Word: rwanda
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...bring peace to a violent land just by sending in a multinational force wearing blue helmets. True, some missions have been successful, like the Australian-led stabilization of East Timor. But from Somalia, where a humanitarian effort turned into a doomed attempt at nation building; to Rwanda, where U.N. forces failed to prevent a genocide, despite ample warnings that it was coming; to Bosnia, where the Dutch component of a peacekeeping contingent stood by while thousands of Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered in Srebrenica, the record of multilateral forces has hardly been distinguished...
...while the folks in Washington recall the consequences of failing to prevent genocide in Rwanda almost a decade ago, the same people remember well what happened the last time a President Bush sent U.S. troops into Africa. To this day, the military is haunted by the memory of the 18 soldiers who were killed in the 1993 mission to stabilize Somalia. General Richard B. Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional hearing last week that Liberia "is not a pretty situation, and it's not going to give way to any instant...
...humanitarian purposes. George W. Bush should definitely send troops to Liberia, regardless of whether doing so is a matter of national interest for the U.S. On many occasions the U.S. has been way too slow in taking action, most notably during the beginning of World War II and in Rwanda. Michael Swieca New York City
...government, set up under a peace deal agreed in April, might bring a permanent end to the five-year civil war. However, on Friday the rebels said they would recognize Kabila only as the country's symbolic leader, not as head of the government. The conflict, which began when Rwanda and Uganda invaded in 1998, will be the first case investigated by the newly established International Criminal Court in The Hague. The tribunal's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said he had received detailed allegations of human-rights violations in the Ituri region, including the massacre of 5,000 civilians...
...authorized a French-led peacekeeping force to go to the eastern Ituri region, where brutal tribal warfare has resulted in the killing of more than 400 people in recent weeks. The French troops have a mandate to protect civilians and to secure a regional airport. Democracy Beckons RWANDA Voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, paving the way for the first multiparty elections in four decades, to be held later this year. The text bans the formation of political parties that identify themselves along ethnic lines, in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the 1994 genocide in which...