Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TIME: U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has called on African nations to supply a peacekeeping force for Rwanda. Will South Africa take part...
...pictures are as appalling as any that have come across global television screens, yet no one is calling for direct intervention to stop the month-old killing spree in Rwanda. However troubled they might be by the scale and ferocity of the slaughter, Western nations have offered little more than emotional expressions of sympathy for the victims...
...sunniest version of South Africa's destiny, the country, being the strongest economy in Africa, will begin to lead the continent into the 21st century. But everyone's mind entertained a dark, simultaneous vision of disintegration: of economic disaster and tribal war. Images of Rwanda's Tutsi and Hutu hacking one another to death in inconceivable numbers stayed on the retina, a kind of warning. Africa, after all, has a talent for apocalypses -- droughts and famines, annihilating plagues and slaughters. Still, even the occasional apocalypse is not necessarily a continent's final destiny. Europe's history too has been...
More Horror in Rwanda...
Actually, the U.S. embassy in Nairobi is busy dealing with cases of American evacuees from Rwanda who have sought refuge in Kenya! In addition, seasoned journalists, based at the International Press Centre in Nairobi, are covering more important events in the region. Perhaps Mr. Gell will one day be able to do something similar...