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USAcommitteeX · 04-06-04, 10:16 PM

The government wants to dignify the memory of those killed
Rwanda is marking the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide.
The slaughter was triggered by the shooting down of a plane with Rwanda's Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana onboard on 6 April 1994.

Along with the Jewish Holocaust, it is one of the worst atrocities of the last century.

Ahead of ceremonies to mark the event, the former UN commander in Rwanda said Western states were "criminally responsible" for the genocide.

Romeo Dallaire Head of UN peacekeepers in 1994
Canadian General Romeo Dallaire said France, which led the small international peacekeeping force at the time of the genocide, the UK and the US in particular did not care enough to stop the killing.

"It's up to Rwanda not to let others forget they are criminally responsible for the genocide," he told a genocide conference in Kigali on his first visit to the country since 1994.

"There is no country today... which can wash its hands of Rwandan blood just by saying sorry."

Hutu extremists unleashed a genocide in which 800,000 people were murdered in one hundred days.

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USAcommitteeX Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 1,219	Rwanda marks genocide anniversary The government wants to dignify the memory of those killed Rwanda is marking the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide. The slaughter was triggered by the shooting down of a plane with Rwanda's Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana onboard on 6 April 1994. Along with the Jewish Holocaust, it is one of the worst atrocities of the last century. Ahead of ceremonies to mark the event, the former UN commander in Rwanda said Western states were "criminally responsible" for the genocide. Romeo Dallaire Head of UN peacekeepers in 1994 Canadian General Romeo Dallaire said France, which led the small international peacekeeping force at the time of the genocide, the UK and the US in particular did not care enough to stop the killing. "It's up to Rwanda not to let others forget they are criminally responsible for the genocide," he told a genocide conference in Kigali on his first visit to the country since 1994. "There is no country today... which can wash its hands of Rwandan blood just by saying sorry." Hutu extremists unleashed a genocide in which 800,000 people were murdered in one hundred days.