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26. Eyewitness Testimony
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"] Gen. Roméo Dallaire, UN Force, Rwanda General Roméo Dallaire from Canada was the commander of the ... United Nations peacekeeping force for Rwanda deployed in late 1993 as part of a peace accord between the ... worked on Rwanda for years before the genocide began. When violence started in April 1994, she focused -
27. Divided by Ethnicity
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In 1994, Rwanda’s population of 7 million ... the Tutsi and Hutu ethnic groups in Rwanda, even though they speak the same language, follow similar ... traditions and live side by side. During the colonial period in Rwanda, the ruling Belgians favored the -
28. Pleading for Help
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United Nations peacekeeping forces—known as the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda—warned his superiors that ... Rwanda, journalists also largely portrayed the conflict as a civil war, and did not highlight the ... international community in Rwanda were evacuated. Only a few international humanitarian aid organizations stayed -
29. Unity, Reconciliation, and Justice
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human rights abuses inside Rwanda against political opponents, and in the neighboring Democratic ... genocide—fled Rwanda, the epicenter of violence shifted from Rwanda to the DRC (formerly known as Zaire ... ). Beginning in 1996, the DRC turned into the battleground for continuing armed conflict between Rwanda’s new -
30. The Rwandan Crisis Seen through the Eyes of France: Part I
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internationalize a growing political and military crisis in Rwanda by pushing responsibility onto the United ... rebels who invaded Rwanda from Uganda with what an aide described as “the benevolent complicity of the ... Anglo-Saxon world." The contradictions in Mitterrand’s policy toward Rwanda are captured in -
31. The Rwandan Crisis Seen through the Eyes of France: Part II
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1990 To: French Foreign Ministry From: [French Ambassador to Rwanda] Georges Martres Source ... Ambassador to Rwanda] Georges Martres Source: Mitterrand Archive Subject: Requests for Military Order ... 1990 To: French Foreign Ministry From: [French Ambassador to Rwanda] Georges Martres Source: French -
32. The Rwandan Crisis Seen through the Eyes of France: Part III
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Quesnot Source: Mitterrand Archive Subject: Rwanda Military Situation General Quesnot reports to ... Mitterrand that the RPF has stepped up its offensive into northern Rwanda “with the important support of the ... [French Ambassador to Rwanda] Georges Martres Source: Mitterrand Archive Subject: Mission from -
33. The Rwandan Crisis Seen through the Eyes of France: Appendix
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Subject: President of Rwanda’s Visit (Monday, April 2 Document 22 (French) Document 22 (English) Date ... Military Attaché] Colonel René Galinié and [French Ambassador to Rwanda] Georges Martres Source ... Rwanda Document 24 (French) Document 24 (English) Date: November 14, 1990 From: Council of Ministers -
34. Genocide Fax: Part I
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1994, the commander of the UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda (the United Nations Assistance Mission ... for Rwanda, or UNAMIR) wrote a “most immediate” cable to his superiors in New York that has come ... Rwanda. Dallaire’s warning turned out to be accurate. In reply to the fax, however, UN officials -
35. Genocide Fax: Part II
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Faustin Twagiramungu, who had been named as Rwanda’s prime minister–designate in the transitional ... to Habyarimana’s MRND party. Further evidence of the role played by Rwanda’s political opposition in ... peacekeeping force in Rwanda, Turatsinze requested protection for himself and his family. Sensing an -
36. Genocide Fax: Part III
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37. Genocide Fax: Part IV
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Brussels. (The former colonial power in Rwanda, Belgium provided the military backbone of UNAMIR and ... Belgian intelligence analyst for Rwanda expressed skepticism about Turatsinze. “He was a deserter,” Major ... an ally by the RPF, he was appointed prime minister of Rwanda following the genocide. By 1997 -
38. Genocide Fax: Part V
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Hutu political opposition inside Rwanda, and particularly with the MDR party, his links with the armed ... RPF rebels are more controversial. Appearing before the Rwanda war crimes tribunal, several witnesses ... triggered the genocide), Turatsinze joined the rebels in northern Rwanda. Turatsinze seems to have -
