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To: KLP who wrote (128104)	4/1/2004 4:38:33 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<It took Hutu death squads three months from April 6 to murder about 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus and at each stage accurate, detailed reports were reaching Washington policymakers.>> A little something I read about that was that the Tutsis were taller and had more money than the Hutus. The Hutu liked to hack the feet off of the Tutsis to make them shorter before killing them. The Tutsis would offer money to the Hutus to shoot them instead of hacking them to death. The Hutus would take the money and hack them to death anyway.

To: KLP who wrote (128104)	4/1/2004 6:06:15 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The documents undermine claims by Mr Clinton and his officials that they did not fully appreciate the scale and speed of the killings. "It's powerful proof that they knew," said Alison des Forges, a Human Rights Watch researcher and authority on the genocide. I wonder what Bill Clinton has to say to the NAACP about this? I wonder if they will still consider him an "honorary black man"? Hawk

To: KLP who wrote (128104)	4/2/2004 9:24:09 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

US president Bill Clinton's administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by genocide in April 1994 but buried the information to justify its inaction, classified documents made available for the first time reveal. Did you see the Frontline special on Rwanda last night? One of the saddest things I've ever seen. I hate to rely on one source for information, but it appears that the Frontline piece was probably accurate to a great extent. pbs.org The problems with Rwanda from an American perspective were that US had no interests at stake, the people involved were essentially insignificant by any measure of global politics or economics, and there was no political upside to doing the right thing, but there was certainly a lot of political downside. Visons of Mogadishu danced in Clinton's and Albright's head, though the considerations were totally different. We could have stopped the genocide by flying in a couple of regiments. The cost in the big scheme of things was negligible. The UN was worthless, we were worthless, and now, in retrospect, crocodile tears are being shed everywhere.