The speaker of a poem is sometimes the poet
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.
Macbeth is fearful about hearing the witches prediction about his future because killing the king was considered sinful so therefore he would be a sinner however he was excited about the prediction of his future because he would be a king meaning he would gain power.