Atifete Jahjaga Quotes

Syria cannot continue this way—killing their people

The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

I was born into Sudan's civil war, and before I could read or write, I was using an AK47 in the conflict between the Muslim north and Animist/Christian south over the land and natural resources.

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.

Failed states have become breeding grounds for conflict.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world.

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

Once we destroyed the Saddam regime, we knew there was going to be a civil war.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

I'd been to a number of war zones before in my life, but I had never been in one as terrifying as Chechnya.

Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

The Gates of Hell have been opened in Iraq.

When civil war is regularly established in a country, and when the nation is divided into conflicting armies and opposing camps, the two parties in such war may be dealt with by other powers as if they were separate communities, and that such other powers may take part with one side or the other, according to their sympathies and interests, just as they might in a war between separate and independent nations.

If this matter is not handled very carefully, a third world war might start here.

Syria has become the great tragedy of the century—a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Syria: It’s a messy civil war and we should not be involved in it.