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Without the return of the Hutu, the Tutsi victory, along with the landscape, will remain empty indeed. "Their country is like a desert," crowed former government official Jean Bosco Barayagwiza before going into hiding. "How do you rule a nation when there is nobody left to govern?" The R.P.F. has begun by choosing as the new Prime Minister Faustin Twangirimungu, a Hutu moderate like many killed alongside the Tutsi during the pogroms. This hardly indicates , a blanket Hutu amnesty: R.P.F. vice chairman Patrick Mazimhaka claims that genocide was "party policy" on the part of the Habyarimana regime. Yet he insists...
What remains to be seen is whether the Palestinians can truly govern themselves. Working as a paramilitary directorate during the years of alternating terrorism and diplomatic talks was simple enough; creating a true representative government could pose real problems...
...would also stand as an important victory for the international community: an unjust regime would be toppled; a brutal embargo would be lifted. What's more, say some experts, this is the first -- and most essential -- step toward getting Haiti on its feet. "There is no way to govern without restoring President Aristide," says Robert White, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador. "So, regrettable as it is, military intervention is less regrettable than the U.N., U.S. and Organization of American States losing out to a bunch of uniformed gangsters...
...life of my country." But that's what all politicians say. Vargas Llosa the writer is now willing to dig a bit deeper into his reasoning. "If the decadence, the impoverishment, the terrorism, and the multiple crises of Peruvian society had not made it an almost impossible challenge to govern such a country, it would never have entered my head to accept such a task." Could any motivation be more quixotic than that...
...advocates allege that a ballot referendum would violate the "home rule" provisions of the state constitution, which affirms the right of local communities to govern themselves...