Essay - There is Nothing that United Nations Could Have Done to...

There is nothing that United Nations could have done to prevent the genocide in Rwanda." Assess this view

Introduction:

***** Rwanda genocide, unprecedented ***** magnitude since the Second World War, happened in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The deliberate kill*****gs of the minority ethnic group Tutsis was unleashed with such viciousness ***** even its perpetrators could not gauge its gigantic dimension. With a span of 100 days about more than 8, 00,000 Rwandans lost *****ir lives. ***** Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were killed in two surface-to-air missiles which opened the floodgates for the brutal killings of Tutsis and Hutu moderates in Kigali. Apart from that, 10 Belgian paratroopers, part of ***** group of the UN force, were defused and murdered by the Rwandan government troops as they looked forward to safeguard the ***** Prime M*****ister who was killed. In the next three months ***** followed, the genocide spread over the nation as countless Tutsis and the political detractors faced carnage at the hands of Hutu controlled militias, the ********** as also the gendarmerie, the Presidential guard included. (Dorn; M*****loff; Matthews, 2000, p. 37)

The international community ***** shocked while the ***** did precious little as the situation went beyond its control. Facts demonstrate that a reinforced intelligence capacity within the UN ***** ***** unc*****ed the unholy nexus for this carnage. Moreover, if ***** ***** were prudent enough to implement preventive diplomacy or afterwards, preventive positioning of armies, it might have been capable of preventing a lot of mindless murders that followed. Gathering of ***** data especially sensitive areas could have given a distinct and ***** inkling regarding the impending ***** prior to several months. Information like illegal influx ***** arms, insider information on the plots ***** genocide, the training activities of the Interahamwe, the handiwork and standing ***** the plotters ********** and a vener*****ble pattern of human rights violati***** that had ethic overtones. Regrettably, the UN failed to evaluate or syn*****size these vital pieces of pro***** nor did it acted in a proactive manner to look forward for additional information which ***** have substantiated and deepened the present information. (Dorn; Matloff; Mat*****ws, 2000, p. 41)

The Carlson Report examined the letdown of UN in implementing the 1993 Arusha accords and its abject failure in averting state-organized genocide in Rwanda during 1994. The greatest regret is that it all happened w*****h the complete knowledge of ***** ***** peacekeepers. It took the UN in excess of five years to complete ***** ***** move of self-critic*****m. Lasting for period of 6 months, the 3-member team inquired in***** the worst ever ***** ***** in a pe*****cekeeping operations. Quite several extremely destructive types ***** interaction between the states and national groups ***** not yet ***** subject to organized investigation and for ***** the inter***** community is yet to develop any regular policy. This ***** proven with overwhelming clarity in the instance of the genocide in Rwanda in *****. (Scherrer, 2001, p. 375)

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***** important lesson we learn from history