"Ghosts of Rwanda" 4/15/11

• Gen. Romeo Dallaire- head of UN peacekeeping in Rwanda
• August 1993
• Hutus- ethnic majority- perpetrators
• Tutsis- ethnic minority- vicitms
• Paul Kagame- leader of RPF, Tutsi rebels
• Interrehamway- Hutu army that keads genocide
• January 1994
• Dallaire gets info that genocide is being planned
• Dallaire informs UN
• Kofi Annan- head of UN peacekeeping
• UN didn't believe Dallaire and orders him not to use force
• Mogadishu, Somalia
• US doesn't want to get involved in ethnic conflicts in Africa again
• Carl Wilkens- American missionary, only American to stay in Rwanda during genocide
• April 6, 1994
• Hutu president's plane shot down
• Col. Bagasora- lead Hutu extremist genocide
• Mme. Agathe- acting Hutu PM (moderate)
• Hutu extremists kill 10 Belgian soldiers
• Belgium pulls support from UN peacekeeping mission

Convention on Genocide

Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
-Killing members of the group;
-Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
-Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physcial destruction in whole or in part;
-Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
-Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 3
The following acts shall be punishable:
-Genocide;
-Conspiracy to commit genocide;
-Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
-Attempt to commit genocide;
-Complicity in genocide.

Every UN member nation has promised to intervene and stop genocide wherever and whenever it occurs- 1948