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Robert Krueger - What
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President
Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate:
“Kathleen
and Bob Krueger’s outspoken defense of a suffering
population helped advance human rights in
Burundi
, where after decades of violence, the country now is
moving positively toward truth, reconciliation, and
peace.”
President
Bill Clinton:
“In
Burundi
, or
Rwanda
, if we didn’t have brave people there, like Ambassador
Krueger, it would be even harder to avoid human tragedy.
We don’t need half-strength and part-time
diplomacy in a world of fast-moving opportunities and
twenty-four-hour-a-day crises…Our symbols need to be
people like Ambassador Krueger, who risked his life to
keep people alive in
Burundi
.”
Ted
Koppel on ABC News, Nightline, April 25, 1996:
“In
a minute, you’ll meet U.S. Ambassador Robert Krueger.
He and I recorded an interview together which is
likely to drive some people at the State Department up the
wall. Ambassador
Krueger speaks his mind a little more freely than is
customary for people in his line of work…There is a lot
about Bob Krueger that exemplifies the best in America.
He appears deeply principled, a man with a profound
sense of right and wrong.”
Jean-Marie
Ngendahayo
(Member
of Burundi Parliament and minister of Communications,
1993, Foreign Minister of Burundi, 1994-5, Member of
Burundi Parliament and Chairman of Foreign Relations
Committee, 2005):
“Robert
Krueger is certainly the most influential and the best
ambassador ever to serve in
Burundi
since we received our independence in 1962.
He fought for the preservation and consolidation of
democracy with all his heart and his intelligence.
He never took partisan sides, as many were tempted
to do. On the
contrary, he based every single statement and any action
on his own careful inquiries made on the ground in every
corner of
Burundi
. He saved
many lives and gave hope to those who lost their cherished
ones.”
And
speaking of Sen. Krueger’s soon to be published book, From Bloodshed to Hope: Our Embassy Years During Genocide in Burundi,
Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
states:
“"The
story of
Burundi
is our story: not simply the story of Africans, or
Americans, but of all of us. . .this is an
important book about
Africa
. But
the practices of tyranny, of ethnic and cultural division
and oppression, and of unattended suffering and apathetic
inattention, take place in various forms around the world.
This account, written with pain and compassion, but with
scrupulous specificity, makes that clear. After its
searing report, it offers a hopeful vision of the budding
green shoots of a democratic future for
Burundi
that even now seem to be emerging."
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