Clinton Aides Mulled Fallout Of Calling Rwanda Killing 'Genocide'
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by SCOTT NEUMAN
June 06, 2014 5:13 PM ET

Dozens of Hutu tribe refugees walk south of Kigali, in April 1994, to
flee the heavy fighting there between Hutus and Tutsis about a month
before an internal White House email on the possible consequences of
calling the killing in the conflict a genocide.
Jean-March Bouju/AP
President Bill Clinton's administration wondered what the legal
consequences would be if the White House acknowledged that genocide
was occurring in Rwanda in 1994, according to newly public documents.
In a May 26, 1994, email from legal adviser Alan Kreczko to Donald
Steinberg, who handled the Africa portfolio in Clinton's National
Security Council, Kreczko wrote:
"Concluding that genocide has occurred/is occurring in Rwanda does not
create a legal obligation to take particular action to stop it."
Kreczko went on to write that while human rights groups had argued the
contrary, "We would not agree."
"Of course, making such a determination will increase political
pressure to do something about it," he added.
As The Associated Press notes: "The Clinton administration was slow to
react to the mass killings and went to great lengths to avoid calling
the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Tutsi and moderate Hutu
'genocide.' Clinton would later call the U.S. inaction among his
biggest regrets."
In another document made public on Friday, in a practice session for
his 1996 State of the Union speech, the former president railed
against Republicans who he said wanted to shut down the Department of
Commerce because its head, Ron Brown, was black.
"The reason they want to get rid of the Commerce Department is they
are foaming at the mouth that Ron Brown is better than all of those
Republican corporate executives who got those cheeky jobs because they
gave big money to Republican presidential candidates," Clinton told
aides.
"And here is this black guy who is a better secretary of commerce than
anybody since Herbert Hoover, which he was a success at," Clinton
said.
Brown was killed later that year in a plane crash in Croatia.
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Rwanda: May 13 Security Council Infonnals (5 pages)
Grossman, Marc to ltoh, William H. re: Discussion Paper for the.
Deputies Committee on Peacekeeping Options in Rwanda (I page)
Rwanda Options Paper (9 pages)
From Donald Steinberg re: Doug Jehl [partial] (l page)
Security Council Approves Phased UNAMIR Expansion (8 pages)
Rwanda Troop Contributor Meeting and Action Request (3 pages)
Peacekeeping Perspectives, 940512, No. 10 (19 pages)
UN Planning for Rwanda Operation (3 pages)
UN Reacts to PDD-25 (4 pages)
Steinberg, Donald K. to Rice, Susan E. et. al. re: Rwanda TPs (3
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Donald K. Steinberg
FROM: Alan J. Kreczko
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SUBJECT: .Genocid
Don,
( STEINBERG )
Concluding that genocide has occurred/is occurring in Rwanda
does not create a legal obligation to take particular action
to stop it. (Human rights groups have argued to the
r contrary, saying failure to act makes one legally
responsible as an accomplice. We would not agree.) Of
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