{"id":215,"date":"2004-04-01T13:53:58","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T18:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=215"},"modified":"2005-12-06T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2005-12-06T21:56:36","slug":"it-depends-on-your-definition-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/it-depends-on-your-definition-of-genocide","title":{"rendered":"It depends on your definition of &#8216;genocide&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/03\/31\/1080544556703.html\" target=\"_blank\">New documents<\/a> show that the Clinton administration knew about the massacres in Rwanda much earlier than it officially claimed to, and hid its collective head in the sand to avoid getting involved in another Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/canadafreepress.com\/archives\/2004\/main032904.htm\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> on the UN&#8217;s stonewalling of the plane crash that helped instigate the massacres. This one utterly boggles the mind.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to hear from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060541644\/voyantpublishing\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha Power<\/a> on this stuff. Anyone know how to reach her?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New documents show that the Clinton administration knew about the massacres in Rwanda much earlier than it officially claimed to, and hid its collective head in the sand to avoid getting involved in another Somalia. Plus, here&#8217;s a piece on the UN&#8217;s stonewalling of the plane crash that helped instigate the massacres. This one utterly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/it-depends-on-your-definition-of-genocide\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It depends on your definition of &#8216;genocide&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3t","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/my-mother-will-be-so-proud","url_meta":{"origin":215,"position":0},"title":"My mother will be so proud . . .","author":"Gil","date":"April 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"The Head Heeb has linked to my almost-self-pitying Rwanda piece. 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