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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...
...April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the President of Rwanda was shot down— setting off a collapse of the nascent Rwandan government. Extremist Hutus killed the Prime Minister and the 10 Belgian troops who were protecting her, and a campaign began to rid the country of Tutsi...
...great heroes of democracy of the twentieth century. He is also a highly regarded playwright and author. On the other hand, I believe the most famous thing Kofi Annan has ever written is the notorious fax in which he explicitly forbade United Nations troops from interfering in the Rwandan genocide. In addition to looking the other way through an ever-growing series of genocides, Annan is presiding over the oil-for-food scandal, one of the largest humanitarian crimes in history, and accusations of multiplying cases of rape and pedophilia committed by U.N. troops the world over. To dismiss Havel...
Dallaire said that GIF’s efforts would likely boost the morale of Rwandan and South African peacekeepers in the AU force, who he said were suffering from a “sense of abandonment...
...crimes alongside those of people like Ntirushwamaboko will bolster claims that the Tutsi, too, committed genocide. That troubles some outside observers. "If you give justice only to one group of people, I'm not sure that will have a reconciliatory effect," says Jean-Charles Paras, head of the Rwandan mission for Penal Reform International. "Quite the contrary, actually." Another flaw, say critics, is the reliance on confessions. In many cases, the perpetrators are the only living witnesses to their crimes. The promise of a lighter sentence could be an incentive to implicate others, sometimes falsely. And many of the accused...