12.03.2003

BELATED JUSTICE

A United Nations tribunal convicted three journalists of genocide for "helping to incite a killing spree by machete-wielding gangs who slaughtered about 800,000 Tutsis in neighboring Rwanda in early 1994."

The New York Times article says a radio station known as Radio Machete broadcast the names and hiding places of ethnic Tutsis and includes the following paragraph.

"The Rwanda genocide is considered the worst ethnic killing since the Holocaust. In 100 days, an estimated 10 percent of the Tutsis in Rwanda were wiped out, along with many moderates among the Hutus, who make up the majority of the population. The efficiency of the killers, who chased down the Tutsis at roadblocks and in the streets with sharpened sticks, nail-studded clubs and grenades, surpassed even that of the Nazis, some historians contend."

Where was the U.S. on this matter? Where was the United Nations during this abomination?

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