FYSM 1300 Lecture 8: Week 8
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Week 8 - november 2 - dilemmas of humanitarian intervention. David reef, rwanda a bed for the night: humanitarianism in crisis - There had been a un peace keeping force since 1993, united nations. Romeo dallier and his peacekeepers had been sent to rwanda to oversee the peace accord between the government and the tutsi-led rebels of the rwandan patriotic front. Their mandate did not include preventing further slaughter since the un was persuaded that that would not take place. Well, the regime of major general juvenal hayekian did sign the peace accord, and if signed in front of the un officials then it was committed to peace. After bosnia, this was becoming standard operating procedure at the. A belgian colonial would recall i had not come to rwanda as a para- commando to fight but as a blue helmet, a symbolic presence to help the.