From: "Jeff Wood", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Craig wrote:
"Perhaps someone should remind Robin Cook and his erstwhile colleagues at
the
UN that, in the last recorded case of genocide, in Rwanda, the large
majority of the 1 million or so people murdered were beaten to death with
sticks or cut to pieces with machetes or similar heavy duty knives."
I don't know about the proportions of murders by machetes and so on, though
I recall a TV programme which showed long range film, shot by a Frenchman I
think, of some poor sod being chopped up while folk passed by, hardly paying
attention.
According to a report in the Observer of London some time in the past few
months, a good number of deaths were inflicted using the AK. The arms were
supplied to the Hutus by Egypt, and dealings were conducted by the Egyptian
Foreign Ministry. The Foreign Minister at the time was a fellow called
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, later Secretary-General of the United Nations.
This is not to contradict Jim's point, but to expand it a little in the
direction of political responsibility, which now extends to the civil war in
the Congo, made incomparably worse by the involvement of the genocidal Hutus
driven out of Rwanda .
Yours sincerely
Jeff Wood
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The point is that small arms are easy to make, Egypt makes them and
Zimbabwe makes ammo as well. Does Robin Cook seriously expect Robert
Mugabe to follow him?
Steve.
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