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…)