Pres. Paul Kagame of Rwandan calls for direct UN Security Council or United States intervention to end Tigray Genocide
Posted: 21 Jun 2021, 20:02
(Ecofin Agency) - For Rwandan president Paul Kagame, the UN, the USA, and other African countries are not sufficiently engaged in finding a solution to the Tigray conflict. This negligence could worsen the crisis in the coming years, he believes.
On February 3rd, during the chat show Battlegrounds (a periodic chat organized and hosted by the Hoover Institution for "international perspectives on crucial challenges to security and prosperity", President Paul Kagame expressed his views on the management of the Tigray conflict. According to the official, concerted action is needed towards a lasting solution to the Tigray conflict, which has already forcibly displaced thousands of livelihoods.
"For Ethiopia […] the toll is getting too high […] It is absolutely worrying and I hope the United States’ new administration, the UN, and others are thinking of how to collaborate with other African states to see what can be achieved together, for the African continent. Africa needs to be engaged primarily, but it is not that easy to say Africa is going to do this with this... It is going to be difficult, but something needs to happen to manage and quell that [conflict] because, by maybe one, two, or three years, we shall find that the toll is extremely high," He said.
For the Rwandan president, the international community does not have enough credible information about the crisis facing Ethiopia. "In fact, the other problem is that it [Ethiopia] has been cut off from the rest of the world. People don’t really know what is going on in there, other than the misery and the things we see when people cross the border and run into Sudan or things we hear when people who have been working there with difficulty say what they have seen or heard," Paul Kagame remarked, adding that the situation should not be ignored.
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On February 3rd, during the chat show Battlegrounds (a periodic chat organized and hosted by the Hoover Institution for "international perspectives on crucial challenges to security and prosperity", President Paul Kagame expressed his views on the management of the Tigray conflict. According to the official, concerted action is needed towards a lasting solution to the Tigray conflict, which has already forcibly displaced thousands of livelihoods.
"For Ethiopia […] the toll is getting too high […] It is absolutely worrying and I hope the United States’ new administration, the UN, and others are thinking of how to collaborate with other African states to see what can be achieved together, for the African continent. Africa needs to be engaged primarily, but it is not that easy to say Africa is going to do this with this... It is going to be difficult, but something needs to happen to manage and quell that [conflict] because, by maybe one, two, or three years, we shall find that the toll is extremely high," He said.
For the Rwandan president, the international community does not have enough credible information about the crisis facing Ethiopia. "In fact, the other problem is that it [Ethiopia] has been cut off from the rest of the world. People don’t really know what is going on in there, other than the misery and the things we see when people cross the border and run into Sudan or things we hear when people who have been working there with difficulty say what they have seen or heard," Paul Kagame remarked, adding that the situation should not be ignored.
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