Word: rwandans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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About two dozen of us stood with unlit candles, gathered in front of Memorial Church to remember the swiftest and most violent bloodletting of our time--the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Dusk would blend into night with the grace of a returning spring, but none of us noticed. Our attention was instead focused on a slew of academics, activists victims who with a moving mixture of eloquence, pomp and passion, described those three months of unbridled insanity and lamented the rediscovered hollowness of slogans like "Never Again...
Ambassador Scheffer is the State Department's point man on this effort and his appointment is an encouraging sign from the administration. But not every branch of our government is cooperating with international efforts. For example, this past winter, a federal judge in Texas refused to extradite a Rwandan accused of genocide being held by U.S. marshals...
Clinton apologized for slavery: "We were wrong in that." He apologized for the support Washington gave dictators and kleptocrats in the name of cold war anticommunism. He apologized for the failure of the "international community" to act quickly enough in the Rwandan genocide: "All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed in this unimaginable terror...
President Clinton was so moved by his meeting with survivors of the Rwandan genocide, and his belief that the West had failed to stop the killing, that he was tempted to invoke the ?Never again? mantra that followed the Holocaust. ?But his National Security staff insisted that he hedge any pledge to stop future genocides since it was not a mission that the U.S. military was prepared to take on,? says TIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson, traveling with the President. ?So, even though he gave a moving speech in Rwanda about the need to stop future genocides, there...
...officials believe that the killers, rebels against the Rwandan Tutsi government of Paul Kagame, fled west back to bases in Congo -- a disheartening prospect since border-crossing raids brought Rwanda and then-Zaire to the brink of war in 1996. Kagame's solution then was drastic: lending military and financial support to the bush rebellion of Laurent Kabila, which swept westward across Zaire to the capital of Kinshasa and renamed the country Congo with Kabila as its new president...