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“The Arab Republic of Egypt and other Arab countries which have been the victims of imperialist and Zionist aggression have been supported by all revolutionary peoples in their just cause. 138. In Asia, the peoples of Indo-China are marching inexorably towards final victory. Imperialism at bay shrinks at nothing to shed the blood of innocent people. In spite of the dimensions of the means of destruction used in that part of the world, every day the laurel of victory is held aloft by millions of fighters for freedom and honour. 139. In Latin America, liberation movements are gaining ground in spite of the heinous and criminal acts of despair, like the event which has just occurred and afflicted the Chilean people.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The hour of victory against economic domination and cultural alienation has arrived in other African States which have taken energetic and revolutionary measures to win their independence and safeguard their authentic cultural heritage in spite of threats and blackmail of all kinds. 137. The trends towards national emancipation have forced the colonialist regimes to decamp from vast territories seized by the national liberation movements at the cost of the blood of the worthy sons and daughters of Africa. The war waged by Israel against the Arab countries and its permanent usurpation of the land of the Palestinian people have aroused the anger and condemnation of all peace-loving and justice-loving peoples.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“But the progressive forces, supported by the revolutionary forces of the world, have- repulsed victoriously the criminal assaults of these enemies of the human race. Other sovereign States have been the victims of aggression on the part of the Portuguese colonial regimes and the racist regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia. Here again these acts of aggression and intimidation have met with the revolutionary determination of worthy and valiant peoples who are always ready to repulse triumphantly the enemy, whatever the aid granted these regimes by the imperialist and neo-colonialist Powers. Neo-colonialist Powers have done everything in their power to oppose sovereign and independent States with the purpose of weakening the anti-imperialist front, but the vigilance and wisdom of Africa have confounded them. 136.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Every year most of us travel thousands and thousands of miles to come to this rostrum in order to take stock of the activities and results of our Organization, from both the political and the economic point of view. Our presence will also enable us to gain some insight into the future prospects for the whole of mankind. 135. The people of Burundi, peace-loving and liberty- loving, warmly greeted the victories won and the successes recorded in recent years by the other peoples of the world that have inflicted resounding defeats on the imperialist and colonialist forces. In Africa independent States have had to face divisive manoeuvres and plots of all kinds hatched by imperialists with a view to the collapse of institutions and even the dislocation of nations.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“The principle of universality of our Organization does require, in fact, the representation of the greatest possible number of States so that all peoples can feel involved in the problems of universal peace and the economic and social development of nations, whatever their location or size. That is why we greet with enthusiasm the admission of the three new Members, which, for us, constitutes a new stage on the road towards the emancipation of colonized peoples. We expect from the two German States a major contribution to the solution of problems which are paralysing international society, such as decolonization, underdevelopment, the exploitation of man by man, and the scourge of racism. 134.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, my sincere congratulations for the record of his activities this year. Once again we should like to express to our distinguished Secretary-General our great admiration for the tact, patience and devotion which he has displayed in the difficult and delicate task of international affairs. We were particularly moved by Mr. Waldheim's efforts this year to bring about the triumph of the ideals of peace and security, and the development of friendly relations among peoples. 133. On 18 September 1973 [2117th meeting] the United Nations was strengthened by the entry of three new Member States: the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany. My delegation is gratified at this decision, which is so appropriate for the international community.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“My delegation will firmly support the initiatives and decisions which he will be called upon to take as President with a view to the attainment of the objectives of our Organization and in order to bring about respect for the principles of our Charter. 131. Permit me to pay a well-deserved tribute to our President's predecessor, Mr. Stanislaw Trepczyriski, who conducted our deliberations with brilliant intelligence, unshakeable faith in the Organization and high diplomatic talents. The progressive countries of the world highly esteem the stand of the Polish People's Republic for peace, decolonization and economic and social development, objectives which our outgoing President himself championed during the session and in other circumstances. 132. I have, furthermore, the honour of conveying to Mr.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“It is also my pleasant duty to extend, on behalf of the Government of Burundi, the warmest and most sincere congratulations to President Leopoldo Benites and to the other officers of the Assembly who have just been elected to bring the work of the twenty-eighth session to a successful conclusion. 128. The choice of a distinguished diplomat like Mr. Benites, whose personality, confidence and objectivity are so highly esteemed, both in his own country and in the rest of the world, constitutes a sure pledge and an earnest of the success of this session. 129. On behalf of the active solidarity of our peoples, we know that the struggle for political and economic liberation in Latin America, Asia and Africa is something which Ambassador Benites not only cherishes, but which also constitutes for him j sacred duty. 130.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“126. From this international rostrum I have the honour of transmitting the message of fraternity and solidarity which His Excellency Colonel Michel Micombero, President of the Republic and Head of the Government of Burundi, addresses on behalf of his people — struggling to safeguard its independence and the results of its popular revolution of 28 November 1966 — to the other peoples of the world involved in the same struggle for the triumph of the ideals of peace, security, social justice and for the elimination of colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism and imperialism in all its forms. 127.”
