Remember Rwanda - Defeat Clinton

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Sir Winston Churchill.

My daughter recently asked her MMU high school history teacher why no one talked about the 1994 Rwanda Genocide during the 2008 Presidential campaign.  “It's a private matter", he said.   My daughter and I thought that the Rwanda Genocide should be remembered for the same reasons as the Holocaust. For those who forgot a tragedy many would like to forget, let's recap.

On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down and government-backed Hutu extremists began a planned slaughter of Rwanda's Tutsi population. Most of the killing was done by roving bands of thugs who would surround Tutsis and hack them to death.

Over 800,000 blacks were butchered at a murder rate 5 times the Holocaust.

The Hutus killed so many that narrow parts of Kagera River clogged with bloated hacked body parts. Romeo Dallaire, commander of UN Rwanda, described how one Hutu thug threw a Tutsi baby down a well. When the Hutu heard the baby crying, he threw rocks down the well until the crying stopped. Churches were found with piles of corpses 6 ft high inside. Another report said a Hutu mayor gathered 45,000 Tutsis at a college for "shelter" only to slaughter them all within four days.

Try to imagine, if you can, 45,000 people killed in four days.

What was Clinton's response to this madness? Use those famous political skills to rally support among the American people? Nope – the Clintons thought if they didn't call it genocide, the US might avoid its UN obligation to intervene under the 1948 Genocide Convention. They admitted “acts of genocide” have occurred, but insisted it was not technically genocide. Incredibly, they succeeded.

In 1999, a UN report said “A force numbering 2,500 should have been able to stop…” the killing. The US has a proud tradition of using its super power to step in. We’ve stopped aggression by Hitler, Japan, Soviet Union, Saddam, etc… However, the US, led by Bill Clinton, failed in Rwanda.

My daughter and I would like to see a woman president – but not Hillary. There must be accountability and justice for the murdered victims of Rwanda. Madeline Albright was promoted to Secretary of State, Kofi Annan was promoted to U.N. Secretary-General, Bill was re-elected in 1996 and now Hillary wants to be President – even though they let hundreds of thousands die to protect their careers.

This is not justice - it is the opposite of justice.

Ironically, Bill was later crowned "nation's first black President" and honored by the Congressional Black Caucus. Recently, over 60 black Baptist ministers announced their support for Hillary and civil rights leader Andrew Young said Bill was "blacker than Obama because Bill's been with more black women".

How can a civil-rights leader overlook Clinton’s failure to stop the slaughter of 800,000 blacks but pay attention to the race of who sleeps with the former President?

Hillary often says her First Lady experience sets her apart. She’s right, if Barack was married to the leader of the free world, and that leader did not intervene to stop genocide in Rwanda (black Africans) but did stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo (white Europeans) Barack would have spoke up – big time.

The Clintons failed their UN obligation to stop one of mankind’s worst genocides.  No amount of African charity work or Iowa newspaper endorsements can make up for that. 

Now that you know the truth, will you “hurry off as if nothing ever happened?”