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The word "Enough," splashed across the front page of the Algerian government newspaper El Moudjahid , referred not, as one might have expected, to the continuing massacres by Islamic extremists, which are reported to have claimed at least 600 dead since the holy month of Ramadan began Dec. 30, but to the agitation the killings have provoked in western Europe and the United States.
Although, according to local Albanians, the Serbs spent three days burning documents before the British arrived, the Guardian quoted an official of the Hague war crimes tribunal as saying that scraps of paper left behind might be useful in establishing a "paper chain" between President Slobodan Milosevic and the massacres carried out in Kosovo.
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.
He shows us the consequences of this particular inability, too--the murdered presidential candidates, the massacres in the Colombian streets, the hundreds of murdered policemen.
In the continuing Algerian crisis, the London Sunday newspaper the Observer made waves across Europe by claiming that "at least some of the massacres in Algeria are the work of the regime's military security force."
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