Word: rwanda
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...easy to recite a litany of locales (to begin: Rwanda, Chechnya, Kampuchea, Myanmar, Burundi, Uganda) where the U.N. has done nothing in the face of evil. To be fair, part of this blame falls on the individual members of the Security Council for lacking the will and resolve to commit themselves to action. In some horrific cases—notably Kampuchea of the 1970s and Chechnya today—veto-bearing Security Council members were directly complicit in massive human rights violations...
...government forces in Monrovia marred the formal takeover by the U.N. of peacekeeping duties. The 3,500 members of the interim West African force already in Liberia formed the nucleus of the new U.N. Mission to Liberia (UNMIL). The last of 200 U.S. soldiers left the country. Easy Victory RWANDA With 74% of the vote, President Paul Kagame's alliance won the first multiparty legislative elections since the country's independence from Belgium...
Democratic Enough? Rwanda In the first presidential elections since the 1994 genocide, incumbent leader Paul Kagame - the rebel general credited with ousting the Hutu government that orchestrated the killings, and who has led the country as part of a transitional government since 2000 - retained control with a 95% share of the vote. But while Kagame claimed "Rwanda is on the right path," defeated challenger Faustin Twagiramungu was quick to reject the ballot, claiming his campaign was stymied by intimidation...
...blue helmets" [GLOBAL AGENDA, Aug. 4]. But it was the lack of U.S. and other major-power support for understaffed U.N. forces that was at the root of the failures that Elliott cited. U.S. pressure in the Security Council to withdraw rather than enlarge the U.N. peacekeeping forces in Rwanda contributed to the severity of the massacre. The Dutch peacekeepers who failed to act in Bosnia did not have adequate support or a mandate from the five permanent members of the Security Council--and the U.S. did not push for additional resources. And it is difficult to blame...
...humanitarian purposes. George W. Bush should definitely send troops to Liberia, regardless of whether doing so is a matter of national interest for the U.S. On many occasions the U.S. has been way too slow in taking action, most notably during the beginning of World War II and in Rwanda. Michael Swieca New York City