway… We take the destruction of human beings as some sort of trite exercise that is to be expected,” he said.
“Are some more human than others? Do we establish a priority among humanity, a pecking order?”"
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