"Now, within the last decade we've had the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, Iraq. What happened in all of these cases is not necessarily unprecedented, as unbelievable as they have been. But it is you in the media who have been able to sensitize public opinion far more rapidly to what is occurring in the field than we've ever had before. It's an instant dump of information that requires an instant policy response by governments and an instant triggering of legal analysis and legal applications within minutes, if not hours, every time this happens."

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