Brian Atwood
[2008] The Great Rwanda "Genocide Coverup"
by Prof. Peter Erlinder According to sworn affidavits placed in
the ICTR record in early 2006, more than 10 years ago, ICTR Lead Investigative
Prosecutor, well-respected Australian QC Michael Hourigan, recommended that
Kagame, himself, be prosecuted for the assassination of Habyarimana. But, in
1997, then-Chief UN Prosecutor Louise Arbour of Canada ordered him to drop the
Kagame investigation; to forget it ever happened; and, to burn his notes !
Hourigan resigned rather than comply and copies of his original notes are now
part of the ICTR public record for all to see.
The Hourigan affidavit makes clear that the "Rwanda
Genocide"-- Cover-up has been going on for at least a decade....but the
reasons for the cover-up did not become clear until late 2007, when a senior
Clinton Administration diplomat, Brian Atwood, was confronted with UN documents
describing a 1994 "cover-up" meeting with the Rwandan Foreign Minister in Kigali
and the UN's Kofi Annan. According to the UN documents, U.S.-sponsored human
rights reports by investigator, Robert Gersony, had documented massive
military-style executions of civilians by Kagame's troops, during and after the
final 90-days of the four-year Rwanda War.
The former Rwandan Foreign Minister at the meeting, Jean
Marie Ndagiyimana, testified at the ICTR that, rather than participate in the
proposed "cover-up," he resigned and went into exile where he remains today. His
ICTR testimony confirmed that Clinton's USAID Chief for Africa, Brian Atwood,
and the chief of the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations Kofi Annan, were
both in his office in late October 1994 urging him to assist in the "cover-up"
the war-crimes committed by Kagame's forces.
The damning "Gersony Report" included first-hand evidence of
tens of thousands of civilians being massacred by Kagame's troops in
eastern Rwanda, later confirmed by similar reports by Human Rights Watch and
Amnesty International. The U.N. Document (also in the ICTR record) says that
Annan told the Foreign Minister that public knowledge of the Report would be
"embarrassing to the UN" and the U.S. Former Clinton-diplomat, Brian Atwood, not
only confirmed he was at the meeting, but explained that he had engaged
Gersony, and that Gersony's findings of war-crimes being committed by Kagame
were "an inconvenient truth" for both the United States and the UN.