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Hello Schmedia Nation, and welcome back to Media Schmedia! Tonight! We get up close and personal with the Rwandan genocide that occurred back in 1994 and we find out the truth about what really happened and what the United States’ reaction was.  To get a closer look at what really happened, let’s go to my right hand man Mekenzi in 1994 Rwanda.

Kenzi: Thanks Kade. Because of our advanced technology, I was able to use this time machine to go back to 1994 to get a glimpse of Rwanda with my own eyes…

Thanks Mekenzi.  We have all just witnessed what it was really like in Rwanda at the time of the genocide.  As we saw, it was crazy.  I mean CRAZY.  People were running around massacring one another based on the separation of ethnic groups and political standing.  Let me get real with you for just a minute.  Nearly 800,000 men, women, and children died as a result of the genocide in Rwanda.  Where was the rest of the world while nearly 1 million people were murdered and many more fled from their homes?  There must have been a good reason for staying out of the picture, right? I mean, come on, we’re America! We get in everybody’s business!

I think that it was all just a little confusion, so for a little clarity we go to tonight’s Palabra.  And tonight’s Palabra is “The G Word”.

Due to the 1948 Genocide Convention, the United States as well as all of the other countries that signed have a responsibility to investigate genocide and punish all who are found responsible.  So obviously we can’t just toss that word around all willy nilly like.  At least that’s what the Clinton Administration and other world leaders felt. (And President Clinton knows best).

Many leaders at the time felt that by saying that the killings in Rwanda were genocide then that made them morally responsible to intervene and would cause the public to call for action that they didn’t want to take (heaven forbid the public speak up).  So they referred to them as “possible, iffy at best, could be a chance, acts of genocide, maybe, possibly, perhaps, who knows?” in order to remain impartial to the events and keep the public from bursting out (clever word play!).

But I believe that even saying the word genocide PERIOD sounds a little to ugly and could still ignite the fire that is the good in humans to speak out, so I have come up with a solution.  We call it the “G-Word”.  Now we can say it all willy nilly like without that ugly feeling we get and without the negative connotation that goes along with it.  It’s like saying Eff You instead of F*** You.  (See?  It’s that easy!)

Now instead of beating around the bush with lengthy word-play, the government can simply say G-Word and no one will feel the need to do anything.  Remove the bad word, remove the bad feelings.

But few spoke out.  There were a small number of articles in the New York Times and other news outlets that raised their voice.  To get a little more information we go to my top notch experts, Connie Servative and Libby Earl.