Word: ghali
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TIME: U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has called on African nations to supply a peacekeeping force for Rwanda. Will South Africa take part...
Sanctions, the response of choice at the U.N., are widely regarded as useless in this case: Rwanda's economy is already destitute, and people are fighting just to stay alive. As the situation worsens, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali is looking for about 8,000 troops to send into the country to stop the killing. He has asked the Organization of African Unity to take on the responsibility, but has had no response...
...again in the capital, Kigali. In what U.N. workers described as the biggest and fastest exodus they had ever seen, more than 250,000 people poured into neighboring Tanzania. By late Friday, lines at the border stretched for five miles. In New York City U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali urged the Security Council to reconsider its decision to withdraw most of its forces and asked that peacekeepers be permitted to use force to prevent further massacres similar to those he said had claimed 200,000 victims in the past three weeks...
...peacekeepers would not have the resources to cope. Chastened by the experience of Somalia, the U.N. Security Council is unwilling to intervene with force, and, for the most part, the troops in Kigali are confined to their barracks. Belgium is withdrawing its 400 soldiers; U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali told the Security Council last week that unless there is a cease-fire soon, he will recommend the withdrawal of all but a skeletal staff of 250 peacekeepers. "If we are just cooped up watching them pound each other, then we have to seriously assess the risk of keeping these...
...enclave of Gorazde, once designated a "safe area" by the U.N., shuddered under continued attack by Serb troops. The U.S. urged the U.N. to offer some protection to the besieged city's 65,000 inhabitants by rushing more peacekeeping forces into the area. On Saturday, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali instructed U.N. troops to use "all available means" to reverse Serb gains there...