... around the world could have been or prevented provided the UN paid much more attention to such conflicts and most importantly ACTED! Time and again in the months prior to and during the genocide, the Commander of the UN military mission to Rwanda (UNAMIR) pleaded with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York to expand his very limited mandate. The only time his request was ever approved was in the days immediately after the ... to exceed its narrow mandate exclusively for the purpose of helping to evacuate foreign nationals, mainly westerners, from the country. Never was...

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... had to sell the cows for 12 000 francs each, because when production increases during the rainy season, milk only fetches 80 francs per litre. The rate of exchange of the Rwandan franc averaged RwF 330.5 to US$1 in 1999; RwF 428.40 to US$1 in 2001; and was RwF 511.08 to US$1 today (18 May 2003), so the family would need to sell around 6.3 litres of milk ... in order to be able to afford to ... of 68,9 litres of milk). But few coffee farmers are smiling these days, because the average price of a pound of coffee " one that could become cheap grind or instant powder " peaked at about $1.4...

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... persons per square kilometer (Rwanda, 2000 p.1). A majority of Rwandans live in a rural setting. There are three main ethnic groups that make up the population: the Hutu (approximately 80 percent), the Tutsi (around 19 percent), noted as primarily farmers and cattle herders, and the Twa (1 percent), a pygmoid people thought to be the original inhabitants of the expanse (CIA, 1999, p.3). The religions of Rwanda include Catholicism, Protestant, Islam, and other indigenous beliefs ... Burundi's President Cyprien Ntaryamira held several peace meetings with Tutsi rebels. Beginning April 6, 1...

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