Doesn't this
say all about the uselessness of that arbiter of Human Rights, the United Nations?
Eleven years after the genocide, Rwanda is still struggling to emerge from the 100-day spasm of killings by extremists from the Hutu majority who typically targeted their Tutsi neighbours and in some cases relatives.
The alleged main leaders of the genocide are being tried by the UN war crimes tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania. The court was set up in 1994 to judge crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity but so far has only convicted about 12 people.
Meanwhile, how many Khmer Rouge have been brought to justice? Well, none.
From the Guardian, May 2, 2005.
A tribunal to prosecute members of Cambodia's former Khmer Rouge regime for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people is to be established, after eight years of negotiations over legal and financial conditions.
And how many stories has the MSM published to push the United Nations to actually
do something? Hard to tell without access to Lexis-Nexis, but it certainly isn't on the MSM
yearly monthly weekly daily agenda like anti-Bush, anti-war stories are. On the other hand, I am just postive those eight years were spent negotiating who would pay for the U.N. staff.
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