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UN headquarters’ reply cables to Dallaire’s informant cable (11 January 1994)

Two cables from UN peacekeeping headquarters telling the mission not to act on the informant’s information and to warn President Habyarimana instead.

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Dates
11 Jan 1994

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  • Iqbal Riza 11 Jan 1994 Primary record 1

    He signed the cable that went out under Kofi Annan’s name.

  • Kofi Annan 11 Jan 1994 Primary record 1

    The cable went out under his name and was signed by Iqbal Riza.

Timeline 3 dates
  1. 11 Jan 1994 UN headquarters’ reply cables to Dallaire’s informant cable (11 January 1994)
  2. 11 Jan 1994 Iqbal Riza authored UN headquarters’ reply cables to Dallaire’s informant cable (11 January 1994)
  3. 11 Jan 1994 Kofi Annan authored UN headquarters’ reply cables to Dallaire’s informant cable (11 January 1994)
Proof 1 source
  1. 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 first response from Headquarters to UNAMIR was sent on the evening of 10 January New York time.
    It was a cable from Annan (signed off by Riza) to Booh Booh, marked "Immediate" and "Only".
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