Rwandans blame world for not stopping genocide

Reuters ^ | 4/4/04

[Riley]

Of course, it's never the fault of the people who are actually doing the killing.

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[guitfiddlist]

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, who was head of peacekeeping at the world body during 1994, accepted institutional and personal blame last month for not doing more to prevent the Rwandan slaughter.

He couldn't figure out how to may a profit out of it.

[anniegetyourgun]

Apparently the "first black president" didn't really give a rip about blacks who couldn't vote for him.

[Bismarck]

Nice... so these morons blame "the world" for their own actions? They deserve the 2004 Chutzpah Award. That's as ridiculous as a rapist blaming his victim for looking sexy.

[Cboldt]

Rwanda is an example of what can happen to an unarmed populace.

[Ciexyz]

Blame Clinton and Madeleine Not-bright, it happened on their watch.

[joan]

Rwanda is an example of what can happen to an unarmed populace

...while the other side has been heavily armed, promoted, and trained by an outside country which is much larger, richer and powerful. France heavily backed Hutu power.

[areafiftyone]

Kinda sounds like the Democreeps doesn't it. It's always someone else's fault.

[headsonpikes]

Halliburton, George Bush,... connect the dots.

Bush knew.

(/sarc)

[b4its2late]

Rwandans criticised the outside world's failure

There's no hope for Rwanda....

It's very obvious. They're all democrats.

[John Jorsett]

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, who was head of peacekeeping at the world body during 1994, accepted institutional and personal blame last month for not doing more to prevent the Rwandan slaughter.

The U.N.'s Bill Clinton. Bet he won't resign either. There are a few things going on in Zimbabwe right now that you might want to have a look at, Kofi. Or are you going to wait until all the whites have been slaughtered or have fled and then issue another apology? And the U.N. wants us to turn Iraq over to them. Fat chance.

[68skylark]

Rwandans blame world for not stopping genocide

This is such a strange headline it could have come from the Onion. Rwandans are telling the world that we're not moral enough, not compassionate enough? That's breathtaking.

[Porterville]

It's actually the UN, the french, and Belgium's who are responsible for inaction.

[Porterville]

Survivors Sue UN for "Complicity" in Rwanda Genocide

Foreign Affairs Breaking News News Keywords: UN COWARDS, GENOCIDE COLLABORATORS

Source: Independent

Published: 11 Jan 2000 Author: Karen MacGregor Posted on 01/11/2000 05:50:37 PST by davide

The United Nations is being sued, for the first time in its history, for alleged complicity in the crime of genocide. Lawyers are instituting a case on behalf of two Rwandan women whose families died during the 1994 genocide in which 800,000, mostly Tutsi people, were slaughtered by Hutus.

The women, the widow of a former Rwandan supreme court judge and the sister of a Tutsi former cabinet minister, accuse UN soldiers who were meant to defend their families of either handing them over to their killers or running away.

They are being represented by the former South Australian crown prosecutor Michael Hourigan, who quit his job as an investigator with the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in disgust at UN inaction and barriers to his investigation, and also by the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, a fellow Australian.

Mr Hourigan, who works for a US law firm, told the Melbourne Age that genocide had been committed against Rwandans in the presence of a UN force, and that the murders in question were "caused by the cowardice, negligence and bungling of UN forces".

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'Explosive' leak on Rwanda genocide

Foreign Affairs News Source: National Post Published: 3/1/00 Author: Steven Edwards Posted on 03/06/2000 10:47:48 PST by Sandy Informants told UN investigators they were on squad that killed Rwanda's president -- and a foreign government helped.

UNITED NATIONS - Three Tutsi informants have revealed to the United Nations that they were part of an elite strike team that assassinated the Hutu president in 1994, shedding new light on an event that triggered the genocide of at least 500,000 people in Rwanda.

The informants told UN investigators in 1997 that the killing of president Juvenal Habyarimana was carried out "with the assistance of a foreign government" under the overall command of Paul Kagame, now the vice-president of Rwanda.

The April 6, 1994, assassination proved to be a flashpoint in central Africa in 1994, igniting a bloodletting in which extremist Hutus targeted Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

The report, obtained by the National Post, suggests a critical ...http://freerepublic.com/forum/a38c3fd547ec4.htm

[VOA]

Of course, it's never the fault of the people who are actually doing the killing.

You are correct in pointing that -- at the same time you should catch the PBS FrontLine
special on the Rwanda genocide that aired this past week (some stations rebroadcast).

In addition to Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, and Madeleine Albright as enablers of
the killers...there was Richard Clarke (who refused to be interviewed).

Among other interesting things about the show, in some cases one or two UNARMED
UN guards saved buildings-full of Tutsis by simply informing bands of unarmed Hutus
that they couldn't come in and kill the people under their watch.

Not that I'm for endless "policeman of the world" work, but a couple thousand UN
(=US, Canadian, French, German, etc.) troops probably would have saved countless thousands.

[VOA]

France heavily backed Hutu power.

I can't remember the source, but suppossedly some French official told his
Hutu contact "just don't kill them in front of the cameras" when the
genocide started to be publicized.

[Enterprise]

"one or two UNARMED UN guards saved buildings-full of Tutsis by simply informing bands of unarmed Hutus that they couldn't come in and kill the people under their watch."

That almost sounds like a Monty Python scenario.

"I'm sorry, but you simply can't come in and start killing people on our watch. It's not in our contract. Now go away."