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independence from Belgium in the 1960s |
RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) were Tutsis
Fort Levenworth is where Paul
Kagame studied |
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Romeo Dallaire's UN
team not permitted to have an intelligence staff, so reports of killers
gathering weapons could not be confirmed |
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2,500 total troops for the entire country
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Very little background information on the country was
provided to the UN troops before they arrived
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Romeo Dallaire's UN
team told by informant from the Interahamwe that an assassination would
be upcoming and mass killing would begin, but not permitted to
investigate |
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Romeo Dallaire's
Informed UN of coming extermination team |
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Romeo Dallaire's
told UN he would be raiding an Interahamwe arms cache |
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UN's Kofi Annan
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Kofi Annan instructed
Romeo Dallaire NOT to raid arms cache and to inform Rwandan government |
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The philosophy was "we don't want another Mogadishu"
which had happened three months earlier
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Hutu President of
Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana
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April 6, 1994 -
President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, assassinated when plane shot down
at airport |
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Colonel Théoneste
Bagisora
assumed power, a man more extreme and bloodthirsty |
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Bagisora once pledged to launch an apocalypse against
the Hutus
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US Diplomat Prudence Bushnell
warned
of widespread violence
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US Diplomat Prudence
Bushnell Warns State Department of "wide-spread
violence" and military take-over of Rwandan government - warning
ignored |
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UN Insisted the
Prime Minister Take Over |
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Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana
Assassinated |
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25 Belgian UN troops were guarding her
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UN Belgian Troops
Killed |
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Dallaire did not have adequate staff and weaponry to
stage a rescue effort
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Clinton orders evacuation of every
American
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Clinton Ordered
Evacuation of Every American in Rwanda |
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Kigali Airport
Seized by French and Belgian Troops, to Get Westerners Out |
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Troops refused to help
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Then the Tutsis begged the journalists for help
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ON April 10th, the troops were there, but only to
save white people
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These troops COULD have intervened and backed up the
UN forces, but did not
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UN Troops Sent Home,
Dallaire Left with 450 African Troops |
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Dallaire: Plan
People To Sports Stadiums, Very Defendable - No Troops Provided |
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Dallaire met with
the leaders of the Interahamwe |
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Do I shake hands with the devil or just kill them all
right here?
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US (or UN) Avoided
Using the Term "Genocide" |
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After Nazi Holocaust, we said "Never Again"
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Six Weeks Into
Bloodshed, UN Approves Troops, But None Available |
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Almost no troops were made available to the United
Nations
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Pentagon Lawyer
Argued that Jamming Radio Programming Instructing Genocide Would Violate
"Free Speech" Provisions in the US Constitution |
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Lone American in
Rwanda Saved More Lives Than Entire US Government |
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The only remaining American in Rwanda, Carl Wilkins
probably saved more lives on his own than the entire United States
government.
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In 1994, he was the only one out of 257 American who
chose to remain in the country after the genocide began. His choice
to stay and try to help resulted in preventing the massacre of
hundreds of children over the course of the genocide.
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UN Envoy Left Mille
Collines Hotel, Attacked |
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UN troops defended the refugees by kicking at the
killers, since they had no weapons
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Specific Acts of
Genocide Have Occurred June 10th |
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