Word: rwandans
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Romeo Dallaire, the former force commander for the United Nations mission to Rwanda, last night condemned the U.N.’s and United States’ failure to intervene in the Rwandan genocide...
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...
Dallaire and Barker denied that Kofi Annan, the current U.N. secretary general who headed the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations, got off too easily for his failure to act in the Rwandan crisis. Dallaire said Boutros Boutros-Ghali, secretary general at the time, deserved more blame than he received...
...Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians." Navanethem Pillay, presiding judge of a U.N. criminal tribunal, convicting Ferdinand Nahimana of using a Rwandan radio station to incite the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority...
...all—at the first sign of casualties. This concern echoed throughout his presidency. It led to his ordering the USS Harlan County’s retreat from a thuggish mob in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; it paralyzed him into inaction on the Rwandan genocide; it muddled his response to ethnic cleansing in Bosnia; it influenced his appeasement of the murderous Foday Sankoh in Sierra Leone; and it dissuaded him from pursuing a “boots on the ground” strategy to defeat Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. In short, the specter of Somalia ultimately ruined Bill...