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