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...charges that Washington had full knowledge of the genocide but "repeatedly and deliberately undermined all attempts to strengthen the U.N. military presence in Rwanda" after suffering losses in Somalia five months earlier. It also accuses France of allowing the perpetrators to escape to nearby Congo. Canada's former U.N. envoy STEPHEN LEWIS, one of seven authors, said the episode left "an almost incomprehensible scar of shame" on U.S. policy. "I don't know how MADELEINE ALBRIGHT lives with it." A State Department spokesman says that Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has talked of her frustration...
...desperation to free its 347 peacekeeping troops held hostage in Sierra Leone may undermine the larger objective of ending that unhappy country's malaise. Even as the U.N. military commander on the ground was reportedly planning an offensive into the rebel heartland Tuesday, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's envoy in Freetown urged restraint in counterattacks against the rebels for fear of endangering the hostages. Liberia's President Charles Taylor, a longtime ally and patron of the Revolutionary United Front rebels, had over the weekend secured the release of some 139 peacekeepers after being urged to intercede...
This week RUF forces have killed 7 U.N. peacekeepers and kidnapped 500. The RUF is no stranger to violence, as they have become a group notorious for flagrant human rights abuse. To intervene in the growing conflict and human rights violations, the United Nations sent an envoy of peacekeepers to enforce a peace accord between the rebels and the government signed last year. But the effort has been largely unsuccessful and has cast further doubt on the efficacy of U.N. peacekeeping methods...
...office a party led by a man who has publicly praised Hitler's labor policies and the Waffen SS (these comments were later retracted by Haider), the fourteen other member nations of the E.U. downgraded Austria's diplomatic status and boycotted the inauguration. Israel immediately withdrew its entire ministerial envoy and the United States temporarily withdrew its foreign minister for consult in Washington...
...forum, which will take place on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Science Center D, also features Manuel Rodriguez Orellana, the Puerto Rican Independence Party's special envoy to Washington...