So Clinton apologized to Africa? What for, for being Clinton who
genocided Waco and the Balkans?
Let us say Rwanda suicided themselves but if UN sends in soldiers ever,
be sure they are all blacks.
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Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels and United Nations peacekeepers
guard refugees ready for evacuation May 28, 1994 at the airport in the
Rwandan capital Kigali.Genocide report blames West, U.N.Rwanda's
massacre could have been prevented, says OAUASSOCIATED PRESS
� � UNITED NATIONS, July 7 � �In the broadest investigation of
Rwanda's 1994 genocide, an international panel on Friday blamed the U.N.
Security Council, the United States, France and the Catholic Church for
allowing more than 500,000 people to be slaughtered.�
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Rwanda's harvest of death. Images of the 1994 genocide and its aftermath
in the central African republic.
� � � �THE 90-DAY genocide was orchestrated by a small group of
Hutu extremists against the Tutsi minority. More than half a million
Tutsis and thousands of moderate Hutus were killed in a slaughter that
ended when Tutsi-led rebels seized control.
� � � �"A small number of major actors could directly have
prevented, halted, or reduced the slaughter," said the seven-member
panel, established in 1998 by the Organization of African Unity.
� � � �Calling the conclusions "very shocking," former Canadian
Ambassador and panel member Stephen Lewis told a news conference
releasing the report that the French government knew exactly what was
happening and could have prevented the genocide.
� � � �"We repudiate the position of the government of France
� the position that asserts that they had no responsibility," he said.
"There is almost no redemptive feature to the conduct of the government
of France."
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� � � �Lewis called the U.S. role in blocking the U.N. Security
Council from sending an effective military force to halt the genocide
"an almost incomprehensible scar of shame on American foreign policy."
� � � �"I don't know how Madeleine Albright lives with it," he
said. At the time, the U.S. secretary of state was the American
ambassador to the United Nations.
� � � �Rwanda's U.N. Ambassador Joseph Mutaboba said the report
succeeded in "pointing a finger to where it had to be pointed in the
first place � to adequately describe what happened, how it happened,
and why it happened."
� � � �The 318-page report traces the roots of the genocide back
to Rwanda's colonial rulers from Germany, and then Belgium, who along
with Roman Catholic missionaries fostered the belief that the country's
minority Tutsis were superior to its Hutu majority.
� � � �It then links the genocide to current African conflicts.
� � � �The Security Council bears the greatest responsibility in
the genocide because it could have dispatched an international military
force, the report said.
� � � �It said the United States deserves the greatest blame of
the 15 council members because it made sure that no serious military
mission was sent to stop the killings "even after it was known beyond
question that one of the 20th century's greatest tragedies was
unfolding," the panel said.
� � � �The United Nations had a 2,500-strong peacekeeping
mission in the country when the genocide began, but governments pulled
out all but a few hundred troops after 10 Belgian peacekeepers were
killed.
� � � �An independent report on the U.N. role in the genocide,
commissioned by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, concluded in December
that the organization and its members lacked the political will and
resources to prevent or stop the genocide.
� � � �But Friday's report was much more direct.
� � � �"Weeks into the genocide, the Security Council, led by
the U.S., actually voted to reduce the inadequate military mission that
had earlier been authorized for Rwanda," the report said. 'Once a new
(peacekeeping) mission was finally authorized, American stalling tactics
ensured that not one single additional soldier or piece of equipment
reached Rwanda before the genocide had ended.'
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Organization of African Unity � � � �"Later, once a new mission
was finally authorized, American stalling tactics ensured that not one
single additional soldier or piece of equipment reached Rwanda before
the genocide had ended."
� � � �After losing 18 soldiers in Somalia in October 1993, the
United States was largely opposed to the Security Council authorizing
any new serious peacekeeping missions, with or without American
participation, it said.
� � � �The French government is also singled out for failing to
use its "unrivaled influence" with Rwanda's government and military to
denounce ethnic hatred.
� � � �French troops allowed many Rwandan leaders who played a
part in the genocide to escape across the border into Zaire, the report
said. Now many of those leaders are helping fuel the civil war in Congo.
� � � �Like the French government, the Catholic and Anglican
hierarchies were blamed for failing to use "their unique moral position
among the overwhelmingly Christian population to denounce ethnic hatred
and human rights abuses," it said.
� � � �Belgium was cited in the report for insisting that its
soldiers leave Rwanda when the genocide started, knowing "they could
save countless lives if they were allowed to remain."
� � � �Since the genocide, the report noted, President Clinton,
Annan, the prime minister of Belgium and the Anglican church have all
apologized for failing to stop the killings. But France and the Catholic
Church have not yet offered any apology, it said.
� � � �The panel recommended Annan appoint a commission to
determine reparations owed by the international community to Rwanda.
� � � �The seven panel members were Former Botswana President
Ketumile Masire, former Mali President Toumani Toure, former Liberian
minister and presidential candidate Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former Indian
Supreme Court Chief Justice P.N. Bhagwati, Algerian Senator Hocine
Djoudi who was a U.N. ambassador, and Lisbet Palme, head of the Swedish
Committee for UNICEF and widow of assassinated prime minister Olof
Palme.
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