Declassified U.N. Cables Reveal Turning Point in Rwanda Crisis of 1994 (The Smoking Gun)

NY Slime ^ | June 3, 2014 | Mark Ladner

[robowombat]

WASHINGTON — On April 12, 1994, six days after a plane carrying Rwanda’s president was shot down, setting off a wave of killings, Madeleine K. Albright, the American ambassador to the United Nations at the time, sent a cable to the State Department proposing that the United States take the lead in pushing to withdraw most of the United Nations peacekeeping force operating there.

Ms. Albright’s tersely worded cable, recently declassified, starkly captures the reluctance of the United States to respond to the deepening crisis in Rwanda. When most of the United Nations force was withdrawn shortly afterward, leaving the violence almost completely unchecked, the crisis rapidly escalated into one of history’s most grimly efficient genocides, with some 800,000 people killed in less than 100 days.

[robowombat]

A Clintonian triangulation. In the New Orleans T-P this appeared as a two column short at the bottom of page A-12. If it were Bush and Cheyney where would it have been.

[PieterCasparzen]

bump.

[Darksheare]

Clinton skull pile.

[GeronL]

This would have been treated like the Holocaust if there were a Bush in the White House

[TexasCajun]

The Clintons & Madeleine hate Black Folk!

[silverleaf]

Lookie who was Bill’s Africa Advisor.... Susan liar-for-hire Rice

AS I recall she counseled him to not use the term “genocide” because it would make his crappy impotent “policy” look bad to the Black folks back home for his reelection

[SunkenCiv]

> six days after a plane carrying Rwanda’s president was shot down, setting off a wave of killings, Madeleine K. Albright, the American ambassador to the United Nations at the time, sent a cable to the State Department proposing that the United States take the lead in pushing to withdraw most of the United Nations peacekeeping force operating there.

Thanks robowombat.

[BobL]

I wished she could have shown this level of restraint in the former Yugoslavia. She got this one right...we had no business there either.

[workerbee]

Dude, this was like, 20 years ago! /sarc

[Osage Orange]

These emails are held by the Clinton presidential library, Mr. Blanton said, but the White House has not signed off on a declassification request he submitted nine months ago. “The American declassification system does not have any rationality built into it,” he said.

Prolly never see these........

[Dahoser]

Dude, this was like, 20 years ago! /sarc

And that is exactly what the Clintonista response will be when it's raised—their standard, "That's been out there. It's old news." Look for dumps like this to continue as they establish other embarrassing or damaging points as more old news.