1973-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 28 (1973)
“But all these objectives, all these noble goals which are contained in the United Nations Charter can be achieved only if all the peoples of the world join hands in an upsurge of solidarity and fraternity to rekindle the flame of San. Francisco, which has stirred the hearts of all men of goodwill who have joined together against the great scourges of humanity. 96. It is in that spirit that we wish every success to this session of the General Assembly and happiness and prosperity for all peoples.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The development of means of transport, radio, newspapers, international meetings are in the process of eliminating geographical barriers which separate or which formerly separated peoples, and promoting international economic relations. As is the case within States, economic mutual assistance should contribute to a more equitable distribution of the world's wealth among nations and put an end to the systematic exploitation of the poorest by the richest. 94. The elimination of injustice and exploitation among States is without doubt the most powerful factor promoting world peace, prosperity and the continued progress of mankind. 95.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Our country also encounters difficulties because of the fact that it is land-locked. In order to meet these difficulties it needs technical assistance, particularly in order to improve its transport infrastructure. 91. Burundi will endorse any regional or subregional project in the transport field and will support any measures designed to help the land-locked countries by special freight rates and by facilitating the transit of their goods through neighboring countries. 92. Economic exchange and co-operation have always been the basis of the deepest links of the solidarity between men belonging to the same family, the same village, the same town and the same country; so why should international economic co-operation not play a unifying role for the whole world community? 93.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“There is the possibility of reducing, for example, the quota restrictions applicable to the exports of the least advanced countries and lowering taxes on tropical products, limiting non-tariff obstacles, identifying and eliminating restrictive trade practices, stabilizing the prices of tropical products and increasing the number of products to which the generalized system of preferences would apply so as to embrace products whose export is of particular interest and importance to the least-advanced countries. 89. The least developed of the developing countries, whose economy is based essentially on agriculture, cannot develop as long as their resources within the field of agriculture are backward. It is important, therefore, that special measures to improve the agriculture of the least- advanced should be adopted. 90.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Economic regional integration and co-operation constitutes one of these measures to the extent that it can solve problems such as the smallness of domestic markets and the question of natural and human resources, as well as the problem of limited financial resources which these countries suffer from. 87. The most advanced countries among the developing countries can plan an important role in helping the least advanced. This assistance can be given both within and outside the framework of regional economic co-operation agreements. 88. Within the realm of trade policy, we must have special supplementary measures favoring the least developed countries.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“In tackling problems of development the organs of the United Nations especially the United Nations Development Program like certain bilateral donors recognize that the least advanced countries and the land-locked countries should benefit from measures which would make it possible for them to profit equitably from international development policies, and we should lay stress on some of these measures. 85. Technical assistance, including training, can increase the capacity for absorption of capital inflows to developing countries, especially the least advanced of them, and in this regard it is important to co-ordinate technical assistance efforts from all organizations, both multilateral and bilateral. 86.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“That is why we must allot resources to the preservation and improvement of the environment, while taking account of the particular needs of the developing countries. 83. At the present time we are witnessing great sympathy and international solidarity towards the developing countries that are the least developed. Our country properly appreciates and understands the measures contemplated for the benefit of that group of countries, to which we, unfortunately, belong. 84.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“We share the concern of most Governments at the sometimes nefarious role played by international companies in the economic and social development of certain developing countries and associate ourselves with those countries which call for an expert group to study the influence of international companies in the process of development, in order to formulate conclusions which would be taken into account by Governments when they set their development policies. 82. We understand the importance attached today to the problems of environment. However, we must agree that the problems of environment which face the developing countries differ from those which face the developed countries.