Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is more acute than a misdiagnosis of our social problems. The most pernicious effects of this racial corporatism are felt in faraway places, in Bosnia and Rwanda and Turkey and Chechnya. While America is hardly threatened by a race war, its existence as a unified state has always depended on relegating ethnicity to the perimeter of politics...
...beggar looking forlornly into the night sky at a constellation that resembles a dollar sign, is a misguided masterpiece that echoes his seemingly reasonable conclusions: Money spent on the space station would be better spent repairing decaying highways, feeding the homeless of Cambridge, saving lives in Bosnia and Rwanda and any number of unspecified "closer to home" projects. I don't mean to quibble with his assertion that these are in fact worthy causes; I contend, however, that the cause of Space Station Freedom is equally worthy...
...Airborne is considered one of Canada's best military formations, a crack 660-man unit founded in 1968 whose members have taken part in many overseas peacekeeping assignments for the U.N. A contingent from the regiment is currently serving in Rwanda. All 660 Airborne soldiers are scheduled to ship out in April to join a U.N. operation in Croatia, but that deployment may now be in jeopardy...
...revolutionary bloodshed, disease and famine. The developed nations began to resemble weird updatings of Hieronymous Bosch: panoramas of tormented bodies, lashed, flailed and torn by the instruments of material self-gratification. Secular leaders dithered and disagreed and then did nothing about the slow death of Bosnia, the massacres in Rwanda...
John Paul was personally affected by the turmoil of 1994. He could not make planned visits to Beirut and Sarajevo because enmities on the ground were too volatile. Rwanda dealt him particular grief: an estimated 85% of Rwandans are Christians, and more than 60% of those Roman Catholics. Some priests were accessories to massacre. The new faith was unable to overcome tribal conflict...