Samantha Power
[2009]
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System by Edward
S. Herman and David Peterson
According to this same myth structure, “The United States did almost nothing to
try to stop [the Hutu genocide],” in Samantha Power’s view, but instead “stood
on the sidelines” as “bystanders to genocide.” But this is doubly false. What
the United States and its Western allies (Britain, Canada, and Belgium) really
did was to sponsor the U.S.-trained Kagame; support his invasion of Rwanda from
Uganda and the massive ethnic cleansing prior to April 1994; weaken the Rwandan
state by forcing an economic recession and the RPF’s penetration of the
government and throughout the country; and then press for the complete removal
of UN troops. They did this because they didn’t want UN troops to stand in the
way of Kagame’s conquest of the country, even though Rwanda’s Hutu authorities
were urging the dispatch of more UN troops.
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.”
(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.)
[2007] BLOOD
DIAMOND DOUBLETHINK & DECEPTION
OVER THOSE WORTHLESS LITTLE ROCKS OF DESIRE
by Rick Hines & Keith
Harmon Snow Tempelsman’s
affiliation with Robert Rotberg at the CFR explains the absence of any mention
of Tempelsman or his diamond interests in the Kimberly-related conferences,
policies and papers that came out of the Kennedy School. Seven
Harvard professionals, including Michael Ignatief, and Samantha Power, who
won a Pulitzer for her whitewash of the U.S.-backed coup in Rwanda, took
part in the 2001 Kennedy School conference that led to Diamonds in Peace and
War, the report that whitewashed Maurice Tempelsman’s involvement.
Samantha Power, A Problem from
Hell: America in the Age of Genocide, 2002.
[2009 Jan] Ben Affleck, Rwanda,
and Corporate Sustained Catastrophe by Keith Harmon Snow (Part 2)
Another high profile mover and shaker who helps legitimize the Kagame
regime is Harvard University doctor Paul Farmer, who moved his family to Rwanda
in 2008 and became a citizen there. Farmer’s Partner’s in Health project has
received millions of dollars from the Clinton Foundation and Clinton HIV/AIDS
programs—money rinsed from the blood diamonds and indigenous genocides in
Botswana, Sierra Leone, Angola, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa and Congo. Maurice
Tempelsman, the Clinton/Kennedy family diamond broker, Democratic Party sponsor
and an architect of covert operations in Africa, is the Chairman of the board of
Harvard University’s euphemistically named AIDS Institute; HAI is partnered with
the US Military HIV Research Program.
Paul Farmer is also linked to the
Kagame regime’s network in Boston, where agent’s of the Kagame regime operate an
intelligence cell used to identify, repress and criminalize any Rwandan people
who in any way challenge the criminality or injustice of the current regime.
Paul Farmer wrote an excellent book
on structural violence titled Pathologies of Power. In the
introduction, Farmer discusses Rwanda and, for example, he comments on the
‘blinkered analyses’ by aid workers in “most settings where massive human rights
violations are about to occur.”
“How, one wonders incredulously,”
Farmer asked, “could anyone working on behalf of the Rwandan poor [before 1994]
have failed to anticipate the oncoming cataclysm?”
How, one wonders incredulously,
could anyone working on behalf of the Rwandan poor today have failed to
challenge or distance themselves from Kagame’s Rwanda and its terrorist
enterprises, in Congo at the very least, and instead works with the regime and
its agents?
Farmer cites the work of
Samantha Power, about how the Clinton administration knowingly let genocide
in Rwanda happen, as opposed to playing the active role it did in backing a
covert coup d’etat and Hutu genocide. This fabricated ‘bystanders to genocide’
thesis, intentionally obtuse, won Samantha Power—a founder-director of Harvard’s
highly biased Carr Center for Human Rights—a Pulitzer Prize. Farmer’s additional
references and citations regarding ‘genocide in Rwanda’ are equally misinformed,
examples of propaganda that intentionally blinds people.