Word: rwanda
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...still confronting the memory of their worst crisis. Today the Janjaweed are similarly butchering black people in Darfur by the thousands, yet the U.N. has refused to call it genocide. Maybe the tragedy will fit that definition when thousands of human skulls are stacked up in memorials as in Rwanda. What is more genocidal than the story you reported: a 1-year-old baby boy being tossed up in the air and shot? Please, U.N. members, unite and help the Africans now. Stanley Washynton Zurich The situation in Darfur reminded me of the lawless state of nature described...
Retired Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian who commanded the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda in 1994, said that smaller countries have the responsibility to act as well...
...national interest." The Howard government committed troops to lead the U.N. peacekeeping effort in East Timor (about 1,000 remain there). But it sees Labor's faith in the U.N. as unrealistic, given the world body's failure to enforce its resolutions on Iraq or bring peace to Rwanda, Kosovo, Bosnia or Sudan. In a post-9/11 world of terrorism, black-market nukes and bioweapons, the U.S. is the best hope for Australian security - and the world's - says Downer. America's "unrivaled intelligence and military resources provide the most potent weaponry to disrupt and destroy the terrorists. Through...
...word has done little more than set off a new round of bureaucratic shuffling. Some who recall the Holocaust and Rwanda don't believe Darfur measures up. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has said he will appoint a commission to investigate the charges. European ministers, who have been reluctant even to acknowledge ethnic cleansing, are scrambling to draft legal briefs. The Arab League and Sudan have scoffed at the U.S. claim, charging Bush with having an anti-Islamic agenda. Meanwhile, the killings, rapes and torchings continue...
...only hope for peace is an international protection force. But so far, only Nigeria, Tanzania and Rwanda have offered troops, and the proposed force of 4,000 won't deter attacks unless the soldiers are equipped and paid for by the major powers, are given a mandate to protect civilians and are eventually reinforced by 10,000 additional troops from other nations. Yet amid all the talk of oil embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes, no statesman--not Powell and not Annan--has attempted to rally the money, troops and political cooperation needed for such a force...