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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they’d accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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Country People Recieve World
It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.
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Knowledge Long Rights
It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.
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Culture Encourage Knowledge Respect
The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
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Stealth Violence Way
We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
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Agents Destruction World
So this is why I’m always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
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Behinds Country People Rwanda World
For us, genocide was the gas chamber – what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
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Able Country People Realizing World
In Yugoslavia, I’d asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces… Nobody wanted to send troops.
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Prime Troops Yugoslavia
I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.
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Believe Having Patience Problem
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
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Predecessor Success Used
But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it’s happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing – In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.
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Country People Views World
There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
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Problem Today Years
Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands the tasks of creating productive employment, overcoming poverty and achieving social integration.
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Creating Hands Mean
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they’d accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
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Class Country Neighbour People World
Water will be more important than oil this century
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Important Oil Water