Answer:
The 2nd and 3rd answer ;)
Well I have never heard of this book but from the sound of it I believe the answer would be B. However I could be wrong. <span />
Answer:
<u>Government officials downplayed the severity of the crimes committed.</u>
<u>Explanation:</u>
Remember, it was a question asked by a journalist to a US state department press conference in which the US spokeswoman Christine Shelley avoids applying the term "genocide" to the what was happening in <em>Rwanda</em>. Despite the fact that there had been an ethic cleansing of the Tutsi tribe, with more thousands of dead bodies on the streets. Thus, government officials initially showed a lack of admittance to the severity of what was happening in Rwanda.
You have to consider factors
A. Fiction and non-fiction can have a persuasive purpose.
It doesn't just have to be one genre, you just have to make it interesting, to grab the readers attention. That's basically what persuasive means.
