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Article: Annan says United Nations failed Rwanda
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- May 8, 1998
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KARIN DAVIES Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-08-1998
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) _ U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told Rwandans Thursday that the world had failed them by not preventing the 1994 genocide, but his angry hosts said his remarks fell far short of an acceptable apology.
Later, the country's top officials snubbed the U.N. chief by failing to show up for a reception. A presidential spokesman called Annan's speech ``extremely arrogant, insensitive and insulting to the Rwandan people.''
Annan traveled to Rwanda to mend relations between the United Nations and the central African country where Hutu extremists butchered at least 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus in a ...
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