Steve, you, too, left out one important detail.
Rwanda and Burundi are landlocked poor agricultural countries with no vital natural resources like oil, gold, platinum, silver and industrial vital metals like palladium, cobalt, tungsten, tantalum, molybdenum, vanadium and chromium.
If these places were resource rich, you can bet the US, Britain, France and Germany and Russia woukld have interfered. Particularly, the US will want to establish a strategic presence in any resource-rich areas!
If you would take a look at areas around the world which have oil, the US is involved there, more often than not, regardless of whether there is fighting or no fighting there.
Apparently, Rwanda and Burundi were not worth the bother.
I agree with you the big powers had wanted them to die so that the so-called "white men's burden" will be considerably decreased in the aftermath of it all.
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