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Africa Deserves a Closer Look |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS |
| Author: Michael Johns |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 768 Words, 5,134 Characters |
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Yet, like the African crises before it, the tragedy of Central Africa is very real and, in a global age, perhaps not as distant as some would like to think. With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.
The details are these: In the small Central African nation of Rwanda, two warring tribes--the Hutus and Tutsis--have for years been engaged in a bloody conflict that ranks as one of the world's most pressing current human-rights tragedies. In 1994, more than a million Rwandan Hutus, feari...
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...licy has proven principled in humanitarian matters for many decades; standing on the sideline as innocents perish seems almost decidedly un-American. On the other hand, with memories of U.S. servicemen being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu still fresh in the American mind, the Central African crisis may yet prove to be one of Washington's first significant foreign policy abstentions.
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