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“An important question which is at the center of our attention is the inalienable right of the developing countries to exercise their sovereignty over their own natural resources and to take all the necessary measures to develop those resources in the interests of the economic and social development of their people. All measures or economic or political pressures from the outside, prejudicial to those rights, constitute a flagrant violation of the principles of self-determination and non-intervention in the internal affairs of other States. That is why we support any measure which would provide for the creation of a revolving fund of the United Nations for the exploration and exploitation of natural resources. 81.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“An over-all conception of development means that the United Nations should, here and now, assume greater responsibility in the achievement of economic development which would be better balanced at the international level. 79. In order to bring about an over-all development, it is important to recognize the role of regional co-operation. The regional economic commissions have already acquired great experience in this field and hence constitute, within the framework of the United Nations, a point of convergence of the national, subregional, regional and world development efforts. 80.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The attainment of the objective of 1 per cent of the gross national product or a financial contribution of the target of 0.7 per cent for public assistance to development and the establishment of a link between the special drawing rights and additional financial resources for development, will contribute, we are convinced, to a resolution of the difficulties of a financial type which are encountered by the developing countries. 77. Burundi attaches great importance to economic co-operation and regional integration among developing countries. 78. The United Nations must pay particular attention to the long-term prospects of economic and social development, in order to view development within the broader framework of an indivisible world, in which all nations are interdependent.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“We agree with the content of resolution 59 (III), which calls upon the Trade and Development Board to institute within the framework of UNCTAD a special agency to find practical solutions to the problems which the developing countries face in the matter of debt-servicing. 75. In view of the gravity of the situation in which the developing countries find themselves in regard to their indebtedness, it is highly desirable that the conditions upon which aid is provided should be reasonable. 76.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“We note with pessimism that government aid to the poorer countries is declining and that the burden of their debt is growing heavier. The recent devaluation of the dollar and the revaluation of other currencies resulted in raising the nominal value of the external debt of the third world, expressed in dollars. 74. There persists profound disagreement between developing countries as to the nature of measures to be taken to resolve the problems of indebtedness. The debates of the recent session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development [UNCTAD] confirmed this once again.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Those countries should be given the opportunity to participate fully, continuously, at every stage of the negotiations. 71. Our Government attaches particular importance to solutions which will be found to problems of commodities and all measures affecting access to markets J and price policies, including international machinery for the stabilization of prices, the effectiveness of existing international agreements on commodities, and any new agreements reached will be of the utmost importance to us. 72. The generalized system of preferences, in order to be more effective, should provide for the inclusion in its plans of all primary commodities which constitute the very basis of the economy of most developing countries. 73.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The revision of the international monetary system should be studied with the effective participation of third world countries at every stage. It cannot constitute a preserve of the "Group of 10" alone. This revision of the Bretton Woods system should serve to bring about a solution of our development problems. 68. We note with regret that the position of the developing countries in the field of international trade, upon which their economy largely depends, continues to worsen. 69. Burundi endorses the idea that developing countries should not be kept out of the preparations for new world-wide negotiations on international trade which are to take place next year. 70. In the course of those negotiations, special arrangements should be worked out to give an important place to the developing countries.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Developing countries, which are in no way responsible for that crisis resulting from an imbalance between developed countries, are obliged to be the sufferers today of the principal adverse effects of the uncertainties born of the collapse of the Bretton Woods system and the subsequent monetary readjustments. 66. A solution of the monetary crisis must not impose any additional burden on the developing countries, which have unreservedly co-operate in the efforts undertaken to maintain the stability of the international monetary system. Quite the contrary; special corrective measures should be taken to compensate them for their losses. 67. It is particularly important for the developing countries to make an effective contribution to the establishment of an international monetary system which would be most in keeping with their interests.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Burundi, for its part, profoundly attached to the well-being of the human race, is determined to associate itself with the growing universal movement to bring about a general improvement in the economic and international monetary system. 64. Important events which have occurred recently have revealed the fragility, the disadvantages and the disappointments inherent in the international situation within the field of economic development. 