Word: rwanda
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Perhaps most impressive is its coverage of world affairs. At a time when the broadcast networks are cutting back on their overseas coverage, Channel One has sent its squad of nine correspondents, ranging in age from 18 to 28, to Haiti, Rwanda, Bosnia and other global hot spots. Their stories frequently run three or four minutes--enormous by network-news standards--and have an immediacy that the young audience can relate to. Reporting from Rwanda, correspondent Anderson Cooper took viewers along on a trip through the country in which his car got stuck...
United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali pledged to honor Rwanda's demand that the U.N. end its two-year peacekeeping mission, which officially expires this Friday. Military forces could be gone within three months. Though millions of Hutu refugees from the losing side of Rwanda's violent civil war fear revenge from victorious Tutsis should they venture home, the Kigali government insists there is no need for an international police force within its borders. That's true up to a point, Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis reports: "The government can provide security for the Tutsis, but there...
...nearly full eclipse. A world that once saw U.N. personnel as angels of redemption witnessed the sight last December of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali enduring jeers on the streets of Sarajevo. Earlier last year, the peacekeeping sentinel sat on his hands as a volcanic outbreak of bloodshed in Rwanda engulfed half a million people. What appears now to be a prospect for peace in Bosnia has not afforded any graceful exit for the U.N.: only after the Western governments took over the trigger and American diplomacy entered the breach did a settlement begin to take shape...
Trouble is, the U.N. simply cannot do everything. Governments ask it to do too much already. Clearly, at least, the institution can no longer stretch its peacekeeping duties to every emergency that arises unless member nations--13 of which refused a U.N. call to rescue poor Rwanda--are prepared to face with muscle any aggression against Blue Helmets...
Like everyone in the prison, the women have been accused of genocide but none has had a formal court hearing due to the shambles that mass murder and war left of Rwanda's justice system...