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IdaBriggs

(10,559 posts)
7. Her husband allowed it/chose not to interfere.
Wed May 11, 2016, 11:25 PM
May 2016

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.

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