Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What was lacking for so long was enforcement, but the international community has been building a set of rules and procedures that are proving surprisingly effective. The impetus for recent reforms is the awful carnage committed in Rwanda and Bosnia. The U.N. Security Council responded by setting up special-purpose war-crimes tribunals in the Hague and Arusha, Tanzania. Last July, 160 countries sent delegates to Rome to prepare a statute for a permanent international criminal court, and 120 voted for it. The U.S. refused to go along, but nonetheless the new tribunal will come into existence when 60 countries...
Several of the presenters linked the Holocaust to modern-day examples of genocide, such as that in Bosnia and in Rwanda...
...recently we have witnessed famine in Somalia, North Korea and Sudan. We have seen the bloody ethnic conflict that occurred during the break-up of Yugoslavia and the continuing violence in the Middle East. And we have stood by and done nothing in the face of a genocide in Rwanda...
During his African tour last March, Clinton stopped in Rwanda and eloquently apologized to the survivors gathered at Kigali airport. He used the phrase "never again"--two words of grave historical weight. He said, "And never again must we be shy in the face of the evidence." Shy? In any case, did he mean...
...dangerous part now is not the President's distraction by scandal and the prospect of impeachment. The risk lies, rather, in something that the Lewinsky-Rwanda convergence shows: Clinton's willingness to use words as if he did not understand that they have real meanings and consequences, as if his intense, fleeting sincerity--his shoeshine and his smile, or his wagging finger, or sidelong laser glance, or his bitten lip: his sheer performance--were sufficient. We are headed into historical country where they are not. And they never were...