Summary
The UN Secretary General's Special Representative for the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda Shahryar M. Khan discussed the significant contribution of non-governmental organizations to the relief effort in Rwanda. He also discussed the difficulties that NGOs experienced with the new government.
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Reconstruction in Rwanda.
Shahryar M. Khan recalls Rwanda at the time of UNAMIR, in a conversation with Xi Pei
First of all, please imagine a country which has been completely devastated. There was no electricity, no water, no medicare, no communications, no telephones, no government, no police, there was nothing. When we and the NGOs (non-governmental organizations) went into Rwanda during and after the genocide, it was really in a...See the full content of this document
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