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...moving to shield the LRA from the international court. It recently announced that it will set up a special tribunal to handle internally the war crimes of the LRA. Uganda's Foreign Affairs Minister Oryem Okello says that the tribunal will be comparable to that used in neighboring Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. (To complicate matters, Uganda's displaced have also accused government soldiers of atrocities during their time in the camps. But Uganda's proposed national tribunal will not handle cases of abuse by the army. Instead, the soldiers will be tried by preexisting courts-martial...
That's not to say all was well in the 1990s, especially in foreign policy. Responsibilities in places ranging from Bosnia to Rwanda to Afghanistan were shirked, and gathering dangers weren't dealt with. Still, the sour complaints and dire prognoses of 1992--oh, my God, the budget deficit will do us in!--were quickly overtaken by events. What's more, the fear of many conservatives that we might be at the mercy of unstoppable forces of social disintegration turned out to be wrong. Indeed, the dire predictions were rendered obsolete so quickly that one wonders whether we were...
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...officials have said repeatedly that violence in Iraq will get worse before it gets better. That certainly appears to be true at this point. But how much worse Iraq can get before things might get better is a frightening calculation to consider. Does Iraq have the potential to become Rwanda, where up to 800,000 people died in the course of roughly 100 days in 1994? Or will the carnage be more like the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, where more than 100,000 people were left dead in a war that stretched from...
...your work in the movie Hotel Rwanda prompt you to take a more personal look at Africa? -Ryan DeLaney in Lost Angeles It is definitely what pulled me into this situation with Darfur. Before I began working on the movie I had very sketchy knowledge about what had happened in Rwanda. It wasn't until I started working on the movie that I began learning about Darfur. I guess it is fair to say that has sort of pulled me into the current...