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2014-04-17 Africa Subsaharan

U.N. Vows to Learn Lessons of Rwanda Genocide Failures

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Gasana said the U.N. in future should not only be quicker to deploy peacekeepers, but also do more to "address the root causes of conflicts: improving democratic governance, reducing poverty and inequality, ensuring national reconciliation."

In other words - the benefits of colonization, without the colonizer.

Posted by Pappy 2014-04-17 13:46|| 2014-04-17 13:46|| Front Page Top

#2 The UN will gladly transfer funds from the ex colonists to the ex colonies and will do the accounting to make sure that nothing is noticed when it goes missing in the process.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-04-17 14:20|| 2014-04-17 14:20|| Front Page Top

#3 As opposed to what happens to (say) Venezuela, where Russia and China get all the benefits of being colonizers without even having boots on the ground; that's all subcontracted to Hezbollah and Cuba.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-04-17 14:20|| 2014-04-17 14:20|| Front Page Top

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