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April 01, 2004
AN APOLOGY
Viewers of tonight's "Frontline" documentary about the 1994 Rwanda genocide will be reminded of "the world's failure to halt the slaughter." That's what I wrote earlier today. How stupid for being so vague. I owe readers an apology.
I should have said viewers will be reminded of "the failure of the United Nations." I should have said they will be reminded of "the failure of the United States." Because that's who failed, not some entity called "the world," which lets everybody off the hook.
And now I wonder whether the exhibition of Rwanda Project photos currently in the U.N. lobby, rather than paying tribute to the Rwanda orphans who took them, is actually an insult. The U.N. doesn't deserve the right to show those photos.
Posted by at April 1, 2004 11:35 AM