"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it……" — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"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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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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27 Quotes by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics
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Water will be more important than oil this century
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The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with…
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We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
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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…
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There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in…
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So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
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We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
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