Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Security staff insisted that he hedge any pledge to stop future genocides since it was not a mission that the U.S. military was prepared to take on,? says TIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson, traveling with the President. ?So, even though he gave a moving speech in Rwanda about the need to stop future genocides, there's no new American policy or military doctrine for getting involved in genocidal wars in Africa...
...Africa you see on CNN--Rwanda, Ethiopia, that's just a 5 second soundbite," he adds. "That's not all of Africa...
...over yet. "Albright is determinedly dancing around one obvious thing," says TIME New York Bureau Chief Marguerite Michaels, who watches the region. "The fighting in Rwanda and eastern Congo, far from having ceased, is getting worse...
That was clear enough after Thursday's massacre; Michaels is worried about how far the Hutu-Tutsi conflict could escalate. Will Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, a Tutsi, send troops on behalf of his friend Paul Kagame in Rwanda? Will Kabila? There are rumblings that Tanzania favors the Hutu side, as may Angola. "No one is sure who will intervene," Michaels says, "and if so, on whose side. This could very quickly get out of control...
...officials believe that the killers, rebels against the Rwandan Tutsi government of Paul Kagame, fled west back to bases in Congo -- a disheartening prospect since border-crossing raids brought Rwanda and then-Zaire to the brink of war in 1996. Kagame's solution then was drastic: lending military and financial support to the bush rebellion of Laurent Kabila, which swept westward across Zaire to the capital of Kinshasa and renamed the country Congo with Kabila as its new president...