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...United Nations Human Rights Commission, as common sense would dictate. But Annan will do none of these, nor will he recognize the genocide by its proper name: to do so would obligate him to take action. Indeed the fear of confronting “genocide” in Rwanda was so high in 1994 that we allowed 800,000 people to die before recognizing the situation for what it was. Apparently, the value of not offending the Khartoum government is greater than the moral obligation to stop the massacre of more innocent Darfurians...
...that itch to break out from prescribed paths has stayed with Honeyman. It drove her work in two Harvard student groups that promote diversity, the Interfaith Council and the Race Culture, and Diversity (RCD) Initiative. It also landed her in places as distant as the Czech Republic, Honduras, and Rwanda as she worked to unite divided peoples by fostering greater cross-cultural understanding...
...just a matter of when to show the body of a dead American soldier; we've wrestled with what is appropriate to show when covering the carnage in Rwanda in the mid-1990s, when hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were massacred by the Hutu, and during the recent uprising in Haiti, when I viewed photographs of bodies piled up in morgues that were among the most unsettling images I've ever seen. (In that particular case, photographs of the chaos on Port-au-Prince's streets were so vivid that I chose to use them to illustrate the story...
...personal level, the CID exposed me to what I perceive as the biggest challenge to development: systematic violence. Two years ago, I traveled to Rwanda with five other undergraduates to observe an experiment in transitional justice in the aftermath of the country’s 1994 genocide. Some of us spent weeks monitoring proceedings in rural courts; others interviewed more than 40 survivors, prisoners and members of parliament about grassroots justice. It was an extraordinary opportunity for us to pursue serious field research in one of the world’s poorest nations, and to have our findings published...
...Secretary-General’s career, to be sure, does contain some troubling missteps. Kofi Annan and the U.N.’s peacekeepers have been painfully absent from some of the bloodiest conflicts of the ’90s. The political genocides that claimed one million lives in Rwanda in 1994 and more than 7000 lives in Srebrenica in 1995 are widely recognized to be the result of U.N. peacekeeping failures, and Annan has admitted as much publicly. More recently, evidence of corruption and mismanagement in the U.N.-administered Iraqi Oil-for-Food program—including a possible...