Bill Clinton-Remarks to the People of Rwanda (March 25, 1998)

[gumboots44]

Let me be clear - Bill Clinton did not give a fuck about people in Rwanda. AT ALL.

[OhTheAli]

"The United States has no friends, it has interest. It is not interested in Rwanda. And the United States has no interest in Rwanda. And we are not interested in sending young American marines to bring them back in coffins." Quote from the documentary the ghost of Rwanda.. I had no idea that in the military, dying was not in the job description!

[OhTheAli]

Selfish ass! After all evidence brought to his attention and he still said there was no evidence that it was a "genocide". When asked why he didnt help, he blamed it on his advisers. Am not pointing fingers, but as the U.S president, if he offered help, i feel that even the UN countries would have chipped in. ooh, wait! I am pointing fingers!

[Hperman09]

A lot of you here need to stop pointing fingers who's fault is it or not. As i remember, the UK/France blocked Belgians attempt to send more peacekeepers, France armed the Hutis, South Africa prevented most African nations to help, and the U.S. submit a resolution to pull out. The UK/France/China/Russia one of the permanent powerhouse, could have easily vetoed it but most of them agreed to withdraw.

This is the failure of international community as a whole, not just one nation and person.

[Blondewithtools]

I am not a fan of Clinton but, he was always very clear about his position of staying out of other countries war. Rwanda was not invaded by another country, the genocide resulted from tribal conflict with it's own people Tutsi and Hutu. Today of course, everyone wants the US out of these countries for fear of WW3. Clinton was also against going into Bosnia...another ethnic tribal genocide. A military power like the US should not be flexing it's  military muscle around the world.

[AriannaStar101]

...Unreal. During the time of the genocide, the US could not even say that it was in fact a genocide but that there were "acts of genocide"..?? 1 MILLION PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN 100 DAYS, and NOW the US and Clinton can say "Oops. Sorry."? Uhm, no. This speech will not bring back any of the innocent people that were killed. WE SHOULD HAVE HELPED BEFORE IT WAS 4 YEARS LATER. WE SHOULD HAVE HAD A VOICE BEFORE IT WAS 4 YEARS LATER. I love my country, but the actions we DID NOT take dissapoint me.

[bersaba]

@AriannaStar101

Whilst I agree with the sentiment, I find attacking Bill Clintion so viciously is missing the point (a little). Bill screwed up, America (and the rest of the world) should have helped, but damn it they weren't the ones actually doing the murdering.

Also from what I understand (though I will admit LARGE ignorance), the victims of the genocide were an invading group in the first place. That doesn't make mass murder correct, but there's a bit of "play with fire u get burnt" here.

[MrBatai]

@AriannaStar101 Of course it's disappointing. No apology or Mea Culpa can make up for the unconscionable loss of life, but his speech, his actions to bring awareness to what happened, and his foundation's support for the genocide memorial in Kigali, which I recently visited, can help in small ways, heal the people of Rwanda and bring greater attention and awareness to this instance and other locations where it is occurring around the world.

[CarlosDCblog]

Bill Clinton is a war criminal that should be brought to justice!

[MrBatai]

@CarlosDCblog Inaction cannot make one a war criminal. If that's the case, we're ALL war criminals as we too stood by and did nothing. If you want to make amends, visit the country, listen to their stories, study what precipitated this madness. Labeling Clinton (and all nations of the UN) as war criminals is misguided.

[jerryvassalla]

I don't understand why he is explaining the genocide to the country who suffered it. What do his words about the world's mistakes mean if the world has not kept their promise to learn from this event?

[487shawn]

What utter garbage! Fuck you Clinton! you didn't want to intervine as you where worried after somalia that the public wouldn't support you this was more about getting re-elected you fuck wad! you even sent missives to canadian government telling them to shut up their fucking general, you ass! then you had madeline albright block all attempts to deal with the situation the blood is on your hands and will be there throughout histroy rot you fucking bastard!

[omegapointil]

Probably didn't intervene because of mining, strategic and precious metals and natural resource interests that never gets talked about and that the entire of "Our Way of Life" rests and depends on. The barrels bottom as survival goes. But he does have an office in Harlem.

[omegapointil]

Probably didn't intervene because of mining, strategic and precious metals and natural resource interests that never gets talked about and that the entire of "Our Way of Life" rests and depends on. The barrels bottom as survival goes.

[rfavro]

Romeo Dallaire was right when he said that the superpowers didn't care about Rwanda. The U.S. was more worried about a repeat of the events in Somalia in 1993 then saving people from a genocide. Dallaire asked for U.S. and other forces to contribute, they refused. Clinton's minced words mean nothing to the hundreds of thousands of people who were massacred because not one country would act to prevent the genocide.

[EasySilence64]

An apology four years later doesn't make for the 1,000,000 lives that were lost in 100 days.....you selfish ass.

[fhdjsahfdjsha]

@EasySilence64 Amen

[FREDFREDBURGER30197]

this is the day and year i was born

[Yiikes87]

sorry isnt good enuf

[HappyRob290374]

At least he admits it.... anyone know if there's any similar recognition from the Belgians on Youtube? I just hope that when he gets that applause, it shouldn't come across as praise for him because he's been big and brave in saying sorry, but that it's because there's a sense of relief and release of anger and a recognition that the "rabbit in the headlights passivity" of the UN during the genocide is being admitted by a Western leader.

[LODRules]

@HappyRob290374 I do Agree with you on the fact that he did say sorry. Unfortunatly there was no rabbit in the headlights passivity at all in anyones reactions. There was simply no will to send soldiers to Rwanda. The means were there as was seen later when the Americans sent sizable forces to Rwanda after the genocide. The U.N voted to pull troops out, to not give Dallaire enough men at the beginning, and in general tied his hands and limited what he could do. They all knew what was going on.

[antekification]

and this jackass got the noble peace prize!

[elviaje26]

@antekification insane

[thomas6012]

fuck ctinton