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Dallaire first arrived in Rwanda on August 19, 1993, for a 12-day fact finding mission. He returned for a longer stay in October of that year, at which point he began the difficult task of advancing a peace between the Hutu-controlled Rwandan Government Forces (RGF) and the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front...
...Tutsi man from the bushes in Zivu in 1994 and bludgeoning him to death. "When I hit him with the club, he didn't die," Ntirushwamaboko explains. "I had an ax. I hit him with the blunt side on his head." Ntirushwamaboko is one of up to a million Hutu - one-eighth of this small central African country's population - who are expected to face trial for the 1994 genocide that wiped out an estimated 800,000 Tutsi, moderate Hutu and political opponents of the former regime. Spectators squatting on a termite mound lean forward as Ntirushwamaboko describes...
...kill,'" she says. "And he asked for forgiveness." Mukamusoni cultivates a plot of land near Ntirushwamaboko's house so the two often see each other. Mukamusoni lost her parents, two brothers and four nephews and nieces in the genocide. "It's almost everyone," she says. Her husband, a Hutu, survived but is currently in jail, accused of participating in the killings. "He denies everything," she says. "He says he did not kill anyone. But how do I know? Maybe he's lying...
...April 1994, he was manager of the luxurious Hotel Mille Collines in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. Hundreds of Tutsi civilians sought refuge inside the walls of his hotel. As genocidal Hutu extremists massed along the Mille Collines’ perimeter, Rusesabagina called for help. The US and its allies in the UN Security Council shamelessly ignored Rusesabagina’s cry. The top UN peacekeeper in Rwanda at the time, Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, recounts in his memoirs: “the people in the Mille Collines were like live bait being toyed with by a wild animal...
...story of the Rwandan genocide casts most UN apparatchiks as heartless bureaucrats. Current UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—then head of the organization’s peacekeeping department—squashed an operation that would have seized Hutu extremists’ weapons caches. (Although that didn’t stop Harvard from awarding Annan an honorary degree earlier this year...