"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