Fine—don’t believe me then. But at least listen to someone who’s been there.
The Real Reason Kofi Annan Must Go: Another interesting perspective today on Kofi Annan and the United Nations—particularly his leadership of it. And it’s important to note that this perspective is from someone who supports the UN and its ideals.
It did not have to happen. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, the U.N.‘s force commander in Rwanda, sent Mr. Annan a series of desperate faxes including one warning that Hutu militias “could kill up to 1,000” Tutsis “in 20 minutes” and others pleading for authority to protect vulnerable civilians. But at the crucial moment, Mr. Annan ordered his general to stand down and to vigorously protect, not genocide victims, assembled in their numbers waiting to die, but the U.N.‘s image of “impartiality.”
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Some 3,300 miles directly north from Kigali is the town of Srebrenica, a grim, shell-pocked village on the border of Republika Srpska and Serbia. A few kilometers down a decrepit road is a sprawling abandoned battery factory. Ten years ago, thousands of Muslim civilians concentrated here seeking shelter at a U.N. base. But Serb militias separated the men and boys from their women and put them on buses. Armed Blue Helmeted U.N. Peacekeepers—tasked under Mr. Annan’s leadership to protect Srebrenica’s civilians in this U.N.-declared “Safe Area”—watched passively. The women of Srebrenica never saw their men again.
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