A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the Jew in Europe, and we were not realizing - In our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.