WASHINGTON (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that such mass atrocities and genocides as those happening 17 years ago in Rwanda must never happen again. (more…)
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Obama says ‘Rwanda genocide must never happen again’
Posted: April 13, 2011 in NewsTags: 1994, genocide, Obama, Rwanda, Washington
The Paradox of Early Warning
Posted: January 30, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: 1994, Early warning, Foreign policy, genocide, Hutu, James Miskel, New York, paradox, Paris, Refugees, Rwanda, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi, UNHCR, Violence, Warning, Washington
By James F. Miskel, July 4, 1997
The horror that has in recent months re-engulfed the region along the Rwanda-Burundi-Zaire (RBZ) border ought to be an icy splash in the face of advocates of early warning systems for humanitarian emergencies. Why? Because even though the idea of an early warning system seems to have been widely accepted as conceptually sound, early warning data about the RBZ crisis has been largely ignored. (more…)
U.S Intelligence Warned Early of Genocide in Rwanda
Posted: December 29, 2010 in Evidence MaterialTags: CIA, Failure, genocide, George Bush, Hutu, Intelligence, Rwanda, Warning, Washington
By Jim Lobe–Inter Press Service–April 12, 2004
According to newly declassified documents released by the independent National Security Archive (NSA), President Bill Clinton’s somewhat indirect 1998 apology to Rwandans over Washington’s failure to act to stop the mass killings until it was too late was at best disingenuous, and more likely a deliberate distortion of what he knew and when he knew it. (more…)
Word games in Washington as blood flowed in Rwanda
Posted: December 28, 2010 in Evidence MaterialTags: Alan Elsner, Atlantic Monthly, Blood, genocide, Holocaust, Hutu, Reuters, Rwanda, U.S. State Department, Washington
Reuters April 14, 2004
Reuters correspondent Alan Elsner recalls how the U.S. State Department chose semantics over action as slaughter engulfed Rwanda in 1994. (more…)
Shame: Rationalizing Western Apathy on Rwanda
Posted: December 19, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Alan Kuperman, Alison De Forges, Apathy, genocide, Rwanda, Shame, State Department, Tutsi, Washington, Western countries
Alison L. Des Forges and Alan J. Kuperman — Published in May/June 2000 issue of the Foreign Affairs
ALAS, WE KNEW
Alan J. Kuperman plays word games when he asserts that President Clinton could not have known of the “attempted genocide” of Tutsi in Rwanda until April 20, 1994 — two weeks into the slaughter — because the press, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the U.N. did not call it a genocide (“Rwanda in Retrospect,” January/February 2000). (more…)
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