jonivar skullerud wrote:
>Det er fullstendig nytt for meg at "USA/FN" (USA? FN? Begge? hvem, i
>så fall, innenfor USA-systemet og FN-systemet?) har hevdet at
>hendelsene i Rwanda ikke var folkemord. Hvor har KVJ denne
>oppsiktsvekkende opplysningen fra?
Se artikkelutdrag nedenfor.
Clinton-administrasjonen ble instruert om å ikke bruke uttrykket "genocide".
Øistein Holen
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Z-magazine, Stephen Shalom:
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/april96shalom.htm
The Rwanda Genocide
"(...)
One reason that events in Rwanda were characterized as inter-ethnic
killing was because this view fit nicely with Western stereotypes of savage
Africans. (This was, in former New York City mayor Ed Koch's words, “tribal
warfare involving those without the veneer of Western civilization.”) But
another reason was that U.S. officials shared with the interim government
an interest in denying that genocide was taking place. As long as what was
going on in Rwanda was just some mutual and chaotic killing, there was not
much that Washington could be expected to do. Thus, two months after the
genocide began, the Clinton administration was still instructing its officials to
refrain from using the term “genocide.” Not until June 15 did Clinton agree
to use the term, but only because a virtually unanimous
Senate Foreign Relations Committee was about to send him a letter
demanding that he do so.
(...)"
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/rwacia.htm
"Critics Say U.S. Ignored C.I.A. Warnings of Genocide in Rwanda"
New York Times, March 26, 1998.
(...)
On May 3, 1994, while the massacres were raging, President Clinton signed
a major foreign policy order, Presidential Decision Directive 25. It narrowly
defined the national interest in the fate of a small, faraway, unimportant place
like Rwanda, whose collapse would not directly affect the United States or
breach international security. The policy blocked the United States from
acting to stop the killing.
That month, administration spokesmen were instructed not to use the word
"genocide" in referring to Rwanda. The word made it harder
for the United States to explain doing nothing.
Clinton acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that "we did not
immediately call these crimes by their rightful name: genocide." He
used the word 11 times.
(...)
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http://www.news-star.com/stories/032598/new_clinton.html
"Wednesday, March 25, 1998
Clinton to Rwandans: We reacted too slowly to slaughter
(...)
Clinton told the group that "we in the United States and the world
community did not do as much as we could have and should have
done to try to limit what occurred in Rwanda." He repeated his
statement later in a speech to several hundred Rwandans, including
some survivors of the massacre.
"The international community, together with nations in Africa, must
bear its share of responsibility for this tragedy, as well," Clinton said.
"We did not act quickly enough after the killing began. We should
not have allowed the refugee camps to become safe havens for the
killers.
"We did not immediately call these crimes by their rightful name:
genocide," the president said. Under international convention, that
designation would have obliged the world to act.
(...)"
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