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To: Dennis O'Bell who wrote (81483)	3/12/2003 10:18:31 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The story in the Atlantic I linked to you, which is based on declassified US government documents, shows that the US government deliberately avoided labeling the events as "genocide" because the US would have been legally obligated to do something about it. Even stranger, the US persuaded the UN to withdraw peacekeeping troops from Rwanda, even though we actually had no troops there. This was done, apparently, because the rampaging Hutus had killed some of the Belgian UN peacekeeping troops.