Ethnic Warfare

The Mueller and Peck offer new perspective when discussing the situation in Rwanda and subsequently, Darfur. I have heard Darfur referred as "Rwanda in slow motion". Essentially, the plot plays out slower, but the results are beginning to look much the same, with the same sort of characters in play. What seems to be an all-against-all war is more accurately the forcible takeover by unpoliced thugs fueled by government incitement and 'liquid courage' that threatens the civilian population. Ultimately the responsibility leads back to those few who have not only committed genocide by an act of killing, but the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide clearly states that conspiracy to commit genocide, direct and public incitement to commit genocide, and complicity with genocide are all punishable by law. The government is involved in arming and giving orders to these marauders that are taking and threatening the lives of these neighbors. It is not people against people, but few against many. A situation that, when addressed logically, might be taken care of quickly. Identifying these players and sending in some sort of international force would have most likely quickly pacified the situation, Mueller writes, but I wonder if that would only be a short term solution when a government is actively working against it's own citizens.