[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.)