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septembre 18, 2005

Kagame défenseur de la politique d’interventionisme des Etats-Unis

In coming years, as historians reflect upon what was achieved at this week's United Nations summit in New York, one decision may stand out.
(…) Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, gave a stark message to the summiteers. "Excellencies," he said, "you will be pledged to act if another Rwanda looms." Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president whose rebel army eventually halted the 1994 genocide in Rwanda after the international community stood by, issued a similar appeal:
"Never again should the international community's resolve to tackle these crimes be found wanting. Let us be sure preventive interventions are the rule rather than the exception."
(…)Simon Chesterman, an international legal expert at New York University, says its adoption was remarkable.
"It's a lot more than I would have expected a couple of years back," he said. "What's really important is that previously [each] action [in response to atrocities] has been justified as unique, exceptional, one of a kind...What we're seeing is a progressive redefinition of sovereignty in a way that would have been outrageous 60 years ago."
Financial Times 16/9/2005

Rwanda says genocide term distracts, stalls action
NEW YORK, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Debate over whether a given conflict amounts to genocide distracts attention from peoples' suffering and stalls the international response to crises like Darfur, Rwandan President Paul Kagame said on Thursday.
Speaking to university students on the sidelines of a U.N. summit, Kagame said world leaders often seemed more fixated on what to call a conflict than on how to address it.
Diplomatic wrangling over whether ethnic violence in Rwanda in 1994 amounted to genocide kept the international community at bay while an estimated 800,000 people were slaughtered.
Kagame said similar debates had slowed response to conflict in the remote Darfur region of western Sudan.
"The issue again was, 'what is the name of what is happening?' in Darfur," he told the World Leaders Forum at Columbia University in New York.
"Call it what you want, but what is very obvious is that people on the ground are suffering."
Kagame said that to prevent needless deaths in such conflict zones, the international community needed to focus on "what we need to do to stop the suffering of the people, irrespective of the name - genocide or no genocide."

Posted by leonard at septembre 18, 2005 04:15 PM