An international panel on Friday blamed the U.N. Security Council, the United States, France and the Catholic Church for failing to prevent the slaughter of more than 500,000 Rwandans.
The seven-member panel created by the Organization of African Unity called for the international community - especially those countries that failed to prevent or help stock the 1994 genocide - to pay reparations to Rwanda "in the name of both justice and accountability."
Former Canadian ambassador and panel member Stephen Lewis said:
"It's simply beyond belief that because of Somalia hundreds of thousands of Rwandans needlessly lost their lives."
"I don't know how Madeleine Albright lives with it," he continued.
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