{{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.}}
Lwakabamba’s expressed his views published in the JeuneAfrique magazine November 5, 2012.
Kofi Annan is currently involved in a public relations campaign to promote his new biography.
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.
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.
He said Annan’s moral defeat and professional guilt before the tragedy that took place under his eyes remains undeniable.
Lwakabamba criticized Anna’s 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.
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