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...first foreign head of state to visit Somalia after famine struck in 1992 and she was among the first to go to Rwanda after the 1994 genocide there...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Campaign | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...commission had been created four years earlier but saw its credibility suffer through crises in Rwanda...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Next Campaign | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...world order. And there are other peaceful examples, such as Czechoslovakia, which separated quietly. In Africa colonial powers did not draw borders to accommodate different tribes, and perhaps that is the reason for the ever reappearing ethnic conflict between Hutu and Tutsi, who were bundled into one state (Rwanda). Isn't it time to realize that every nation or group of people with a common descent, language and history should have the right of self-government? JAN RIJN ZEEVAART Pretoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

PLEADED GUILTY. JEAN KAMBANDA, 42, former Prime Minister of Rwanda, to genocide and crimes against humanity; before a U.N. tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania. Half a million people were slaughtered during his regime in 1994. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...smudge on Kofi?s halo? The New Yorker magazine today reported that U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan had been made aware of the planned genocide by Hutu nationalists in Rwanda in 1994, and had ordered U.N. peacekeeping forces not to intervene to stop the slaughter. The unflappable Annan has not denied the report, but says the U.N. acts within parameters set by the political will of the major powers. TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell agrees: ?Most people at the U.N. believe that Kofi had no choice in Rwanda. He would have needed enough troops and the major powers? willingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kofi Under Fire | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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