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Global paralysis in the face of large-scale ethnic cleansing in Africa is nothing new. It's how the U.S. and the U.N. responded to the Rwandan genocide a decade ago, in which 800,000 people died. Advocacy groups like the International Crisis Group are urging action "if Darfur 2004 is not to join Rwanda 1994 as shorthand for international shame." Ten years later, "Never Again" is proving a hard promise to keep...
Advocacy groups are particularly frustrated by the United Nations’ silence on the issue after its promises to do more in response to African crises in the wake of the Rwandan genocide...
...though the United States recognized the genocide in the 2002 Sudan Peace Act, aid that Congress promised to Sudan on condition of the resolution of its North-South conflict has not been forthcoming. And despite Bush’s strong statements on the issue during the anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, two months have passed with no new U.S. action...
...commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the United Nations declared yesterday, April 7, to be the first “International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.” The United States—which, along with the rest of the world, sat idly by while 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered—has plenty to reflect upon. History has not looked kindly upon our inaction. In recent years former Administration officials, including Madeline Albright and President Clinton himself, have personally apologized for their failures...
...Smith, a student at Gordon College, said “it was very provocative to hear from Dallaire himself” and that she left with a greater understanding of the Rwandan genocide...