Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Samantha Power revient sur le génocide rwandais et sur les valses-hésitations des dirigeants des grandes puissances et leur absence de volonté d'agir pour arrêter le massacre:http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/09/power.htm

Extrait: " In reality the US did much more than fail to send troops. It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It refused to use its technology to jam radio broadcasts that were a crucial instrument in the coordination and perpetuation of the genocide. And even as, on average, 8,000 Rwandans were being butchered each day, U.S. officials shunned the term "genocide," for fear of being obliged to act. The United States in fact did virtually nothing "to try to limit what occurred." Indeed, staying out of Rwanda was an explicit U.S. policy objective. "

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