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UN intervention in Rwanda. Intervention in the Rwandan Genocide: Prevention
preferable, but better intervention second best The Hutus ...
... and impeding effective intervention by UN forces to ... been significantly reduced with
the initial intervention and aide ... Rwanda has been subjected to a number of ...
... stationed about 2,500 of is troops to Rwanda, but when ... The United Nation intervention
was not successful and it ... They felt safe protected by the UN only for a ...
... The genocide that occurred in Rwanda is an example of the preventable disasters
that can arise due to the cumbersome ... Any intervention by the UN that does ...
... In a June 22 vote, the UN Security Council gave its blessing to this intervention;
that same day, French troops entered Rwanda from Zaire. ...
Submitted by megs05 on May 10, 2005
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Intervention in the Rwandan Genocide:
Prevention preferable, but better intervention second best
The Hutus and Tutsis were not traditionally different, and ethnicity in Rwanda only became important during Belgium colonization when the more European-looking Tutsis were chosen as the aristocracy to rule over the Hutus. After Rwanda’s independence in 1961 the Hutu majority, comprising roughly 85% of the population, ruled the country. Between 1961 and the outbreak of genocide in 1994 many Tutsis fled the regime due to its discriminatory practices and anti-Tutsi policies. Even after gaining control of the country, however, Hutus had been scared of a Tutsi coup or an invasion from the Tutsi refugees in neighboring Uganda. The regime of president Habyarimana played on these fears in order to distract Rwandans from failing policies and keep their declining party in power. It was the assassination of the president that precipitated the implementation of ethnic cleansing, although not the cause; plans for such an event had been planned out by Colonel Bogasata the previous year, the assassination of the country’s Hutu leader just happened to be a convenient event for his clique of extremist Hutus to exploit.
In October of 1993 the UN Security Council authorized the UN Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) following a period of strife between the Rwandan Patriotic Front and the Hutu regime of Rwanda. When the government ordered assassinations were carried out in Kigali on April 6, 1994 there were about 2,500 UNIMAR peacekeepers in Rwanda. Soon after the violent outbreak Hutu government forces executed ten Belgian UNIMAR peacekeepers. On April 14 Belgium announced that it would be withdrawing its UNIMAR battalion, an action that unnerved other involved states and led the U.N. Security Council to cut the number of troops to a mere 270 the following week. Only after a month of vacillation did the UNSC vote to send 5,500 troops back into Rwanda, but...
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