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That the U.N. in 1996 found such a person to restore its sense of direction and purpose was a near miracle. But out of the U.N.'s failures in Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda came Kofi Annan, the career international civil servant who had participated in these disasters yet somehow survived and learned from them. When the situation in Bosnia reached its low point in August 1995, Annan, as acting Secretary-General, authorized the NATO bombing of the Bosnian Serbs that paved the road to the Dayton Peace Agreement. That action, more than anything else, convinced American officials, including me, that...
...have all been bystanders to genocide," Samantha Power wrote in the opening of her 2002 book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. "The crucial question is why." Combining archival research with her own reporting from the killing fields of Rwanda and Bosnia, Power, a former freelance journalist and war correspondent, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, set out to explain why the U.S., at the height of its power, failed to stop the major genocides of the 20th century. Power's study examined U.S. responses to such horrors as the Ottoman massacre of the Armenians...
...world has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing of black Africans in western Sudan by Arab militias, a pogrom that allegedly has the support of the Sudanese government. An estimated 10,000 villagers have already been murdered. In May 1994, as genocide swept across RWANDA, TIME explored the inadequacy of the global response to a crisis that would ultimately claim 800,000 lives...
...TIME So far, the world has done little to stop the ethnic cleansing of black Africans in western Sudan by Arab militias, a pogrom that allegedly has the support of the Sudanese government. An estimated 10,000 villagers have already been murdered. In May 1994, as genocide swept across Rwanda, TIME explored the inadequacy of the global response to a crisis that would ultimately claim 800,000 lives...
...commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, the United Nations declared yesterday, April 7, to be the first “International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.” The United States—which, along with the rest of the world, sat idly by while 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered—has plenty to reflect upon. History has not looked kindly upon our inaction. In recent years former Administration officials, including Madeline Albright and President Clinton himself, have personally apologized for their failures...