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This time the desperate nation was Burundi. Vicious fighting erupted in the central African state when military officers from the Tutsi tribe murdered President Melchior Ndadaye, a member of the rival Hutus. As the attempted coup collapsed, both tribes massacred thousands of people and put hundreds of thousands to flight. Please, government officials begged the United Nations, send us peacekeepers...
Last week the U.S. said no. James Jonah, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, had warned Burundi not to expect any help because the Security Council "has shown no inclination to take on any new operations." In embattled Angola a recent request for an increase in U.N. military observers has gone unanswered. And in Somalia grudging participants are pressing Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to rethink that faltering operation...
...Burundi Massacres...
Following a military coup in which Burundi's President was assassinated, tribal fighting has killed thousands. After the Oct. 21 slaying of President Melchior Ndadaye and four top aides, the army briefly seized power, but no group has taken firm control of the African country...
...applied across the board. Military intervention cannot be restricted to what U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali crudely referred to as a "rich man's war." It logically implies that U.N. intervention in Eastern Europe should be matched by similar action in other catastrophic conflicts: in Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Burma and elsewhere. By the same token, this new world cannot be managed unilaterally by the U.S. but must instead work from the consent of all major powers around the globe. It would have to be supported by their armies and their treasuries...