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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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