When ‘sorry’ is not enough

When Journalist Collette Braeckman called the United Nations and said that genocide was happening in Rwanda, nobody believed her. Whether the UN already knew and chose not to intervene or whether they did not want to clash with other concerned parties to intervene during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, is not an issue of concern or discussion. What is of concern is that over a million people died, while the international community folded its arms doing zilch. Surely, the international community had much time before intervening; otherwise, there would be no reason for any apologies right now. Sorry each year that we remember the loved ones we lost, becomes a politically high sounding statement, meant more for grandstanding and not to appease the aggrieved.