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...superpowers. Now, most armed conflicts are ethnic civil wars in small countries. And unfortunately, the primary aim of this new warfare has been to inflict as much misery as possible on the civilian population of the other side, as demonstrated by the civil wars in the Balkans and Rwanda...
...Sometimes, the international community tries to intervene and sends its armies on peacekeeping missions. Other times, the world sits idly during a genocide, as when one million civilians were slaughtered in Rwanda. But even when the international community does act, it never does so in time—in Kosovo, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians were already raped, maimed or murdered before NATO rose to the occasion...
...send its soldiers to fight a war to stabilize oil prices, but not to protect an entire nation from annihilation. With the richest and most sophisticated military in the world, America has a moral duty to prevent human catastrophe when it can. We must not wait for another Rwanda or Kosovo to remind us of the importance of peacekeeping. It is time for America to create a permanent peacekeeping force and to become “interested” in humanity...
...Pweto Rwanda and Uganda began withdrawing some of their troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where they back rebel movements inside the country. Rwanda pulled out more than 2,000 troops while Uganda began the withdrawal of 1,500. The pullbacks are the most significant step toward peace since war broke out in the former Za?re in 1998. A peace accord signed in 1999 was broken almost immediately...
...African leaders met to discuss the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and recommit themselves to the peace accord signed 18 months ago and broken ever since. But the presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, which both back Congolese rebel groups and have their own troops in the vast central African country, refused to attend. In a small breakthrough, Congolese President Joseph Kabila said he would accept the former Botswanan leader, Ketumile Masire, as a mediator. Joseph's father, the former Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, who was assassinated last month, had rejected Masire's involvement...