Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, most of them civilians from both tribes caught between the warring parties. The killing continues: moderate government officials, students, foreign diplomats and aid workers have all been targeted. In recent months, as fighting intensified in parts of the north and around the capital of Bujumbura, even battle-hardened Western relief groups have been forced to withdraw...
...Hutu rebellion--and a Tutsi army crackdown--which continues to this day. Though a coalition government, composed of senior politicians from both ethnic groups, was formed under international pressure in 1994, its members remain hamstrung by tribal loyalties, unable and often unwilling to stop the bloodshed. Observes a Western diplomat in Bujumbura: "There is total impunity. Everyone still thinks that they can achieve their goals by violent means...
...foreign intervention. Few observers would dispute that Burundi needs help. But the Secretary-General's proposal for a quick-reaction force based in Zaire or Tanzania that could intervene "in the event of a sudden deterioration of the situation" has so far met with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with minimal strategic or commercial interests--and so far with few TV scenes of horror broadcast to prick the world's conscience. Western officials note, moreover, that the Burundian...
Different measures might indeed prove more practical. Western nations could help shut down a Zaire-based rebel radio station that is consistently urging the overthrow of the coalition government. More U.N. monitors, with adequate protection, could be sent to the country to report on human-rights abuses. Perhaps most important, the West could take meaningful steps to increase pressure on extremists still serving in the government and the army. These are not new ideas. Yet so far, due to a lack of support from member nations, the U.N. has managed only a minimal response. Last year Ntibantunganya requested 127 human...
...linked were wrong. To the contrary, controlling the supply of money, withholding subsidies from inefficient enterprises and continuing the transfer of government-owned property to private hands are essential for Russia's economic well-being. If the Russian government abandons these policies, the result will not be the Western-style prosperity of which Russians dream or the Soviet-style security that their memories have exaggerated. It will, instead, be rampant inflation and perhaps economic collapse...