Volume 47, Number 7 · April 27, 2000
In the Name of Humanity
By Brian Urquhart
Deliver Us from Evil: Peacekeepers, Warlords and a World of Endless Conflict
by William Shawcross
Simon and Schuster, 447 pp., $27.50
Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 53/55 (1998) (Srebrenica Report)
United Nations Document
Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations During the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
by United Nations Document
What is to be done when hundreds of thousands of people in a hitherto little-known region of the world are hounded from their homes, massacred, or starved to death in a brutal civil war, or even in a deliberate act of genocide? To our credit, we no longer turn away from the face of evil, but we still don't know how to control it. As the new century dawns, one of the biggest problems for international organizations and their member governments is to learn how to react to the great human emergencies that still seem to occur regularly in many parts of the world.
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