never again once again

Bearing in mind that nations do not want to give up their national sovereignty, the UN should disregard respect for national sovereignty in certain cases such as genocide. By standing back and not acting upon reports of mass massacres and genocide, the UN does not follow through on its core beliefs. General Dallaire told Frontline “Rwanda will never ever leave me. It's in the pores of my body. My soul is in those hills, my spirit is with the spirits of all those people who were slaughtered and killed that I know of, and many that I didn't know. … Fifty to sixty thousand people walking in the rain and the mud to escape being killed, and seeing a person there beside the road dying,” (Frontline). The UN should have intervened. What happened in Rwanda is devastating. Bill Clinton, US president then, apologized to Rwanda for having limited help. But will apologizing to a nation for purposely failing to act erase this horrid history. Will admitting that Rwanda was a mistake bring back the million lives that were lost? Will “never again” happen again?