Posted on 06/06/2014 12:44:36 PM PDT by robowombat
WASHINGTON On April 12, 1994, six days after a plane carrying Rwandas 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. Albrights 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 When most of the United Nations force was withdrawn shortly afterward, leaving the violence almost completely unchecked, the crisis rapidly escalated into one of historys most grimly efficient genocides, with some 800,000 people killed in less than 100 days.
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bump.
Clinton skull pile.
This would have been treated like the Holocaust if there were a Bush in the White House
The Clintons & Madeleine hate Black Folk!
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
> six days after a plane carrying Rwandas 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.
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.
Dude, this was like, 20 years ago! /sarc
Prolly never see these........
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