Word: rwanda
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There is nothing that you or I or Bill Clinton or Kofi Annan can do about the hundreds of thousands who lost their lives in Rwanda and Bosnia. But at least the need for justice has been recognized--not just to salve our consciences and salvage our credibility, but to help reconcile the people who must deal with the aftermath of these tragedies and to prevent the past from a vengeful return. It is, after all that we did not do, the least that can be done...
...special ad hoc tribunals run by the United Nations, one for Bosnia, the other for Rwanda, are charged with the unenviable task of meting out justice to those accused of war crimes, and are frustrated by a lack of resources and cooperation from various countries. Despite these problems, the UN will convene a special conference in Rome this summer to try to work out the final details for a proposed International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide and war crimes...
...TIME: In Rwanda you used the loaded phrase "never again" to promise that the U.S. would never be shy in the face of evidence about genocide. Is that just rhetoric, or are you developing a new U.S. policy to intervene for humanitarian reasons when genocide occurs somewhere...
...Rwanda is known as the "Land of a Thousand Hills." Since 1994, when the country convulsed in genocidal spasms that killed 1 million people, it has mostly been a land of tears. As the country's Minister of State for Education--and at 34 the youngest member of the Cabinet--Bizimana must try to salvage a ravaged and traumatized generation of Rwandan children. It is a daunting task. More than 300,000 school-age children were orphaned by the war. The school system is crumbling and underfunded, and many of its teachers either perished in the slaughter four years...
From his fifth-floor office overlooking downtown Kigali, Jean-Pierre Bizimana surveys the landscape of a nation struggling to survive. The undulating countryside, full of rich volcanic soil, is rampant with disease and malnutrition. In much of rural Rwanda, fields lie fallow because there is no money for fertilizer and seeds. Ninety percent of the Rwandan population is unemployed. The average income is $180 a year, and life expectancy...