Editorial Rwandan Genocide update

3 years ago
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Did a black box of the Rwandan air disaster which sparked the 1994 genocide contain exonerating evidence for five senior French officers accused of aiding the genocide? Without knowing how or who, it was decided officially that missiles had shot down the aircraft. The black box was recovered shortly after the incident and sent to UN HQ in New York by diplomatic pouch. There it was filed. This allowed the architects of the genocide (Including Annan?) to blame Tutsi 'forces' for the atrocity which engulfed them when the missing black box may have shown the tragedy was not a missile strike. The black box was discovered ten years later and authorities who examined it said it was not exculpatory of the incident and was not the black box of the incident. Which sounds like bureaucratic code for saying the box did not contain what the authorities wanted to hear. Either it was not the black box of the incident, or it did not say what the conspirators wanted it to say.

At the time, in 1994, Bill Clinton was being beaten up for being the failure he is. Clinton got saved in 1994 when Newt Gingrich and GOP took Congress and turned America around. Rwanda happened before then, and Clinton was desperate not to interfere in Africa, or Europe. Clinton ceded authority to the UN in Rwanda and to NATO in Serbia. In each case Clinton's leadership increased violence for innocent victims, like Tutsis caught in a Hutu civil war and Yugoslavs in a fractious Serbian escalation. UN peacekeepers went into Rwanda late, while NATO started bombing targets, like Serbian command tents which had been forewarned.

At the time, France had supplied Rwanda militarily, and now senior officers are being targeted for what was political policy. When the left wing run government, it sucks to be in service.

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