Факты из жизни одного лауреата Нобелевской Премии Мира

In his book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda , ex-General Roméo Dallaire  who was force commander of the UNAMIR  claims that Annan has been overly passive in his response to the 1994 Tutsi genocide  in Rwanda. Gen. Dallaire explicitly stated that the then Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations held back UN troops from intervening to settle the conflict and from providing more logistic and material support. For example, he claimed that Annan failed to provide any responses to Dallaire's repeated faxes asking him for access to a weapons depository, something that could have helped defend the Tutsis. Dallaire concedes however that Annan was a man whom he found extremely "committed" to the founding principles of the United Nations."

UNAMIR's Force Commander Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire  became aware of plans for the genocide in January of 1994. He sent a cable to the then head of UN peacekeeping, Kofi Annan  , for authority to defend Rwandan civilians - many of whom had taken refuge in UN compounds under implicit and sometimes explicit promises of protection. Throughout January, February and March, he pleaded for reinforcements and logistical support. The UN Security Council repeatedly refused his pleas. Annan's faxed response had ordered Dallaire to defend only the UN's image of impartiality, forbidding him to protect desperate civilians waiting to die. Next, it detailed the withdrawal of UN troops, even while blood flowed and the assassins reigned, leaving 800,000 Rwandans to their fate." 


"И эти люди запрещают нам ковыряться в носу?!" (С)

РS А, может, к тутси у Кофи Анна какая-то особая нелюбовь? Это к вопросу об объективности "правителя и хранителя мира".

Взгляд из эпицентра бури

Ссылка на это выступления проф. Хаима Харари, бывшего Президента Вайцмановского Института, уже появлялась ранее в ЖЖ. 

Но сегодня многие положения из этой речи звучат особенно актуально. Настоятельно рекомендую перечитать. 

Вот, например, один из основных (по мнению Харари)  столпов общемирового конфликта - столкновения исламского фундаментализма и всего основного мира :

The second ingredient is words, more precisely lies.

Words can be lethal. They kill people. It is often said that politicians, diplomats and perhaps also lawyers and business people must sometimes lie, as part of their professional life. But the norms of politics and diplomacy are childish, in comparison with the level of incitement and total absolute deliberate fabrications, which have reached new heights in the region we are talking about.

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Актуально звучит, не так ли ?

Текста выступления на русском я, к сожалению, не нашел. Но есть текст короткой рецензии  на книгу проф. Харари - о том же самом.