Obama taps critic of Clinton's Rwanda handling to head delegation
remembering genocide
Washington Times - 18 hours ago
President Obama on Friday chose envoy Samantha Power, a harsh critic
of President Clinton 's failure to stop the genocide in Rwanda in
1994, to lead a U.S. delegation to mark the 20th anniversary of the
atrocities.
Ms. Power , the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., will travel with other
U.S. representatives to the commemoration ceremony in the central
African nation on April 7. Among others in the delegation will be
Rep. Karen Bass, California Democrat; former Sen. Russell Feingold ,
the State Department
's special representative for the African Great Lakes region and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo ; and Michael Gerson, a former
speechwriter for President George W. Bush and a columnist for
the Washington Post .
The Rwanda Genocide began in April 1994, a mass slaughter of Tutsi and
moderate Hutu in Rwanda by members of the ethnic Hutu majority. Over a
four-month period, an estimated 800,000 or more Rwandans were killed.
Mr. Clinton , who was president at the time, said in Rwanda in 1998
that "we in the United States and the world community did not do as
much as we could have and should have done to try to limit what
occurred."
But Ms. Power wrote in 2001 that Mr. Clinton's supposed apology was
"carefully hedged."
"The United States did much more than fail to send troops," she wrote
in The Atlantic. "It led a successful effort to remove most of the UN
peacekeepers who were already in Rwanda. It aggressively worked to
block the subsequent authorization of UN reinforcements. The United
States in fact did virtually nothing 'to try to limit what occurred.'
In order not to appreciate that genocide or something close to it was
under way, U.S. officials had to ignore public reports and internal
intelligence and debate."
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