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The United Nations lacked the support of its members to prevent the genocide in Rwanda that killed more than 500,000 minority Tutsis, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday. “I think the key here is lack of will. Where there is will, a lot can be done,” Annan told journalists in Nairobi, Kenya. Annan, on an eight-nation African tour, dismissed an allegation in The New Yorker magazine that he knew Hutu extremists were preparing the slaughter but himself prevented UN peacekeepers from intervening. “It’s an old story and the issue has been around for quite a while and lots of explanations have been given,” Annan said. “Often with the brutal and cold . . . wisdom of hindsight we can always rearrange things and always know better.”