65. The monetary crisis which broke out in August 1971 and its consequences have revealed clearly the need for a revision of the international monetary system.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Thus, more than 100,000 Rwandan refugees have found refuge in our country in their attempt to escape from the genocide of 1959-1964 and have been, for the most part, settled in regions distant from the center. The necessary measures have been taken to prevent them from adversely affecting the security of Rwanda and those measures have been and continue to remain quite effective. 62. At a time when every effort is made and all forces combined to consolidate the OAU in particular, at a time when all countries are busy forming great regional and continental groupings, it is imperative to put an end to the primitive conception of power which hampers the surge towards economic co-operation amongst peoples and the harmonization of relations among States. 63.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The obligation upon the Government of Kigali to renounce for ever its interference in the events and situations occurring in Burundi, on the strange pretext of universalizing Hutu militancy in a sovereign State, is necessary also in the case of the refugees. 60. Our Government has complied with the letter and the spirit of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, .signed at Geneva on 28 July 1951 and with the Protocol on Mediation, Conciliation and Arbitration of the OAU, to such an extent that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has, in his annual report ever since 1966, described Burundi as the "pilot country" in this area. 61.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The repeated participation of that country in genocidal plots successively organized against our people, its tribalization of all the political organs on the model of the colonialist and nazi regimes, and its granting of refuge to a mercenary clique, constitutes a trilogy which in itself suffices to demonstrate that Rwanda is nothing less than a bridgehead of the recolonization of Africa, or rather a pocket of unrepentant colonialism. 57. The extreme gravity of Rwandan interference in the internal affairs of sovereign States and the low blows it struck in the unsuccessful attempt at genocide require redress by Kigali. 58. Moreover, any renewed attempt is liable to lead to dire "results for which Rwanda will be fully responsible. 59.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“We Hutus declare furthermore that we wish to collaborate with the Belgian authorities as long as the democratization of the country, peace and progress require it for the Hutu emancipation movement. (Signed) Kayibanda." 55. After the gloomy picture depicted above, what further proof is needed that Rwanda remains the most fertile breeding-ground of those forces which are determined to undermine and weaken the independence, sovereignty and racial harmony of Africa, forces which yesterday seriously threatened the integrity of Zaire, severed from Katanga, and which, immediately thereafter advocated the creation of a Biafra torn from Nigeria. And is it not that very same Rwanda which served as a haven for mercenaries whose claim to fame was the sowing of desolation in a sister republic, an influential member of the OAU? 56.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Indeed, the theoreticians of that apartheid a la Hutu advocated as long ago as 1959 the creation of South African-type "Bantustans". In order to permit members to judge this, it suffices to read out the text of a telegram addressed in 1959 to the United Nations and to the Belgian Government by Mr. Gregoire Kayibanda, founder of the Hutu Party and the present President of Rwanda. It reads as follows: "We Hutu represent 85 per cent of the people of Rwanda. We insistently call for racial peace with collaboration of the Belgian authorities and fear the worst for the whole country if they do not accept the geographical partition into Hutu zone and Tutsi zone.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The list of all the candidates and the elective posts were drawn up by the Union of National Progress [UPRONA], the mass party which, in the legislative elections supervised by the United Nations in 1961, obtained 94 per cent of the votes on the basis of the universal suffrage of all men and women 18 years of age and above, illiterate as well as literate. 53. However, the Rwanda system hermetically closes the doors of Government, of Parliament and of the Party to all its sons and daughters who, by accident of birth, did not happen to be Hutus. 54. Hitherto we have confined ourselves to drawing up a list of all the misdeeds and atrocities committed by the Rwanda political regime. It is time now to trace the causes.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Leaving aside Pretoria, there is not in the world any country other than Rwanda with a regime that systematically excludes all other ethnic entities from the Government, from Parliament and from the Party. 52. In the event that Rwanda is inclined to contest this fact, the Government of Bujumbura on behalf of which I have the honor of speaking here, would be ready to have a mission sent-preferably from the OAU, or, if not, from the United Nations. That mission would go to our two countries in order to carry out an inquiry. In Burundi it would note that all of our successive Governments, ever since the reconquering of our independence in 1962, have included, without any exception, Hutu and Tutsi which were alternately majorities according to the criterion of individual abilities.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“All this is to the credit of the unity and determination of our people to struggle against invaders who want to import systems which have been condemned by history. 