Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human rights activist and a scholar clashed yesterday in a discussion at the Law School on humanitarian intervention in Iraq, Bosnia and Somalia...
...Based on what had earlier gone on [in the area], it seemed over-whelmingly probable that a retaking of the area by Iraq would result in genocide," Anderson said. "There is a duty to intervene where genocide is imminent or happening...
...proof that the spectre of Vietnam still walks with the United States lies in Bosnia-Herzegovina. According to Gulf War rhetoric, U.S. intervention in Iraq was supposed to have shown that the United States could and would fight for freedom and basic human rights. If this is true, how is it that a situation as blatantly unjust and horrifying as the massacre of more than 100,000 people in Bosnia has gone unanswered...
...Prime Minister Tariq Aziz hinted that the impasse might be resolved speedily "if the British government shows sympathy toward the hardship of the Iraqi people." Translation: Britain must free $923 million in Iraqi assets frozen since Desert Storm. London has signaled no deal, vowing to keep the funds until Iraq meets United Nations-mandated disarmament and political guidelines. Ride and Wainwright remain hostages...
...Jonas Savimbi, an American client in the still festering Angolan civil war, and helped train forces loyal to Hissene Habre, the West's ousted candidate for leadership in Chad. Zaire chaired the U.N. Security Council in January 1991 when the crucial votes were taken to approve military action against Iraq in the Gulf War. A senior U.S. official says Washington suggested to Kuwait that Mobutu's vote in favor of allied military strikes be generously rewarded. That initiative could be viewed as an attempt to circumvent U.S. law, which has for several years banned all but humanitarian aid to Zaire...