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"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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"Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide."
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"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."
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"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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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."
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"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."
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"But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information."
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"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today."
Change

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

"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."
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"The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador."
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