Learning from the past
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned that a Rwandan style genocide may be in the making in the Sudan (yes, that Kofi Annan):
The U.N. chief issued his warning in a speech in Geneva on the 10th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide in which about 800,000 died. He left no doubt he feared something similar might be under way in west Sudan, where U.N. officials say “ethnic cleansing” is carried out.
“The international community cannot stand idle,” declared Annan, who has himself acknowledged more should have been done to halt the orgy of killing in Rwanda in 1994.
“The risk of genocide remains frighteningly real.”
Annan said humanitarian workers and human rights experts needed to be given full access to Darfur, a western region in Africa’s biggest country, to administer aid to hundreds of thousands of people driven from their homes, many into neighboring Chad.
April 7th, 2004 at 2:32 pm
The real question is: how can this be blamed on Bush?