UN Apology Instead Of Action
Posted on January 31, 2008
Filed Under Africa, News
When UN apologizes, it usually appears too little and too late, and comes instead of action that this organization should have taken.
Rwanda: United Nations Sorry for Genocide
THE United Nations has acknowledged its failure to quickly intervene as thousands of Rwandans were killed in 1994 genocide.
The world body said it regretted the mistakes that led to the loss of many innocent lives.
“The Rwandan genocide will haunt us as well as the world’s conscience for generations,” UN chief Ban Ki-moon told journalists on Tuesday during his visit to Kigali. He laid a wreath over a mass grave, where some 250,000 people were buried.
I completely disagree with Mr. Secretary General. I don’t think Kofi Annan and Madlenne Albright (US secretary of State at the time of the events) are haunted by this genocide. These two are directly responsible for not stopping this horrible atrocity that took place in 1994.
He also took a swipe at other stakeholders for not playing their part to stem the genocide.
Like his predecessor, Kofi Annan, he says the UN, Security Council, member states and the international media did not pay enough attention to the gathering signs of disaster.
“The 1994 genocide shocked the consciences of the UN, and member Nations have learnt profound lessons from the incident,” Mr Ki-moon, who was head of UN peacekeeping at the time of the genocide, during which a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred in 100 days said.
Mr. Secretary General, you can’t wash your own hands off this, since you are among those who are responsible for it. I hope and pray that you and your predecessor will be brought to justice for this criminal negligence which cost Rwanda so many lives.
And I don’t think the world has learnt anything from it, just as it hasn’t learnt from the Armenian genocide that started in 1915 and the Holocaust during WW2. The world never does. Therefore, the only thing we can expect from the UN - United Useless Nations - is another apology after another genocide, mass murder or holocaust. I don’t think it’s worth paying billions to maintain this organization, since apologies and condemnations, but never a decisive action, are about the only two things it is capable of issuing. In my opinion, this is the most expensive apology the world ever paid for.
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