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Rwanda Civil War

References

• PENTAGON/RWANDA GENOCIDE VOA 30 Mar 2004
• REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO THE ACTIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS DURING THE 1994 GENOCIDE IN RWANDA 15 DECEMBER 1999 -- Approximately 800,000 people were killed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. The systematic slaughter of men, women and children which took place over the course of about 100 days between April and July of 1994 will forever be remembered as one of the most abhorrent events of the twentieth century. The international community did not prevent the genocide, nor did it stop the killing once the genocide had begun.
• THE SECRETARY-GENERAL - STATEMENT ON RECEIVING THE REPORT OF THE INDEPENDENT INQUIRY INTO THE ACTIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS DURING THE 1994 GENOCIDE IN RWANDA 16 December 1999 - The United Nations was founded at the end of a war during which genocide had been committed on a horrific scale. Its prime objective was to prevent such a conflict from ever happening again. Three years later, the General Assembly adopted a Convention under which States accepted an obligation to "prevent and punish" this most heinous of crimes. In 1994 the whole international community -- the United Nations and its Members States -- failed to honour that obligation.
• PRESS CONFERENCE ON REPORT OF RWANDA INQUIRY TEAM 16 December 1999 - A lack of resources and a lack of the commitment necessary to prevent genocide constituted the "overriding failure" behind what happened in Rwanda in 1994.