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|text={{mono|IDEOLOGICALLY THE RPF HAS BEEN ANTI-DICTATOR AND PRO-DEMOCRACY. BUT THERE IS ALSO A CURIOUS HANGOVER OF MARXIST IDEOLOGY IN SOME OF ITS WRITING AND A TROUBLING RECENT ATTACK ON PRIVATIZATION WHICH MAY REFLECT A SOCIALIST IDEOLOGICAL BIAS.}}
|author=What the American embassy in Kigali was thinking about in October 1993 |source=[https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB469/docs/DOCUMENT%2032.pdf]
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|text=The Rwandan government was reading my mail. We were infiltrated. They knew what I was doing. So if I sent someone off to do an investigation of the RPF, they might be killed. I wouldn't do it.
|author=[[Louise Arbour]], ICTR Prosecutor (1996–1999) |source=[https://books.google.no/books?id=7PAPc8d_NOQC&pg=PA331]
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|text='''Jean-Baptiste''': "We stopped in [[Kasindi]] and conducted cleanup operations throughout the area. We got rid of everyone considered an enemy: that meant all Hutu. We found the refugees in the forest. They were starving and sick. There was no water or food for these people. But we were told to eliminate them. So we killed them all. We even killed those who were dying, with perhaps only a few minutes to live. We didn't use guns on the weakest. We used traditional weapons like ''agafuni'' [hoes] to finish them off. Most of the killings of refugees took place in the jungle. But if refugees tried to hide in towns, we identified them and went after them. At this stage, there were no ex-FAR in the area. There were only civilians."<br/>
'''Judi Rever''': Every day, [Jean-Baptiste] lives with the fear that Kagame's agents will find and eliminate him. It was excruciating for him to reveal these horrifying moments to a stranger like me. Yet he wanted to do so. His courage was sobering. From him I got the briefest, clearest glimpse of our capacity for depravity and good, how it can coexist in the same soul.
|author="Jean-Baptiste" was a DMI soldier of the Rwandan Patriotic Front |source=Judi Rever, ''In Praise of Blood'' (2018), pp. 14f.
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|text=Some policymakers [...] have confused an appropriate recognition of the debt they owe to Rwandan genocide victims with a sense of obligation to current Rwandan authorities. This sense of obligation helps keep them silent before past and present abuses of the RPA, thus perpetuating the pattern of impunity for massive abuses.
|author=[[Alison Des Forges]], 1999 |source=[https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1999/rwanda/Geno15-8-05.htm]
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|text=I fear we will wake up in several years and find a new generation of African leaders has become an old generation of African strongmen
|author=Senator [[John Ashcroft]], 1998 |source=[https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container2143/files/Publications/DP/2013/01-Reydams.pdf#page=47]
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|text=Not for the moment. They know killing me will make too much noise. It’s harder to kill you once you are known, once you’ve been seen.
|author=[[Diane Rwigara]], 2017 |source=[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/aug/04/rwanda-pretty-girl-makeup-inside-dark-and-dirty-diane-rwigara-paul-kagame-election]
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|text=27 years on,this day changed the life of every Rwandese&Country in the most fundamental way. Thanks to the ones who gave their all for it!!!
|author=[[Paul Kagame]], 1 October 2017 |source=[https://twitter.com/PaulKagame/status/914477620749897728]
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|text=Look around. Strongman politics are ascendant suddenly, [...]. [....] we have to stop pretending that countries that just hold an election where sometimes the winner somehow magically gets 90 percent of the vote [...] is a democracy.
