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...invincible with victory in the cold war, had been unwilling for three and a half years to stop a small-time thug from unleashing genocide in Europe. In fact, the failure to stop Karadzic or to bring him to justice, along with the failure to stop the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, did produce soul-searching in the West. When Bill Clinton ordered the attack on Milosevic's forces in Kosovo, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and others hoped that the U.S. was leading the way to an era of humanitarian intervention based on international...
...Sudan is toying with us, toying with human dignity, toying with the authority of this Council." Stagno said that Khartoum's promotion of Haroun and its refusal to arrest him is cynicism. He charged the Security Council with appeasing Khartoum, and he invoked the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda. "You could see people looking at their notes, thinking, Uh-oh, I can't read this official speech, I will look stupid," says an ICC official who was at the meeting. And then, to everyone's surprise, South Africa, which up until then under the direction of President Thabo Mbeki...
...despite such successes, international justice has gotten a bad rap over the past decade. The rap stems from the failure to arrest criminals like Karadzic and his military counterpart Ratko Mladic, the slow pace and steep expense of the trials at the ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the delays to the start of trials at the International Criminal Court (ICC). When Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the ICC, requested a warrant to arrest Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on charges of genocide a week before the Karadzic arrest, he was widely...
...election brings into question the integrity of all nations that champion democracy and freedom. If Zimbabwe had colossal oil reserves, would we see this sort of timidity from the country's neighbors and the Western powers? Why do we let corruption and death run rampant in countries like Rwanda and Zimbabwe when billions of dollars and thousands of lives are spent in Iraq? The so-called overseers of human rights - from the U.S. to the U.N. - have little more legitimacy than callous dictators like Mugabe. Daniel Kowbell, Toronto...
...both suggest that the worst standards of governance persist. On the other hand, the last few years have seen the rise of a new generation of leaders, subdued heroes who have replaced the titans of the past and emphasize self-reliance and good governance: men and women such as Rwanda's Paul Kagame, Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete and Botswana's Ian Khama. In that sense, the Zimbabwe crisis does indeed present a "moment of truth" for Africa's leaders, as Tanzanian U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro told delegates at an African Union...