Rwandan-genocide Quote by Naomi Benaron

“The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.”

— John Rucyahana

“In my heart of hearts I knew I was wrong. The World Cup was about to begin in the United States. The planet was…

— Boubacar Boris Diop

“The people of Rwanda were not an insignificant black mass living in abject poverty in a place of no consequence. They were individuals like…

— Roméo Dallaire

“Pastor Philippe to Jason Stearns: I asked him whom he blamed for their deaths. He shrugged. "There are too many people to blame. Mobutu…

— Jason K. Stearns

“A small country like Rwanda is not ready for the expansion that its leader seeks, it should follow the wise advice of the Spartans,…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure…

— Stephen Kinzer

“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are…

— Chris Bojolian

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

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

“Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit…

— Samantha Power

“I said it before and I shall say it again: Coming to Africa was a bad idea!”

— Randall Allen Dunn

“What if I can't save Congo, but I try anyway? Would it be better to do nothing? Did he abolitionists really think they could…

— Lisa Shannon