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GOETTINGEN, Germany, December 10, 2001 (LSN.ca) – The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has criticized the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The German-based group said Annan twice failed to prevent genocide – in 1994 in Rwanda and Srebrenica in 1995.

STP president Tilman Zuelch said that as the head of the United Nations peace-keeping mission at the time, Annan was well informed due to constant contact with the UN troops both in Rwanda and Bosnia. A human rights organization with advisory status at the Economics and Social Council of the UN, STP reports that in the case of Rwanda he received exact information on the planned genocide three months before it occurred but held back and failed to prevent the genocide. “He was silent during those hundred days in which up to a million Rwandans were murdered,” said Zuelch.

Zeulch also slammed the massacre of some 8,000 people in the UN “safe-zone” in Srebrenica. AFP reports that in 1999 the UN admitted partial responsibility for the Srebrenica massacre; Annan said the incident would “haunt the UN forever”.

See the group’s press release (in German):  https://www.gfbv.de/presse/annan.htm

See the AFP coverage:  https://sg.news.yahoo.com/011209/1/22sa1.html

See related coverage from LifeSite:  https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/aug/010822.html#2 https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1998/dec/981210b.html