I thought someone might have diaried this.
It started 30 years ago today 1994 and went on to the 15th of July 1994.
Useful timeline is here: peacekeeping.un.org/...
In those brief 100 days, approximately 8000 Tutsies died every day.
To this day it is illegal to ask the heritage of any Rwandan.
The UN and Belgian had no mandate to stop it.
The US didn’t want to intervene after Somalia in 1992/3
The French who were allied with the Hutu government were given the UN mandate to intervene on the 10th of June 1994 and called it Opération Turquoise.
They entered Rwanda on 22 June 1994 and set up the Zone Turquoise as a safe place.
That scandal went on for decades
When the mandate finished on the 21st of August 1994 they left.
Just thought I would remind some of the brief, bloody, genocide.
A good article to read for those interested
The judicial legacy of the Rwandan genocide: 30 years of double standards
The international community’s efforts to prosecute perpetrators of core crimes remain selective and politicised.