"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

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"For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem."

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"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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