49. In the light of these facts and in such circumstances, how can Rwanda and those who have so ingeniously manipulated this random number be in a position to be better informed about the number of dead than the Burundi Government itself? We should like an answer to this question. 50. What are we to say about the hundreds of thousands of human heads which fell in Rwanda in the course of the genocide committed in the name of the Hutu tribe from 1959 to 1964? We do not hear the Rwanda Government decrying this holocaust which it caused in order to establish a Hutu State. 51.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Could Rwanda reveal to us the genius thanks to which it was able to count the victims? While it is undeniably established that the Rwandese contributed to the massacres, it nevertheless seems impossible for their agents to know the number of victims, since the agents who came from Rwanda were, for the most part, mowed down in the course of battle or captured. 47. The Government of Burundi, for its part, was in a position to count the victims by means of all its military personnel, the Party, the national youth, the Union of Burundese Women and the Union of Burundese Workers, who were all mobilized in order to honor the mortal remains of their brothers and sisters who were immolated for this high ideal, namely, the indivisibility of the Burundese people. 48.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Fearing that they would run into our forces of order from the very first moment they attempted to tread on Burundi soil under irregular conditions, the subversive agents coming from Rwanda infiltrated into Burundi through neighboring countries, whose good faith they abused. Such fraud is liable not only to bring about open conflict between Rwanda and Burundi, but also to embroil the latter country with its neighboring brotherly countries. The Foreign Minister of Rwanda was very ingenious in trying to condemn publicly the "systematic genocide" of which his own country was the principal organizer! 46. Mr. Munyaneza from this very rostrum repeated this imaginary number of 200,000 people massacred, a number which initially was waved around by Rwanda in order to arouse pressure abroad which would tend to make the guilty innocent.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“If Rwanda were to be tempted to fail to recognize the criminal role which it assigned to its nationals, we would be reduced to asking it about the motives of the hundreds of Rwandese irregulars who were found on our Territory. 44. Let us admit for a moment the theory of the Rwanda regime that the Hutu in Burundi are in distress and those in Rwanda are wallowing in opulence. We still have to ask Kigali whether they sent the successive waves of Rwanda irregulars to our country to join in the martyrdom of the Burundi Hutu or to commit crimes. 45. Those irregulars, after having undergone intensive training in subversion, were sent to Burundi by stealth and clandestinely.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Can any more convincing proof against that Government be asked for than the fact that the 300 Rwanda nationals who were captured were repatriated, except for 36 of them, who are still in the hands of the Burundi authorities? In the light of the mildness that our Government lavished on Rwanda in spite of its direct and flagrant participation in the plot designed to decimate our people, it is staggering to hear the Foreign Minister of Rwanda proclaim at once his innocence and his indignation. Certainly the nightmare which haunts him stems both from the overwhelming facts against his country in our possession and from the crushing defeat of his compatriots whom he sent to commit aggression against Burundi. According to the Rwandese thesis, the Hutu of Burundi are sunk in poverty and are exploited by the "Tutsi overlords".”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“With the purpose of camouflaging its enormous guilt in these fratricidal crimes, Rwanda sent its Foreign Minister in June to foreign capitals in Asia and Europe, But it is more than high time that the country of Rwanda dispelled its own illusions, because Rwanda must be told that it does not possess the monopoly of the friendship of Asian and European Governments, which, contrary to the hopes of Rwanda, are very little disposed to believe naively everything it says implicitly. 43. The magnanimity of our Government towards Rwanda was not confined to keeping silent on the role of that country in the program of extermination. While there were quite a number of Rwanda citizens among the 20,000 attackers who died on the battlefield, Burundi preferred reserve to open denunciation of Rwanda.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Certainly the 50,000 Burundi citizens who were annihilated in the course of the first few days by the attackers represent a terrible calamity and a sad loss for our country, 42. This turn of events thwarted the diabolical consequences planned on by the Rwanda Government. We have already invoked the reasons why we made these great sacrifices, particularly in view of our wish to bring about the fraternization of the African continent.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The Belgian newspapers Le Soir, La Cite and Remarques Africaines, in connivance with the Rwanda authorities, competed with each other in spreading and advertising this "made in Rwanda" product. 41. The number of targets was predetermined between Kigali and the exterminating agents, and without doubt Mr. Munyaneza is confusing his plan and the results actually achieved. Under that plan hundreds of thousands of Burundi citizens were doomed to systematic elimination. Nevertheless, some 25,000 assailants, which included a number of Rwandese, did not succeed in fully fulfilling their plan, for they met with the heroic resistance of the Burundi people, hence the crushing defeat inflicted on the attackers, which reduced to a quarter the number of targets which the Rwanda plan provided for in its first phase.