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The Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano (ignoring the murder of a gentleman-in-waiting to the pope, which was given big play in all other European newspapers because of its apparent homosexual overtones), called for "a clear and decisive intervention" in Algeria to stop the massacres from sliding into "genocide."
Last week, the U.S. government and European allies agreed they would stiffen sanctions on Serbia to protest the massacres.
Rome followed up defeat of the Carthaginians with large-scale massacres and enslavement of their Italian supporters.
But her second term was beset with the problems of regional unrest, most notably in Assam in the northeastern region of the country, where local massacres left 3,000 dead, and in the Punjab, where Sikh militants staged violent demonstrations for greater autonomy and even independence.
The cover of the NYT "Book Review" (plus an inside WP "Book World" piece) is given to Philip Gourevitch's extraordinary book on the Rwanda massacres, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families . Gourevitch's narrative demonstrates the "collective criminality" of Rwandan Hutus--neighbors hacking neighbors to death--as well as the all-too-familiar inaction of the U.N.