Word: rwanda
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Among the countries represented are Afghanistan, Armenia, Burundi, Cambodia, Eritrea, Guatemala, Israel, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Sudan...
...Cross and other humanitarian NGOs. Even within peacekeeping missions, political motivations dominate. The Balkans region received thousands of peacekeepers during its conflict due to Western nations’ domination of the Security Council. Conversely, the Security Council was unable to fully support a weak peace-keeping operation in Rwanda in April 1994, when the first reports of genocide reached U.N. ears. Ultimately, the U.N.’s lack of interest in Rwanda led the Security Council to ignore the problem until 800,000 people were killed in just over 100 days...
...Imagine what would have happened if we had left,” LeMoyne said, comparing the 25-year commitment to those nations to the two or three years he said the U.N. has recently devoted to areas such as Kosovo and Rwanda. Often, he said, the “transition mechanism” that brings order to countries of chaos does not exist...
...Balkans, as saying, "You don't reply to fascism with relief supplies, and you don't counter ethnic cleansing with reception centers for the displaced." Oxfam called for a cease-fire during the Rwandan genocide, but as an observer pointed out, that would have left half of Rwanda in the hands of those Hutu perpetrating the genocide and thus would have allowed them to finish what they had started in the zone they controlled. Grotesquely, the presence of humanitarians, in one aid expert's words, "far from representing a bulwark against evil, [may become] in fact one of its appendages...
Peace in the world will not be achieved by attacking Iraq. Peace will come when a nation like the U.S. understands that we are all part of the same human species and what happens to those in Rwanda or Zimbabwe or Iraq or India is as important as what happens to people in New York City. Adam Hess Cape Town...