"Ghosts of Rwanda" 4/20/11

• Ended in July 1994 when Tutsi Rebels wanted a Civil War
• Bill Clinton said he "didn't know what was going on" and if he had recieved the "correct information," he would have been "able to save about half the people"

"Ghosts of Rwanda" 4/19/11

• Gromo Alex- part of UN Humanitarian team
• Captain Mbaye Djang
• Hotel Mille Collines- safe haven
• General Dallaire started to secure football stadiums for people to go- another safe haven
• RPF didn't want UN to save them or their own people- what do you do when the leaders of the rebel army (the ones who are being slaughtered) are saying don't save us?
• Unarmed civilians saved thousands of people so imagine what the government could have done- 2 UN officers saved people in the church just by refusing to let the Hutus to go in; Wilkens went up to Prime Minister himself and asked him not to kill the orphans- PM listened
• Captain Mbaye Djang killed

Ghosts of Rwanda

I was extremely affected by this film. Just by knowing that this genocide happened not long ago at all and how so many people were killed so quickly is just scary to think about. I hadn't really heard much about this genocide since I saw this movie and I quickly realized how much damage was actually caused. It really opened my eyes. I knew people could do this to eachother, but I didn't think it would actually happen like that. There were so many people living in fear throughout that period of time, it was just a horrible thing to watch. This movie really showed me about the mistakes of other people in other places around the world and how nobody is perfect. People have their own reasons for hating others, and nobody can control another persons feelings. In this case, it had a very unfortunate outcome, but it can only make us stronger in the end, creating a better future for us all.

"Ghosts of Rwanda" 4/18/11

• Warren Christopher- Secretary of State at the time
• Madeline Albright- U.S. ambassador to the UN (later Secratary of State)
• Churches are "safe zones"- not believed by people to kill in a church
• Jean Kabanda- extremist Hutu PM during genocide
• Phillipe Gaillard- head of Red Cross hospital in Kigali, Rwanda
• Red Cross helped save 65,000+ lives
• In first 2 weeks, 100,000 Rwandans had been killed

"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 groups, as such:
a) Killing members of the group;
b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the groups;
c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 3
The following acts shall be punishable:
a) Genocide;
b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
d) Attempt to commit genocide;
e) Complicity in genocide.

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