Gerhard Gahima Quotes
After genocide, justice is impossible …. You cannot put all these people who committed these atrocities to death or in prison.
Gerhard Gahima, Deputy Justice Minister of Rwanda, Quoted in New York Times, June 24, 1996
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Referring to the Serbian atrocities in Bosnia:
This was the point of view that was adopted by the Western Allies about the German Nazis and collaborators in the other European nations. However, not everyone agreed at the time with this policy. Lord Russell, the British Nuremburg Prosecutor resigned over this policy. He had case files against over 100,000 Nazi’s who had committed war crimes that he was not allowed to pursue. There was one Western county that did not follow this policy—Norway. They actually tried, convicted and jailed 10 percent of their entire population for collaboration. Their rehabilitation was just fine without the services of these criminals and they became the richest per capita country in the West including the U.S. The issue will be debated by historians of each generation.
Regarding the expose that UN peacekeeping troops were committing sexual atrocities in the Congo. No one was brought to justice or punished.
He was a brutal, sadistic war criminal who was assassinated by one of his many enemies in 2000 before he could be brought to trial.
The speech is traditionally written by the government.
This treaty was an attempt to end the 100 Years War.
