Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, May 09, 1998

Issue date: Saturday, May 9, 1998
Pages available: 247
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 saturday free May world in head endures Wrath of Rwanda bitterness by Nicholas Kotch Reuters Kigali United nations Secretary general Kofi Annan left Rwanda yesterday after a two Day visit he could not have avoided but probably wishes he never had to Annan was Given a Public dressing Down by Rwanda foreign roasted by National Assembly Politi boycotted by the country rulers and snubbed by survivors of a 1994 genocide he has said he tried to but the visit ended on a happier with Annan and rwandan president Pasteur Biz Mung insisting at a news conference that they were i Given the history Between the in and this was not going to be an easy Annan told a news i have been Able to do All the essential things i came Here to annals visit to the fifth country on his eight nation african started badly thursday and continued in similar vein the reason for the frosty reception centres around a belief by the rwandan government and others As head of the in department charged with inter National peacekeeping in Annan did Little to prevent the massacre of More than Tutsi and moderate huts by Hutu All but 250 members of a in peace keeping Force were withdrawn after the Slaughter began on april the rwandans were further irked by the apparent reluctance of the in chief to apologize personally for his alleged saying a speech by Annan to the National Assembly thurs Day had been Annan has consistently defended himself and the world body by saying there was not enough International will to prevent or end the genocide and arguing that the United nations was Only As effective As the combined determination of its relations Between Rwanda and the United nations were not improved yesterday with news that Kigali had ordered the expulsion of a in human rights official on the grounds he constituted a threat to National last Joseluis spokesman for the in High commissioner for human rights Field opera Tion in publicly voiced his Agency objections to Rwanda Public execution of 22 genocide More than people including 36 in currently languishing in Rwanda jails awaiting trial on genocide Annan had Felt the full Force of Rwanda anger thursday when he had to sit through a blistering indict ment delivered in parliament by for eign minister Anastase then he was stood up by the coun try vice president and prime minister at the dinner they were due to give in his meets with a survivor of Rwanda 1994 As Annan sat beside him in Parlia Gas Ana attacked the United nations and its the league of for its treatment of Rwanda since Annan was expected to talk to a group of survivors of the genocide at a technical College on the outskirts of but when the in chiefs entourage arrived at the there was no one to meet no reason was Given for the latest but Annan adopted the Grin and Bearint approach and continued his journey to a genocide memorial he later left the rwandan capital for where he is Likely to receive a much warmer Welcome 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