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Rwanda was considered a second...

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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We were not realizing that, wi...

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

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There is a greater fatigue con...

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.

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So this is why I'm always say ...

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

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But at the beginning, our defi...

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

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At a certain time, we have 70,...

At a certain time, we have 70,000 blue helmets with more than 30,000 people working with them, so this never reached the secretary-general.

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A genocide in Africa has not r...

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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The secret of my success is th...

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

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When you have an accident, the...

When you have an accident, they will save their own people, and those who have worked with you or with the NGOs are left. Unfortunately, this happens always. It is not an excuse at all.

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We were not realizing that, wi...

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

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We got involved in the Rwanda ...

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

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There is a greater fatigue con...

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.

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The real problem was not the t...

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?

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The problem is when you are wr...

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

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The failure of the United Nati...

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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The fact that you had disrupti...

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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The change began in Somalia, w...

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace.

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So this is why I'm always say ...

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali 48 quotes

Rwanda was considered a second...

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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It was a mistake. I was wrong,...

It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.

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