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Romeo Dallaire, the former force commander for the United Nations mission to Rwanda, last night condemned the U.N.’s and United States’ failure to intervene in the Rwandan genocide...
Dallaire was one of three speakers in a panel titled “Ghosts of Rwanda” at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at the Institute of Politics. The Forum featured the FRONTLINE documentary “Ghosts of Rwanda...
During the event, Dallaire discussed his dealings with U.N. bureaucracy and his efforts to “stymie the progress” of the Rwandan genocide, in which 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu government. The Hutus were the ethnic majority in Rwanda...
...believe that agreement could be reached on basic issues. Pro-unification Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Talat will attend the summit in Denktash's place. Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and Turkey 's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will join the talks at a later stage. Tests Negative RWANDA The U.N. said initial tests on a flight recorder it had locked away in a filing cabinet for 10 years suggested it was not linked to the fatal 1994 plane crash that triggered Rwanda 's genocide. Embarassed officials located the "black box" after a report in the French newspaper Le Monde said...
...freeze the assets of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, who fled to exile in Nigeria in August 2003. Taylor faces war-crimes charges at the U.N.-backed tribunal for Liberia , whose opening in Sierra Leone was marred by allegations of bias lodged against the presiding judge. Charge Rebuffed RWANDA President Paul Kagame rejected an allegation that he authorized the shooting down of a plane carrying then President Juvenal Habyarimana in 1994, killing Habyarimana and triggering the genocide that led to the deaths of more than 800,000 people. French newspaper Le Monde reported the charge, which it said is part...