Organization
United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 1993 to 1996.
- Also known as
- UNAMIR
- Wikidata
- Q262779
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headed by
- Roméo Dallaire 22 Oct 1993 – Jul 1994 Force Commander Primary record 1
involved in
- Killing of ten Belgian peacekeepers, 7 April 1994 the peacekeepers were part of UNAMIR Primary record 1
- Massacre after the Belgian withdrawal from the ETO school (Don Bosco), Kigali, 11 April 1994 Belgian troops guarded the school until they left Primary record 1
- Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda UN peacekeeping force on the ground Primary record 1
part of
- United Nations Primary record 1
followed from
- Arusha peace agreement, 1993 Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 22 Oct 1993 – Jul 1994 Roméo Dallaire head of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
Proof 1 source
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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
Dallaire was appointed Force Commander of the new mission. He arrived in Kigali on 22 October.
the United Nations peacekeepers were badly beaten, and later, after the Ghanaian peacekeepers and the Togolese had been led away, the Belgian soldiers were brutally killed.
On 11 April, after the expatriates in ETO had been evacuated by French troops, the Belgian contingent at ETO left the school, leaving behind men, women and children, many of whom were massacred by the waiting soldiers and militia.
The international community did not prevent the genocide, nor did it stop the killing once the genocide had begun.
the recurrent difficulties to get the necessary troops for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR)
On 5 October, the Council unanimously adopted resolution 872 (1993), which established UNAMIR.
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