500,000 people died and all they got was this moment of silence
Annan, the ineffectual, has asked for a worldwide moment of silence to remember the 500,000 Rwandans who died during the 1994 genocide. Ten years later, we get a remembrance.
Annan, who was head of U.N. peacekeeping at the time of the genocide that killed more than 500,000 people, told a memorial conference on the genocide that most of the deaths could have been prevented if the international community had acted swiftly.
“But the political will was not there, and nor were the troops,” he said in opening remarks to the conference.
The conference came about a week before the 10-year anniversary of the genocide, which targeted mainly minority Tutsis and politically moderate members of the Hutu majority. Annan said he backed a Rwandan call for a worldwide minute of silence at 12 p.m. local time in every country around the world on April 7.
Annan has expressed his regret over Rwanda in the past, but rarely so contritely.
“I believed that I was doing my best, but I realized after the genocide that there was more that I could and should have done to sound the alarm and rally support,” Annan said.
And somehow the international community is supposed to be taken seriously?
March 29th, 2004 at 2:39 pm
What would you suggest?
March 30th, 2004 at 12:53 am
That miserable, self-serving, cocksucking, motherfucking life-hating bastard. Those fucking asshole shitheads who run the United Nations WOULD NOT let the FUCKING Belgians PUT A goddamned STOP TO IT!! Jesus Christ, the Belgian commander had 5,000 troops and could have stopped it but the United nations didn’t want to “ESCALATE” the war. 500,000 died because the UN was worried about “escalation.” Damn him and the whole damned United Nations to hell. Damn them to fucking hell.
March 30th, 2004 at 6:44 am
Too bad the US didn’t have this, we don’t need the UN attitude back then, no?