39. Genocide Fax: Part VI
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Rwanda at the head of a 2,548-member international peacekeeping force. With both the government and ... officials briefed the United States, Belgium, and France on the “emerging crisis” in Rwanda, both in Kigali ... significant risks in Rwanda in the wake of the Somalia debacle and mounting criticism of UN peacekeeping -
40. Massacre of the Tutsi Minority
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On the evening of April 6, 1994, a surface-to-air missile shot down the plane carrying Rwanda ... not known who fired the missile, but the assassination was taken by extremist leaders of Rwanda’s Hutu ... safe return to Rwanda. Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu, was inaugurated as president. Despite the power -
41. Inside the UN Security Council, January–July 1994
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describe the events in Rwanda. The contemporaneous diplomatic cables offer a glimpse into the ... shaped its response to the genocide in Rwanda in the days and weeks after the April 6 -
42. The Rwandan Refugee Crisis: Map
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During the months leading up to the genocide in Rwanda, UN officials and western diplomats grew ... Rwanda; and Burundian refugees in southern Rwanda. During the months leading up to the genocide in Rwanda, UN officials and western diplomats grew -
43. The Rwandan Refugee Crisis: Before the Genocide: Part I
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months leading up to the genocide in Rwanda, UN officials and western diplomats grew increasingly ... peacekeeping force in Rwanda, known as UNAMIR, and US State Department records released in response to Freedom ... in Rwanda and neighboring Burundi: Tutsi refugees from Rwanda. The State Department estimated -
44. The Rwandan Refugee Crisis: Before the Genocide: Part II
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between the Government of Rwanda and the Rwandan Patriotic Front on the Repatriation of Rwandan Refugees ... ="11528" style="fullWidthImage"] Document 2 Date: October 14, 1993 To: American Embassy Kigali [Rwanda ... October 1993, the president of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana, reviews the status of the repatriation -
45. The Rwandan Refugee Crisis: Before the Genocide: Part III
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southern Rwanda, UN Special Representative Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh reports that the “humanitarian emergency ... Washington, DC From: American Embassy Kigali [Rwanda] Subject: Burundi Refugees: Too Many Problems ... Rwanda, David Rawson, reports that the Rwandan government is “totally unprepared” to begin receiving -
46. Warnings of Catastrophe: Part I
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about the possibility of “a new bloodbath” in Rwanda, the Belgian foreign ministry issued a ... potential for mass violence in Rwanda from US, French, and UN sources dating back to late 1990 ... the “Blue Berets,” might become “passive witnesses to genocide in Rwanda.” Addressed to the Belgian -
47. Warnings of Catastrophe: Part II
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1990 To: French Foreign Ministry From: [French Ambassador to Rwanda Georges] Martres and [French ... aftermath of an invasion of Rwanda by Tutsi-led rebels based in Uganda, Georges Martres, the French ... ambassador to Rwanda, warns of a political and military backlash by the country’s Hutu majority. He believes -
48. Warnings of Catastrophe: Part III
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Cabinet Lode Willems] Subject: Warning of “Genocide” in Rwanda The Belgian foreign ministry expresses ... from Rwanda “in case of difficulties.” Document 8 Date: March 3, 1994 To: RPF General Paul ... zone in northern Rwanda. Document 9 Date: March 7, 1994 To: [Kofi]Annan\DPKO\United Nations -
49. Major-General Henry Anyidoho (Retired)
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Rwanda (UNAMIR). He has also served in international peacekeeping operations in Lebanon, Liberia ... Mission for Rwanda, some very important lessons I pick out from that mission are, one, in selecting the -
50. Ibrahim Gambari, Former Nigerian Ambassador to the UN Security Council
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resolutions and presidential statements surrounding the genocide in Rwanda. Here he speaks about lessons ... affect peacekeeping operations and their mandates. Transcript In terms of lessons from Rwanda, during
