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...spiral out of control, sympathy for solitary victims gives way to a numb horror at the mounting carnage. Which, for anyone doubting the modern-day relevance of these works, is not so far from the reactions of television viewers barraged by blanket media coverage of atrocities in Bosnia or Rwanda...
...force came under fire at home for having a limited mandate when an unprotected Japanese policeman was killed by guerrillas because soldiers were stationed in a secure area miles away. Japan has also sent its soldiers minesweeping in the Persian Gulf, peacekeeping in Mozambique and on humanitarian missions to Rwanda and Honduras. The unit in the Golan is the one long-term operation...
...would be hard to do worse than his father did. When the one-time Marxist Laurent-Désiré - backed by Rwanda and Uganda - ousted the venal Mobutu Sese Seko in 1997, he was greeted with cheers and optimism. After three decades of kleptocratic dictatorship, it seemed that Congo could finally begin again. But the senior Kabila's promise of national reconstruction didn't get much further than slogans and billboards. Within a year the country was back at war, and the smiling giant had cracked down on political opponents and postponed promised elections. So when a bodyguard shot...
...That pragmatic, measured approach - noted by Western and African observers in Kinshasa - may help bring an end to a war in which six neighboring countries, the Congolese army and various rebel groups have carved a country the size of Western Europe into a jumble of fiefdoms. Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi back rebel groups fighting Kinshasa, while Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia support the government in return for lucrative mining concessions...
...peace deal signed 20 months ago by the main protagonists - and requiring a cease-fire and the deployment of U. N. observers - has begun to take hold; most analysts agree that Laurent-Désiré was the main obstacle to peace. Rwanda and Uganda have pulled back troops; Zimbabwe and Angola are beginning to do the same. By last week, the U.N. had deployed 828 observers and troops and, says Squadron Leader Paul Beard of Britain, "there's a bit of momentum building up that is getting difficult to resist...