Crisis in Central Africa
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Excerpt from Crisis in Central Africa: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, July 26, 1994 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:20 p.m., in room SD-419, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon, Paul Simon (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Pell, Simon, Feingold, Kassebaum, Pressler, and Jeffords. Senator Simon. Our hearing will come to order. We are holding a hearing on the Rwanda situation to find out what we are doing and is what we are doing enough? We have to do everything we can to help. I think it is also safe to say that we did not respond as adequately as we should have early on, and one of the things that the administration, as well as other countries has to work together to be able to respond much more rapidly when crises develop. Shortly after the problem developed in Rwanda Senator Jeffords and I talked to General Dallaire, the Canadian general who was in charge of the small U.N. contingency there in the capital of Kigali. One of the marvels of today´s technology, even in the midst of chaos you can reach someone in a capital like Kigali. General Dallaire said if I could get 5,000 to 8,000 troops quickly he could end this whole problem. Senator Jeffords and I communicated that to our administration and elsewhere, but there simply was not the sense of urgency that there should have been, and the U.N. did not have the ability. Some weeks after we sent that letter and after the U.N. Security Council authorized 5,500 troops, the New York Times, of June 22 had an article by Richard Lyons from the U.N. The story discussed the French moving into Rwanda and it says this 2, 000-man force - and incidentally, the French moved in in 72 hours from the time that they made the - decision this 2,000-man force would be in addition to the already approved U.N. force of 5,500 troops, composed primarily of African soldiers, requested by Mr. Boutros-Ghali, but which has not yet been assembled and is not expected to get to Rwanda for 3 months. Clearly, we have to establish mechanisms to move much more rapidly in this kind of a situation. Not too long after that article appeared the Secretary General of the Organization for African Unity visited me, and he said the OAU had commitments for the 5,500 troops. However, they need a mechanism to get to Rwanda. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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