Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somewhere in the corridors of power in Washington stands a metaphorical closet jam-packed with Rwandan skeletons. President Clinton admitted as much last year when he apologized to Rwanda for the West's failure to act in 1994 when faced with overwhelming evidence that genocide was under way in the central African country. But a U.N.-commissioned report released Thursday makes the point more sharply: The United Nations chose to ignore reports of the impending bloodbath, and its inaction was due in no small part to the desire of Washington and its allies to turn a blind...
...Somalia debacle, which had been badly managed by both the U.S. and the U.N., Washington didn't want to get involved in another complex conflict in Africa." Of course, while the solutions were complex, the numbers were devastatingly simple: 800,000 people were killed in one month in Rwanda as Hutu mobs butchered their Tutsi neighbors...
...order any U.N. action that's not authorized by the member states." And the most influential of those, the U.S., wasn't prepared to go ahead with a decisive response. "The best we can hope for out of this," says Dowell, "is that the lessons of Rwanda are remembered the next time the international community gets wind of an impending massacre...
While covering "ethnic cleansing" in Rwanda, Gutman noted that the U.S. government almost never used the word 'genocide' in reference to the conflict...
After covering conflicts in Rwanda and Russia, Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Roy Gutman realized that humanitarian law was being violated. But without knowing the specifics of humanitarian law, he couldn't make his coverage as effective as he would have liked...