Word: rwanda
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During the event, Dallaire discussed his dealings with U.N. bureaucracy and his efforts to “stymie the progress” of the Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu government. The Hutus were the ethnic majority in Rwanda...
...forum featured a seven-minute clip from “Ghosts of Rwanda” in which journalists and Red Cross volunteers recounted how the Rwanda mission was “devoid of support from New York,” where U.N. headquarters is located, and that “everyone knew what was going on in the country...
...said lower-level U.N. bureaucrats had vital information concerning Rwanda, but that the highest level “had other national interests...
...Rwandans were just a cost-benefit equation...a statistic,” Power said. “Their institutional interest was saving the U.N., even when saving the U.N. meant pulling troops out of Rwanda...
...genocide. She added that Richard Clarke—who was then a presidential adviser and who has recently alleged that the Bush administration bungled warnings of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks—“is the only one who’s been honest. Clarke says [Rwanda] wasn’t in our national interest...and if he had to, he would advise the same today...