Boutros Boutros-Ghali (original) (raw)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali United Nations (UN)

[2009] Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Unvanquished: A U.S.-U.N. Saga (New York: Random House, 1999), 129-41; here 138, 135. According to Robin Philpot, Boutros-Ghali told him on the record that �The genocide in Rwanda was 100 percent the responsibility of the Americans!� See the Introduction to Philpot, Rwanda 1994.
.......Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali also wanted to increase UN troop strength, and complained bitterly in his memoirs about the �obstruction� caused by the Clinton administration: �The U.S. effort to prevent the effective deployment of a UN force for Rwanda succeeded, with the strong support of Britain,� he wrote; the Security Council �meekly followed the United States� lead.�47(We may recall that Samantha Power also claimed that the United States �looked away� when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, when in fact the United States gave Indonesia the go-ahead, the arms to carry out the invasion, and diplomatic protection in the United Nations. Whenever the United States colludes in a genocidal process, Power pretends that U.S. guilt, at worst, comes from remaining a mere �bystander�; never from acting as an accomplice, let alone a perpetrator.)