Word: rwanda
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...Administration counters with a moral argument: the U.S. should do what it can to foster democracy and remove a murderous tyranny. Well, then, say critics, why not use military force in Bosnia or Rwanda, where worse atrocities have been committed, and on a much larger scale? Because they are far away and would require a major effort entailing heavy casualties with uncertain support from allies, Clinton's aides rejoin. The U.S. has a special obligation to promote democracy and oppose tyrannous atrocity in its own hemisphere. Haiti is one place where that can be done quickly, with worldwide backing...
...agree on when that life begins), each child a potential source of delight. Surely there are other philosophies -- Hitler and his epigones in Bosnia represent one -- but they cannot claim the label moral. When we start thinking of the neighbors' kids as pollutants, we're on our way to Rwanda writ large...
...peacekeepers last night discovered 4,000 Rwandan bodies in two grisly caches. Half, found in the country's southwest, were not buried, and the rest were tossed in a mass grave 78 miles from Rwanda's capital of Kigali. The corpses are believed to be Tutsi murdered by the majority Hutu during the recent three-month civil war -- and just a fraction of the half-million thought dead. The find increases the pressure on U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to set up a war-crimes tribunal for the perpetrators before the surviving Tutsi -- who won the war -- take matters...
With almost no debate, the House passed a resolution by voice vote calling on President Clinton to end U.S. humanitarian operations "in or around" Rwanda by Oct. 7. Several lawmakers, their attention focused on a pending U.S. invasion of Haiti, said they wanted to avoid entanglements abroad. Clinton has authorized $250 million in Rwandan aid since April, and only 670 U.S. troops remain...
Soldiers of Rwanda's new Tutsi-led government began trickling into a formerly French-protected "safe zone" in the country's southwest -- the last territory not under the victorious rebels' control. United Nations officials worry that about 500,000 Hutus there, fearing Tutsi reprisals, might flee to the already-deluged refugee camps in neighboring Zaire. The U.N. officials cited scattered reports of apparent revenge killings by Tutsi officials, even though the new government has pledged to take no revenge for Hutu massacres of at least half a million Tutsi brethren during Rwanda's three-month civil war. Meanwhile, the defeated...