|author=[[Barack Obama]], July 2018 |source=[https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629862434/transcript-obamas-speech-at-the-2018-nelson-mandela-annual-lecture?t=1542550595706]
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* Remarkable study on how the genocide against Hutus in DR Congo in 1996–1997 could be ignored: {{cite web|url=http://repository.forcedmigration.org/pdf/?pid=fmo:1848|last=Gowing|first=Nik|authorlink=Nik Gowing |date=27 May 1998|title=New challenges and problems for information management in complex emergencies. Ominous lessons from the Great Lakes and Eastern Zaire in late 1996 and early 1997.}}
* '''Argues that the United States contributed to impunity for the RPF''': {{cite web|url=https://www.uantwerpen.be/images/uantwerpen/container2143/files/Publications/DP/2013/01-Reydams.pdf#page=43|page=43f|title=Let’s Be Friends: The United States, Post-Genocide Rwanda, and Victor’s Justice in Arusha|date=January 2013|first=Luc|last=Reydams|work=[[Institute of Development Policy and Management]]}}
* '''Proof that ''African Rights'' was RPF propaganda''': {{cite journal|last1=Reydams|first1=Luc|title=NGO Justice: African Rights as Pseudo-Prosecutor of the Rwandan Genocide|journal=Human Rights Quarterly|date=2016|volume=38|issue=3|pages=547–588|doi=10.1353/hrq.2016.0041|url=http://www.corteidh.or.cr/tablas/r35223.pdf}}
* [http://francegenocidetutsi.org/LeaveNoneToTellTheStory.pdf Leave None to Tell the Story], [[Alison Des Forges]]
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|text=Though it may be necessary for the administration to over-simplify Soviet intentions in appealing to Congress and the people for support of the defense program, it is nonetheless important that we in the Department and on the National Security Council do not become '[[wiktionary:hoist by one's own petard|hoisted by our own petard]].'
|author=Henry Koch of the [[Policy Planning Staff (United States)|Policy Planning Staff]], August 1951 |source=[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=w6TVdT-q7vcC&pg=PA87]
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|text=You have to pat them a little bit and make them think that you are fond of them.
|author=SecState [[John Foster Dulles]] on Latin Americans, February 1953 |source=[https://books.google.no/books?id=dtA3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT36&lpg=PT36&dq=%22You+have+to+pat+them+a+little+bit+and+make+them+think+that+you+are+fond+of+them.%22]
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|text=The pool was no solace, cigarettes and vodka-limes tasted awful.
|author=[[Kermit Roosevelt Jr.]] in Iran |source=[https://books.google.no/books?id=3OCDelYICIsC&pg=PA105 Countercoup p. 171]
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|text=I think that Senator Kennedy's policies and recommendations for the handling of the Castro regime are probably the most dangerously irresponsible recommendations that he has made during the course of this campaign. In effect, what Senator Kennedy recommends is that the United States government should give help to the exiles and to those within Cuba who oppose the Castro regime, provided they are anti-Batista. Now let's just see what this means. We have five treaties with Latin America, including the one setting up the Organization of American States in Bogotá in 1948, in which we have agreed not to intervene in the internal affairs of any other American country, and they as well have agreed to do likewise. The Charter of the United Nations, its a preamble, Article 1 and Article 2, also provide that there shall be no intervention by one nation in the internal affairs of another. Now I don't know what Senator Kennedy suggests when he says that we should help those who oppose the Castro regime, both in Cuba and without. But I do know this, that if we were to follow that recommendation, that we would lose all of our friends in Latin America; we would probably be condemned in the United Nations; and we would not accomplish our objective. I know something else. It would be an open invitation for Mr. Khrushchev to come in, to come in to Latin America and to engage us in what would be a civil war and possibly even worse than that. This is the major recommendation that he's made. Now, what can we do? Well we can do what we did with Guatemala. There was a communist dictator that we inherited from the previous administration. We quarantined Mr. Árbenz, the result was that the Guatemalan people themselves eventually rose up and they threw him out. We are quarantining Mr. Castro today.
|author=[[Richard Nixon]], [https://www.c-span.org/video/?33219-1/1960-presidential-candidates-fourth-debate 21 October 1960] (19 minutes in), last presidential debate, in response to [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=74127 this statement by the Kennedy campaign]
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|text=I don't see why the United States should stand by and let Chile go communist merely due to the stupidity of its own people.
|author=National Security Adviser [[Henry Kissinger]], 25 March 1970 to the [[40 Committee]]|source=[https://books.google.no/books?id=3OCDelYICIsC&pg=PA405]
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|text=Does it make sense to ever release [<nowiki/>[[Guantanamo Bay detention camp|Guantanamo]] detainees] if you think they are going to continue to be dangerous even though you can't convict them of a crime?
|author=Deputy Assistant Attorney-General [[John Yoo]], 2002 |source=[https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0409/p01s03-usju.html]
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