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Hutu organization?

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Rwandan Armed Forces (FAR), Impuzamugambi (extremists), Interahamwe (civilian militias)

2
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Hutu Actor?

A

Habyarimana

3
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Tutsis’s organization?

A

Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)

4
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UN mission in October 1993?

A

UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR)

5
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Major critic of UN efforts in Rwanda?

A

Carlsson Inquiry report

6
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Plausible reasons for failure of UN in preventing genocide?

A

Lack of essential military equipments, and lack of political will amongst big players

7
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Evidence for lack of political will?

A

Delay in acknowledging the killings in Rwanda as genocide despite sufficient evidence (series of worrying reports from UNAMIR)

8
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Evidence of evidence of the grave situation in Rwanda

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Developed nations (US, Italy, France) warrant immediate evacuation of their nationals (France dispatched it’s planes in 2 days after bombing of Habyarimana’s personal plane)

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10
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UNOMUR?

A

United Nation Observer Mission in Uganda/Rwanda, under general Romeo Dallaire

11
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Limitation of UN policy of Neutrality?

A

It made them cocentrate on mediating the end of civIl war than to save lives

12
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limitation of Arusha accords?

A

lack of support from UN and US

13
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Evidence of its Insignificance in UNSC

A

8 weeks from the signing the Arusha accord to passing resolution for UNAMIR, another two months to gather peacekeepers, budget was not formally approved until 2 days before the genocide

14
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Evidence of its Insignificance in UNSC

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Officials from UN department of political affairs who monitored negotiations at Arusha for months only produced a two page synopsis that contained no analysis for Dallaire before the commerce of the UNAMIR

15
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Evidence of its Insignificance in UNSC

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Lack of provision of military essentials such as secured phones and translators in Rwanda

16
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UNAMIR nature

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Chapter IV peacekeeping mission instead of Chapter VII peace enforcement operation- meant that peacekeepers can only watch Hutu slaughter the Tutsi and do nothing to protect them

17
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Division within the peacekeeping organisation

A

Jacques-Roger Booh-Booh (special representative to the Sec-Gen for Rwanda& Dallaire often held different interpretation of the ground situation

18
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Impact of UNSC nonchalant attitude?

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Emboldened Hutu radicals as UNAMIR inability to protect Tutsi or seize armed caches signalled to extremists that the outside world was not going to take any assertive actions