... in Rwanda" (105). Imagine the multitude of lives that may have been saved had the international community heeded the warnings given by Dallaire's informant. Despite this knowledge of an approaching slaughter, "the foreign-aid money poured into Habyarimana's coffers, and weapons kept arriving - from France, from Egypt, from apartheid South Africa" (94). When donors occasionally showed concern over the killings of ... events in Somalia in the early 1990s, the United States was tentative about involving their troops peacekeeping missions. In fact, the Presidential Decision Directive 25, a ...

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... his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina Geladze Dzhugashvili, worked as a house servant for various upper-class Georgian families. Stalin was rather sickly as a child; he was badly scarred by smallpox, and another illness crippled his left arm (later in his life ... Lenin's wife Krupskaya. On December 22, 1922, Stalin found out from one of his sources that Lenin had written a personal letter to Trotsky. Lenin had been previously placed under virtual house arre...

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... his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina Geladze Dzhugashvili, worked as a house servant for various upper-class Georgian families. Stalin was rather sickly as a child; he was badly scarred by smallpox, and another illness crippled his left arm (later in his life ... Lenin's wife Krupskaya. On December 22, 1922, Stalin found out from one of his sources that Lenin had written a personal letter to Trotsky. Lenin had been previously placed under virtual house arre...

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