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

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

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.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

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