Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western governments are willing to risk their own soldiers to help Rwanda. Public outrage in Britain may be growing, but Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd answered an opposition member's challenge to act in Rwanda with the lament that there was no clear mission for British troops. Memories of the 18 soldiers lost in Somalia make the U.S. especially reluctant to intervene in a largely ethnic bloodbath in a strategically insignificant nation. Although both the U.S. and Britain voted two weeks ago in the Security Council to send a 5,500-strong U.N. force to Rwanda, Italy is the only...
...former colonial powers that used to intervene regularly have devolved responsibility to the U.N. European leaders agree with the U.S. that African nations should take the lead in policing Rwanda, even though they lack the money and equipment to carry out such a perilous mission successfully. Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal and Zimbabwe have promised troops, and the U.N. hopes Egypt and Nigeria will also contribute. That only intensifies suspicion that the white West's refusal to come to the aid of black Africa is racist. Wrote columnist Simon Hoggart in the British daily Guardian: "Nobody you know has ever been...
Long before Rwanda's descent into chaos, Western donors had grown exhausted by the problems that beset sub-Saharan Africa: the ceaseless wars, ethnic violence, political turmoil, massive poverty and persistent famine. The region leads the world in the number of refugees and people displaced within their own country's borders, surpassing South Asia, North Africa and the Middle East combined...
...might work." Since the U.N. force was authorized, arguments have continued about what it should do, where the troops should be stationed, what their exact mission would be and how they would exit. U.S. officials question what any peacekeeping force can do unless both of the warring sides in Rwanda agree to a cease-fire...
...killings might bring the only kind of contribution the international community is willing to make: a massive influx of humanitarian aid. Already the U.S. and many other countries have donated tens of millions of dollars in food, blankets and medicines to the handful of international-aid organizations still in Rwanda. But the fighting makes delivery of most relief supplies nearly impossible. "Money is not enough," says Ibrahim Osman of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. "Without serious military intervention, Rwanda cannot be saved...