Rwanda: Never Say the Word

In 1994, the President Clinton's spokeswoman was talking about "acts of genocide" referring to the genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda. She was not allowed to say the word "Genocide".

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News & Politics

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• Rwanda
• Genocide
• Clinton

[costacv]

I NEED THE ORIGINAL VIDEO OF CHRISTINE SHELLEY SPEAKING!! PLEASE, WHERE CAN I GET IT?!

[AmatekaRwanda]

@costacv

This extract is from "When Good Men Do Nothing" by Steve Bradshaw and Mike Robinson -BBC News Panorama.

[IggyVK]

@Wincow Technically Belgium was the former colonial power, but France was aligned with the Hutu extremists . Not only did they evacuate Hutu power commanders when the RPF took power but they continued to ship weapons to the Interahamwe, the Hutu militia responsible for the vast majority of the killings. All in all, both France and Belgium must shoulder some part of the blame.

[costacv]

@AmatekaRwanda Thank you so much!!! but where can I get that video?? do you have a link or something?

[Wincow]

@nur585 It was belgium you jackass

[Lillymill]

Ah, so the same people weren't quite sure whether 600,000-800,000+ dead Tutsis amounted to the definiton of genocide but only a year later they suddenly began discovering genocides in Balkans, ha?

I guess this is why the initial body count was always inflated - a somewhat convenient whitewash for Rwandan "blunder"

Not to mention that "somehow" both Rwanda and Srebrenica were blamed on French peacekeepers and after some diplomatic pressure, France subsequently rejoined NATO.

[jenseyde]

i have read serveral places that not only did the us not act....it wasnt even seriously considered....

[iansteelmatheson]

and it's not clinton's fault. he didn't initiate the genocide. he isn't racist. the lack of intervention was due to deliberate policy to avoid intervening in something that might have been disastrous for the US and UN. yes of course non-intervention was totally inexcusable. don't blame that on one person. blame the (this is a very abbreviated list) twisting of history + recurring cycles of ethnic violence in Rwanda, economics, global political system, hutu extremists, political opportunism...