Tucker Carlson

Back in April of 1994, some of the worst atrocities of the modern era broke out in the landlocked Central African country of Rwanda.

To make a very complicated story short, the dominant tribe in Rwanda, the Hutu tribe, which controlled the government and had the majority of the population, for a bunch of different reasons, rose up under the direction of their leaders and attempted to exterminate the minority tribe in the nation called the Tutsis.

And for 100 days, they did their best.

They killed hundreds of thousands of them, more than half a million of them, many with machetes or burned alive or buried alive.

And they raped even more than that.

And not just raped, but literally corralled AIDS patients in AIDS hospitals and sent them out to rape Tutsi women and to affect them with HIV, which they did.

It was horrifying, and as the details of what happened during what is now referred to as the Rwandan genocide filtered out to the rest of the world, people were stunned and nauseated by it and really bewildered that something like this could happen not that long after the most famous genocide in history in the 1940s in Europe, to which we'd all said, well, that could never happen again.

Well, it did.

A version of it did happen in Rwanda

in 1994.

But what was even more distressing and in some ways shocking was that the world knew it was happening as it happened and did nothing to stop it and in most cases said nothing about it, even when it was in progress.

From the very beginning, four days after the genocide of Rwanda started, a Swiss journalist in Kilgali, the capital, published a piece in a French newspaper saying, I have interviewed eight officials who

And there's a genocide going on in Rwanda.

This ran in a Western paper and then was picked up in other Western papers.

But no one did anything.

So the Red Cross knew it was happening.

The UN knew it was happening.

There were UN troops in Rwanda.

The French government knew it was happening.

There were French troops there.