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...shambles there now--a false peace broken, power-mad rebels imperiling a U.N. mission as they reignite a vicious civil war--defies the international community's good intentions. Many are rushing to tack another "failure" to the list of ill-fated operations from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia. The credibility of U.N. peacekeeping is under siege again and so is the wisdom of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's--and the Clinton Administration's--doctrine of humanitarian intervention...
...technological terms what is an age-old cultural problem: that all the globalism in the world does not erase (and may in fact intensify) the differences between us. Corporate bodies stress connectedness, borderless economies, all the wired communities that make up our worldwide webs; those in Chechnya, Kosovo or Rwanda remind us of much older forces. And even as America exports its dotcom optimism around the world, many other countries export their primal animosities to America. Get in a cab near the Capitol, say, or the World Trade Center and ask the wrong question, and you are likely to hear...
...Inferno, which takes its name and epigraph from Dante, is Rwanda, Zaire, Chechnya and Kosovo. It is gruesome stuff, some of the most grisly and horrifying photography I have ever seen, and certainly not right for you if your tastes fall on the squeamish side of Diane Arbus. Nachtwey surpasses in pure disgust value even Joel-Peter Witkin, who is known for raiding Mexican morgues in search of subjects. In one Nachtwey photograph taken in Rwanda in 1994, a carcass lies rotting in front of a church; the fact that it hasn't been removed hints that there are more...
...will the U.N. do its job if it can't protect its own soldiers? Its peacekeepers entered Sierra Leone determined not to repeat embarrassing failures in Somalia, Rwanda and Angola. Even before last week's crisis, it announced plans to deploy an extra 5,000 troops, which would make the U.N. mission in Sierra Leone, or UNAMSIL, the largest peacekeeping force in the world. Yet last week Holbrooke acknowledged that Sierra Leone cast a "potential shadow" on all U.N. operations as he and a Security Council delegation met with Democratic Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila in Kinshasa to sign...
Thank you for your coverage of the infant-mortality rate and death of new mothers in Rwanda and for bringing to the world's attention--again--the terrible problems that still exist in parts of Africa [WORLD, April 17]. We are glad to learn how to respond to the International Rescue Committee and Netaid project, but please publish an address for those of us who don't have computers or don't want to use our credit card on the Internet. ANNE E. CORLEY Bristol...