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.
Answer: He follows something
Explanation:
Name: Amaxas
Role: Adviser to Zeuss
Symbols: One flexing arm
Deeds: Discovered deoderant
This post of view is a person's thoughts, which is first person. First person is the reader reading as the character, and that's how this introductory line is written.
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