Rwandas

I'll conclude with a clip from Channel 4 News in the UK, where I was asked to comment on Gordon Brown's statement that because of the Internet, there will be no more Rwandas.

Peter Daou: Where's the Social Web Revolution for Abused Women and Starving Children? (Boiling Frog Syndrome) 2009

In the 1990's, over a million Rwandas were killed and approximately 2 million became refugees, while in Bosnia ethnic cleansing led to a rampage of rape and murder.

Myriam Miedzian: Father's Day Has Me Thinking About Guantanamo, Iraq and Darfur 2009

Now you former colonies, don't get all smug -- you Sudans and Rwandas and Gujurats and Israels and Turkeys and Syrias and Indonesias and Chinas -- you haven't been setting a very good example for your former mentors, the West.

Jeff Dorchen: First They Came for the Latinos 2008

Until they take a moral interest, there will be more Darfurs, more Rwandas.

Helping Rwanda to Weep 2007

The Conclave could be filling the local galaxy with brand new Yugoslavias and Rwandas.

When People Start Thinking About My Books « Whatever 2007

"NEPAD can only live if there is a realisation that there is an avalanche of success stories and countries like the Ghanas, Rwandas and South Africas actually need to get on with it," Alfeld said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

So after Rwanda, the international community, United States among them, said we learned our lesson, no more Rwandas.

CNN Transcript Jun 20, 2006 2006

And, lest the mantle of the memory of Rwandas dead be wasted on only Arab audiences, the White House spokesman, Ari Fleischer, struck the same note: From a moral point of view, as the world witnessed in Rwanda ... the U.N. Security Council will have failed to act once again.

Balloon Juice » 2003 » May 2003

If you let all the adults and authority figures die and there are no, not just the military and police, there are no teachers, there are no health care workers, societies descend into chaos, young children get forced into more and more tribal wars, there's more and more threat of more and more Rwandas and inevitably the United States and other people will have to intervene.

CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2005 2005

There will surely be Rwandas in the future —there is one right now in Darfur, Sudan where the ethnic cleansers come out of the same mix of radical Islamism and Arab nationalism that has caused so much suffering in many other places, including our own places.

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