KIGALI, Rwanda — President Bush, expressing frustration that the United Nations has had a difficult time raising and deploying a sufficient peacekeeping force in Darfur, said Tuesday that the 1994 Rwandan genocide should have taught the world not to ignore signs of budding brutality.
Bush said Rwanda would get $12 million of the $100-million contribution the U.S. is making this year to U.N. peacekeeping efforts in Darfur. The money will help provide training and vehicles for the 2,400 troops that Rwanda has said it will add to a 7,000-troop deployment in the troubled area of western Sudan.
Darfur has shadowed Bush during his five-nation trip to Africa, even as he has sought to focus on political progress and the fight against diseases.
Bush defended his decision not to send U.S. troops to Darfur, where a rebellion erupted in 2003, and to rely on a force being assembled by the U.N. and the African Union.
