16 Years and a month ago, on April 29, 1994, Prudence Bushnell, then US Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, called Colonel Theoneste Bagosora, a leading Rwandan military official, warning him of the displeasure of the United States with the ex-FAR on the on-going massacres of Tutsis. A few weeks earlier, just before the assassination of President Habyarimana now blamed on the current Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his ruling Tutsi elite, Ms. Bushnell had written a memorandum pointing to grave violations of human rights, widespread violence, and breakdown in the rule of law in Rwanda. She expressed the concern of seeing the takeover of the Rwandan Government by rogues elements. She recommended that the US Government intervene before it was too late.
Three months later, after massive and systematic massacres, the ethnic majority Hutu government was overthrown by the ethnic minority Tutsi in an orgy of violence the World had never seen since the Holocaust.
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Kagame or the Degeneration of an African New Breed
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