US chose to ignore Rwandan genocide Classified papers show Clinton was aware of 'final solution' to

[Baobab]

US chose to ignore Rwandan genocide: Classified papers show Clinton was aware of 'final solution' to eliminate Tutsis

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/31/usa.rwanda


See also:

The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: The Assassination of the Presidents and the Beginning of the "Apocalypse"
April 7, 2004 : http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB119/


The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Information, Intelligence and the U.S. Response
March 4, 2004 : http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB117/


The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994: Evidence of Inaction
August 20, 2001 : http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB53/


The Rwanda "Genocide Fax": What We Know Now
New Documentation Paints Complex Picture of Informant and his Warnings

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB452/

First Publication of "#Rwanda20yrs" project by U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Security Archive
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 452

[choie]

1. Romeo Dallaire, who lead the UN

forces on the ground in Rwanda, expressed nothing but disgust for Clinton and Albright.

[scscholar]

2. So now she's responsible for Rwandan...

in addition to Apartheid? This is getting ridiculous.

[synergie]

4. Everything is her fault, didn't you know?

[IdaBriggs]

7. Her husband allowed it/chose not to interfere.

He later publicly apologized, as did Madeleine Albright.

The dead did not rise.

I referenced this particular point last week. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511911471

"It is appropriate and honorable for the Clinton Administration to acknowledge the United States's failure to respond appropriately to the 1994 genocide, as Secretary Albright did in December and President Clinton did last month. (snip) (T)he West's refusal to suppress the genocide in Rwanda was extraordinarily costly in three ways: first and foremost, it was costly in the terrible loss of hundreds of thousands of Tutsi Rwandan men, women, and children and of the courageous Hutu civilians who sheltered them. A second casualty of the genocide was the image and thus the potential effectiveness of the United Nations and its various organizations. (more at link) -- https://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/190/39203.html

She did not speak out for them - she was as silent about their suffering as Nancy Reagan was about AIDS. To be fair, they and the whole country were dealing with gate this and gate that, so genocide was probably pretty low on their priority list.

[uppityperson]

3. It was a shameful event of Bill Clinton's presidency. So many lives on his head

[synergie]

5. So now Rwanda is the sole responsibility of Bill Clinton?

It's funny how Bernie is never responsible for the people his votes sent to war, or the people his votes imposed sanctions on, or bombed.

[uppityperson]

6. That is rather a wild leap from what I actually said.

[shadowmayor]

8. Did the Catholic Church work with President Clinton?

The Catholic Church has barrels of blood on its hands in Rwanda - especially the murderous Hutu Catholic priests like Seromba and nuns who slaughtered the Tutsi people seeking refuge in Catholic churches. I wonder if the Church pressed the President to take a low key stance on the Final Solution to the Tutsi People as it was called?

[Judi Lynn]

9. Thanks for catching this article and sharing it. n/t