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Well it turns out that an active imagination really isn’t necessary—all of these things actually happened under the auspices of the vaunted United Nations (UN) oil for food program in Iraq. What is clearly the single biggest case of humanitarian fraud in history, and what might be the largest financial fraud of any kind in modern times, has gone rather unnoted in the American media...
...diagnosis, Simms' father Don read about the use of an anticoagulant called pentosan polysulphate (PPS) to delay the onset of scrapie, a disease which produces similar brain lesions in sheep as VCJD does in humans. The drug was not licensed for human use in Britain - and doctors were un-willing to test it on Simms until Don secured the High Court's permission in late 2002. Within months Simms' condition stabilized, then improved. Five other victims are now being treated with PPS, with similar results. Doctors believe PPS shuts down the "rogue" prions blamed for the disease. Experts disagree...
Nonetheless, almost all viewers of Hotel should come away with a few common conclusions. First, at the time of the Rwandan conflict, then-UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali described the situation as “Hutus killing Tutsis and Tutsis killing Hutus.” Dallaire calls this “the myth of the double genocide.” Indeed, the ethnic Tutsi rebels who liberated Kigali at the end of the civil war certainly did commit reprehensible atrocities. But Rwanda—like Darfur—was a one-sided slaughter...
...story of the Rwandan genocide casts most UN apparatchiks as heartless bureaucrats. Current UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—then head of the organization’s peacekeeping department—squashed an operation that would have seized Hutu extremists’ weapons caches. (Although that didn’t stop Harvard from awarding Annan an honorary degree earlier this year...
Dallaire fought with UN diplomats who refused to provide adequate support for the peacekeeping mission. After the genocide ended, Dallaire returned to Canada—but the horrors of an African holocaust trailed him home. Dallaire battled a new enemy: post-traumatic stress disorder. In June 2000, Quebec police found Dallaire unconscious on a park bench: he’d consumed a bottle of scotch—which produced a dangerous mixture with his daily dose of prescription psychotropic drugs. By the time police had rushed Dallaire to the hospital, the decorated general had nearly fallen into a coma...