From the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3602859.stm)
Rwanda is marking the 10th anniversary of the genocide in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu militias.


And this article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3599493.stm)
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused the international community of deliberately failing to prevent the genocide in the country 10 years ago.
Speaking at the conference on the killings in the Rwandan capital Kigali, Mr Kagame condemned the worldwide inaction at the time.

He also questioned whether countries would act differently now.

Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu militias during a few weeks in 1994.

And if the West HAD gone in we'd be where we are with Iraq.........."It's the West's fault for sticking our noses in!!!!!"

Can't win can we.

I would always back doing something over doing nothing

Of course the west wouldn't get involved in this kind of situation ... there would be no profit in doing so.

The West was there in the form of the UN. Troops were courageously withdrawn when the killing started (Anyone remember Srebenica?)
There was a strong stench of French complicity at the time. They were allies of the Hutu regime and it appeared that the UN didn't want to upset the French who had a good few troops out there.
It was left to the new Tutsi-lead army to stop the killing. The French/UN forces on the Rwandan border let the fleeing murderers past and then stopped the new Rwandan army following them. In effect, the murderers were offered protection by the UN and the French in particular and the victims were offered a blind eye.

BUT it's nothing like Iraq. Much as Sadaam had murdered 10's, maybe100's thousands in the past he wasn't engaged in wholesale genocide during the past 10 years.
We went to war to remove his nuclear warheads, mustard gas, anthrax, etc etc didn't we? Or was it his oil we wanted to remove?
The West wasn't bothered at the time he actually gassed the Kurds or slaughtered The southern Shia and Marsh Arabs, in fact western Governments were noticeably silent on the matter. The main critics were the same people who opposed the US/UK invasion of Iraq last year