Word: rwanda
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...Bill Clinton was the most accommodating, sensitive, multilateralist President one can imagine, and yet we know that al-Qaeda began the planning for Sept. 11 precisely during his presidency. Clinton made humility his vocation, apologizing variously for African slavery, for internment of Japanese Americans, for not saving Rwanda. He even decided that Britain should return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. A lot of good that did us. Bin Laden issued his Declaration of War on America in 1996--at the height of the Clinton Administration's hyperapologetic, good-citizen internationalism...
...months after a suicide bombing in Riyadh killed 35 people and prompted authorities to start to crack down on suspected militants, and a month after Western governments issued warnings advising against travel to the kingdom. At the time, Saudi officials reacted angrily to the alerts. Called to Account RWANDA Four former cabinet members went on trial at a U.N. tribunal in Tanzania. The four, who are accused of masterminding the 1994 inter-ethnic violence that resulted in the killing of about 800,000 people, denied nine charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. Sudden Crisis SRI LANKA President Chandrika Kumaratunga...
...multilateral effort, and few can argue with the result. A U.N.-backed, NATO-led effort to save Kosovo from the territorial machinations of Slobodan Milosevic and Yugoslavia was equally successful. It is U.N. bodies like the International Criminal Tribunal that are striving to bring justice to Yugoslavia and Rwanda...
Perhaps it can be said that the U.N. has had its shortfalls as well. But those failures can point the world in the direction of positive U.N. reform. Almost universally, those who list U.N. “failures,” such as non-intervention in Rwanda, criticize the U.N. for its inability to act. This criticism misses the point. Just as U.N. successes are in large part the result of international enthusiasm for U.N. projects, so too are U.N. failures often the result of a lack of firm support and commitment from member nations...
...signed up four generic-drug companies and helped them cut production costs, reducing by one-third the price of AIDS -fighting drugs. The firms - three in India and one in South Africa - will still profit because of the high volume guaranteed by the Foundation, which is working with Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania (which account for one-third of the world's AIDS cases), and more than a dozen countries in the Caribbean region. Clinton spoke with TIME Europe editor ERIC POOLEY...