Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials say they've learned of plans by Rwanda's new Tutsi-controlled government to force 800,000 of 2 million Hutu refugees from camps in the country's southeast. That location is the same "safe haven" French peacekeepers abandoned in August. U.N. military observers said the Rwandan Patriotic Front (R.P.F.), which won a civil war three months ago, now wants to displace the refugees by Oct. 25. Meanwhile, the U.N. says, conditions are so bad in the camps that mothers are abandoning children at orphanages to ensure that their offspring are fed --the result of armed ex-soldiers hogging...
...gather information on violent dictatorships and terrorist groups cross the line into aiding and encouraging bloodshed and oppression? It is a problem the CIA faces when recruiting agents in the Iraqi secret police, the Chinese prison system and among the Hutu and Tutsi tribes that slaughtered each other in Rwanda, to mention only a few of the repugnant people it has dealt with. In Haiti specifically, says a White House official, "the CIA has bought and stolen information from all sides" -- even though "we knew that the people we were paying were killing and torturing people." But, he says...
Study after study has shown the desensitizing effect that visual violence has. It came home to me in a different way. Watching the news with my dad, a bloody scene accompanied a story on Rwanda. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him cringe...
...need for some retribution is building in the country. Pasteur Bizimungu, the Rwandan president, has warned that further delays could spark violence. "We can't release those persons," he said, "If we release them, there is the risk that there may be acts of revenge." Acts of revenge in Rwanda carry with them the threat of catastrophe...
Mounting a tribunal is a course no small task. Logistical and political support must be forthcoming from the Western nations. The benefits of prompt action will be great, for Rwanda and the world. The costs of delay could be a return to genocide...