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Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda

The UN’s own inquiry into its failure to prevent or stop the genocide, 15 December 1999.

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Dates: 15 Dec 1999

The debate

What it found

The failure by the United Nations to prevent, and subsequently, to stop the genocide in Rwanda was a failure by the United Nations system as a whole.1

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features

Boniface Ngulinzira killed after the massacre at the school Primary record 1

author

Independent Inquiry into the actions of the UN during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda 15 Dec 1999 Primary record 1
Ingvar Carlsson 15 Dec 1999 Primary record 1
He chaired the three-member inquiry that wrote it.

Timeline 3 dates

15 Dec 1999 Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
15 Dec 1999 Independent Inquiry into the actions of the UN during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda authored Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda
15 Dec 1999 Ingvar Carlsson authored Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda

Proof 1 source

Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda (S/1999/1257) [the UN PDF is an image scan; quoted text is taken from the copy of the UN web page archived at phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/RwandaReport1.htm (Parts I to V)], United Nations, 15 Dec 1999. Primary record
The failure by the United Nations to prevent, and subsequently, to stop the genocide in Rwanda was a failure by the United Nations system as a whole.
Mr Ngulinzira asked the French troops to evacuate him from ETO but was refused. In massacres in the aftermath of the departure of the UNAMIR troops, he was killed.
In May 1999, the Secretary-General appointed Mr Ingvar Carlsson (former Prime Minister of Sweden), Professor Han Sung-Joo (former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea) and Lieutenant-General Rufus M Kupolati (rtd.) (Nigeria) to conduct the inquiry.
In May 1999, the Secretary-General appointed Mr Ingvar Carlsson (former Prime Minister of Sweden), Professor Han Sung-Joo (former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea)

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