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...conversation with TIME last week, U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali vented his frustration at the inaction of the world community in Rwanda...
...used to be involved in a classic civil war or international war. Suddenly we have something new, which is the failed state. No more government. Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda: no more government. Military people discovered that they're deployed not for a few months, but maybe for a few years, because they can't leave until the country is reconstructed. Then the members say, "But do we want to be there forever? What for?" It begins with no solution in Yugoslavia. And no solution in Somalia. There has been a multiplication of similar situations, along with the feeling that...
President Clinton said he'll ask Congress for $320 million more in aid for Rwanda's dying refugees -- bringing the U.S. contribution up to almost $500,000. Clinton's also set to send 200 U.S. troops to the Rwandan capital to set up an operations base at the airport. The president said the American humanitarian effort won't cease "until the dying stops and the refugees have returned." Two thousand refugees die every day. Administration officials said the operation could create a corridor of waystations to help refugees returning from Zaire, if the first two weeks go well...
...authorized deployment of 5,500 troops two months ago to keep the peace in Rwanda, so why are only 550 there? Because the governments that promised to supply those troops haven't equipped them to go, the U.N.'s top peacekeeping official complained today. Undersecretary-General Kofi Annan said the troops should "be deployed at full strength rapidly" to help steer the Rwandan refugees back home. For now, the mostly Canadian U.N. force is mostly on its own until 4,000 or more U.S. troops arrive within days. BTW: Americans have contributed at least $39 million in aid to Rwandan...
Defense Secretary William Perry said the 750 U.S. troops aiding Rwandan refugees in Zaire and Uganda will swell to at least 4,000 within a week. And that number could further grow if the Pentagon sets up a "way station" system to draw fearful Hutu refugees back to Rwanda, where rival Tutsi now hold power. Meanwhile, a team of U.S. soldiers will assess the conditions in Rwanda's capital to determine if food, water and other supplies could be delivered faster using facilities inside the country -- though Perry said he hadn't yet decided on sending in a large force...