On Tuesday U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called for an international force to be established in Lebanon to end the fighting and killing in Lebanon. In addition to the approving sounds of nations far from the Middle East, there was a deafening silence from the 800,000 Tutsis killed in Rwanda in 1994 while U.N. troops in Rwanda did nothing on orders from their bosses in New York, including the head of chief of UN peacekeeping at the time, Kofi Annan. The U.N. forces did not have the right mandate, you see, so they could not intervene. *
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* See We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch, page 104-05.
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