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April 8, 2014

Ban Ki-moon: "We Should Have Done Much More" to Stop Rwanda Genocide 
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Rwanda has begun a week of mourning to mark the 20th anniversary of the
Rwandan genocide, when 800,000 people were killed over the course of 100
days. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke at Monday's commemoration
in Kigali.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: "On my first visit to the Kisozi
memorial, I heard and felt the silence of death. The silence of all
those lost and the silence of the international community in your hours
of greatest need. Many United Nations personnel and others showed
remarkable bravery, but we could have done much more, we should have
done much more."

Click here for our full coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan
genocide, including the Clinton administration's refusal to call it a
genocide at the time.

 

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