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The United Nations is speeding up its investigations into the mass killings in Rwanda's three-month civil war, in an attempt to head off the new Rwandan government's plans for its own trials. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali gave a three-member investigative commission up to four...
So far the Clinton administration has pledged $150 million in aid for Rwanda as well as up to 4,000 US military personnel to coordinate airdrops. UN. Secretary General Boutros-Ghali estimates that the effort will run approximately $434 million. Nonetheless the efforts at best would reduce the spread of...
Boutros-Ghali: The U.N. chief speaks his mind
In a conversation with TIME last week, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali vented his frustration at the inaction of the world community in Rwanda:
Meanwhile, at the U.N., Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was revising his figures upward as he urged a massive relief effort. The early estimate was $274 million, but "at this very moment, as I am speaking," he said on Friday, "Rwanda's needs are constantly growing." He put the new...