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...stem from the fact that Kabila has been unable to thwart rebel guerrillas who've been operating from the Congo, says TIME correspondent Marguerite Michaels. Indeed, in April 1997 Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni told Michaels that if Kabila failed to stop rebels from crossing his borders to attack Rwanda and Uganda, "the regional alliance that brought Kabila to power would remove him just as easily." Now, says Michaels, the fighting "poses the question of whether Kabila's regional backers have turned...
Shattuck's has worked largely in areas of political and social instability. He has participated in diplomatic missions to forty countries, including the Czech Republic. His support for human rights has led him to Bosnia, Rwanda and many other wartorn countries...
...assistant secretary of state, he helped to negotiate the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia. He acted as U.S. human rights envoy to Bosnia in 1995 to investigate crimes against humanity. Shattuck was also a key player in establishing the international criminal tribunals for investigating the brutal killing in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia...
...August 1997, Shattuck wrote an article for The Christian Science Monitor that emphasized the importance of punishing those in Rwanda guilty of committing atrocities...
According to Joshua Rubenstine, Northeast regional director of Amnesty International, the previous director Jose Ayala-Lasso's response to the Rwanda genocide had been a "disaster." More than 500,000 people died in the spring 1994 slaughter...