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The Rwanda example was decisive with regard to the evolution of Burundi, to the extent that the Hutu putsch of 1965, which was also accompanied by massacres" of the Tutsi-children, women and old people-"in the Muramvya region, seemed to be bringing the country into the same vicious circle." But fortunately the authorities were vigilant. 39. As the annihilation of our peoples was hatched with the complicity of Rwanda, the Foreign Minister of that country dares to state, in regard to the number of victims in Burundi, that "more than 200,000 innocent victims have been massacred" [2054th meeting, para. 22.] 40. This is the same number as was propagated from Rwanda and spread throughout the world.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Romain Foucher, in the magazine Esprit of July-August 1972, echoed the universal indignation in the face of the virulent tribalism of Rwanda: "The ethnic crystallization in fact began in Rwanda, where discriminations of this type were always more advanced and more extreme and the revolution which broke out there in 1959, with its sequels which lasted until 1963, established a 'panhutu' regime, which saw the violent disappearance of some 20,000 Batutsi (the most terrible genocide that had occurred since that of the Jews, as Bertrand Russell said) as well as the forced expulsion of 200,000 others. These refugees are still today in camps, as are their Palestinian counterparts.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The tribalist inflation in Rwanda was condemned by Rene Lemarchand in his book Rwanda and Burundi, in which he exposes the bloody revolution of Rwanda, stating that that of Burundi was accompanied by no bloodshed when the monarchy was overthrown in 1966.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“It was to be feared that the Tutsi would think they had nothing more to lose and that their only hope of defense lay in recourse to violence, because any possibility of a solution of conciliation had disappeared once and for all. The problem of the Africanization of official jobs had become much more complicated because of the elimination of the Tutsi. 37. I should like to mention another source, a trustworthy source, to substantiate what has happened in that country, which certainly has no right to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries. I would venture to quote Radio Vatican, which described the last wave of genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda in 1964 as one of the most terrible and most systematic acts of genocide since the genocide of the Jews by Hitler. 38. There are still other sources.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“A report submitted to the sixteenth session of the General Assembly by the United Nations mission to Ruanda-Urundi says: "In Rwanda, on the other hand, a Government has been brought to power which had from the outset followed violent methods and which had been actively supported from its foundation by the Administering Authority ..." It was also stated that the racial dictatorship of a single party had been established in Rwanda and the events of the previous 18 months had consisted in a transition from one kind of oppressive regime to another. That extension was encouraged, and it was to be feared that the Tutsi would find themselves incapable of defending themselves against abuses.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“The massacres., which in his speech on 5 October, the Minister of National Co-operation laid to what he was pleased to describe as a feudal minority were imputable to the tribalist regime which it incarnates and which he represents. 36. From the Government to the party, including the National Assembly, all the political institutions of Rwanda are tribalized and come from fratricidal procedures, as is shown by the most varied authorized sources, and I would venture to mention these.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“This provocative act on the part of the Foreign Minister of Rwanda has made it possible for us finally to shed all possible light on the part played by the Kigali Government in the succession of attempts at coups d'etat and acts of genocide against our people. In the course of the very day in which Mr. Munyaneza was reciting his charges against Burundi, our delegation was obliged to exercise the right of reply [2055th meeting]. Our statement addressed to Rwanda was not confined to a simple routine denial; it was based upon facts and overwhelming evidence against Rwanda, which, although it was the guilty party, actually dared to become an accuser.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Now, it is precisely in order to safeguard the prestige of our continental organization that all our authorities within the country as well as those outside it have received orders to allow nothing to filter through about the criminal role played by Rwanda in the decimation of our people. 34. Thus arises the inevitable question of why the delegation of Rwanda, under the leadership of Mr. Munyaneza, and certain emissaries remembered the need to keep intact the image of the OAU after having themselves tarnished it by their particularly slanderous allegations against a member State of that organization. 35.”
1972-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 27 (1972)
“Without doubt trusting to the ingeniousness of his own imagination, the spokesman for the Kigali Government counted on the same spirit of accommodation it had so long benefited from thanks to our great circumspection and our restraint, a gesture which is unique and peculiar to Rwanda, and, after having vilified the Republic of Burundi from this very rostrum its representatives hastened, through certain intermediaries, to commend to us moderation and indeed silence, and this in the interests of the OAU and with the purpose of avoiding hostility on the subject of problems which should be resolved within the context of our own continent.”
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