Middle East genocide must be stopped

By Tony Wright
Updated August 30 2014 - 3:13pm, first published 12:15am
Too little, too late: At least 800,000 people were killed in 100 days in Rwanda in 1994. "We did not act quickly enough after the killing began,"  said US President Bill Clinton four years later. Photo: Themistocles Hakizimana
Too little, too late: At least 800,000 people were killed in 100 days in Rwanda in 1994. "We did not act quickly enough after the killing began," said US President Bill Clinton four years later. Photo: Themistocles Hakizimana

As much of the world - including Australia - wrings its collective hands about what might be done about the campaign of genocide being prosecuted by the ghastly mediaevalists of the Islamic State in Iraq, it is worth recalling that on March 25, 1998 - 20 years ago - US President Bill Clinton flew to the little central African country of Rwanda to deliver an apology.

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