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...light of the global community’s refusal to forgive the debts of predominantly black developing nations, to fulfill its promised contributions to fighting AIDS, to meet or even seriously consider the millennium development goals to eradicate poverty and hunger, to intervene in the atrocities of Rwanda or Darfur, or to merely report on the poverty, violence and hunger that is wreaking havoc on black communities everywhere, Garvey’s statement is equally true today. Since non-black people have done little to improve the condition of black people, black people must begin to focus on helping each...
...world had listened, we may have prevented Darfur, Cambodia, Bosnia and naturally Rwanda." ELIE WIESEL, author and Holocaust survivor, speaking on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz...
...promoting proper hygiene among survivors?to prevent illnesses like cholera. The disease is transmitted through water contaminated with cholera-carrying human feces. If a refugee camp's water becomes tainted, the disease can spread geometrically, making it one of the great killers of disaster survivors. In the 1994 Rwanda refugee crisis, cholera took some 45,000 lives in less than three weeks. "Water sanitation is and remains priority number one," says Dr. Dana Van Alphen, the WHO's team leader in Banda Aceh. In Aceh, much of which remained partially flooded after the tsunami, teams built raised latrines to prevent...
...outraged that Bush?s people could twist the facts to fit a pre-conceived scheme. My only problem with it: these very reasonable, judicious folks from the State Department and the CIA are the same breed - sometimes the same people - who helped bungle U.S. policy in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda and a few other hot spots of the 90s. With their track record, any Administration might have been skeptical of their advice on Osama and Saddam...
...Hotel Rwanda, one heroic figure emerges as an exception to the UN’s heartlessness: Colonel Oliver, the hard-drinking, hard-working Canadian commander of the undermanned international peacekeeping force. The only problem is that Oliver’s character—brilliantly portrayed by Nick Nolte—is in fact a figment of director Terry George’s imagination...