{{The Rector of the National University of Rwanda, Silas Lwakabamba has criticized former UN secretary General Kofi Annan who failed to use his role as UN representative to stop a genocide that killed more than one million ethnic Tutsis in 1994 in Rwanda.}}<\/p>\n
Lwakabamba\u2019s expressed his views published in the JeuneAfrique magazine November 5, 2012.<\/p>\n
Kofi Annan is currently involved in a public relations campaign to promote his new biography. <\/p>\n
Lwakabamba noted it is worth to recall the central role Kofi Annan played in blocking a UN preventive action to prevent the genocide in Rwanda which claimed a million lives of ethnic Tutsis between April and July 1994.<\/p>\n
Lwakabamba asked what would have happened if Kofi Annan had chosen a different path noting that he could have turned his vast network of journalists and opinion leaders to force the world to see what was about to happen.<\/p>\n
He said Annan\u2019s moral defeat and professional guilt before the tragedy that took place under his eyes remains undeniable.<\/p>\n
Lwakabamba criticized Anna\u2019s recent appointment as special envoy to Syria seemed unreasonable stating that it was difficult to imagine a candidate unskilled as Kofi Annan to be considered for an assignment to prevent crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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