Bush Sets Rwanda As Example For Darfur Crisis

By Matthew Williams
13:33, February 20th 2008
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Bush Sets Rwanda As Example For Darfur Crisis

During his visit in Rwanda at the museum dedicated to the 1994 genocide on Tuesday, U.S. President George W. Bush made an appeal to the international community to put an end to the violence that has taken Africa by storm, like Sudan and Kenya.

Bush said: "There is evil in the world, and evil must be confronted," San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Bush looked shocked during his visit to the museum which is dedicated to the 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were murdered in 100 days by extremist Hutu militias.

The atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region were blamed by Bush who responded with sanctions, diplomatic pressure and deploying and training in the area soldiers from other nations for peacekeeping.

He defended his decision of refusing to deploy U.S. troops to Sudan saying that it’s better to rely of forces formed by the UN and the African Union.

Bush condemned the slow steps made by the United Nations and other countries in improving Darfur’s situation. He called it genocide, even though others haven’t referred to it by that.

He said: "If you're a problem solver, you put yourself at the mercy of the decisions of others, in this case, the United Nations. It is - seems very bureaucratic to me, particularly with people suffering."

During the five-year campaign almost 200,000 were killed by militias in Darfur for rebel support.

Four truces were broken and 9,000 of the 26,000 troops were deployed in the area as peacekeeping force. The troops are a joint of the troops from the United Nations and the African Union.

Bush gave Rwanda as example in an effort to urge nations to step in and offer aid. Rwanda was the first country to send peacekeepers to Darfur and has the largest group there.

Bush said after his meeting with Rwandan President Paul Kagame: "My message to other nations is: 'Join with the president and help us get this problem solved once and for all.' "

About $600 million were committed by the United States to the operations in Darfur and another $100 million will be available for equipment and training. He said that out of the $100 million, $12 million will go to Rwanda.

This was the third country visited by Bush in his six-day trip to the African continent. Tuesday he went to Ghana and on Thursday he will visit Liberia.

 



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