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The Tragedy of Rwanda
Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS
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Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 10/1/1994
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SOUTH AFRICA--We cannot become the policeman of the region. South Africa cannot rescue the people of Rwanda, or stop the war in Angola, or restore order in Mozambique, and it should not try. It is in South African interests to stabilize the subcontinent, if only to stop the vast and destabilizing flows of refugees across our borders, but that does not require military adventures or costly (and usually futile) "peacekeeping" operations . . . . Caution has served Mr. Mandela well, and caution should be his watchword.
Sunday Times

July 25, 1994

GREAT POWERS RESPONSIBLE

MALI--The international community did not remain indifferent to the pictures of Rwanda's suffering. It has made a point of sending food and health aid as a humanitarian action. Between Europe and the Unite...


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...onal community, which had ignored the human misery created by the civil war, has belatedly begun giving emergency aid to Rwanda. Japan should give as much aid as possible to that Central African nation. The Rwanda problem cannot be solved with foreign aid alone. But this immense Rwandan tragedy is a problem that all of humanity should be concerned with.

Nihon Keizai

July 27, 1994



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