What happened to the United Nations Peacekeeping force in Rwanda?

Question

Did the UN leave? If so, why?

Answer 1

That sad, horrible story has been shoved down the memory hole where tales detrimental to UN poo bahs go to die.

When things began to go bad there, the UN Security Council cut the force about 90 percent, leaving about 240 troops with no support. When the butchery began, ten Belgian soldiers were also massacred. About 500,000 Tutsi died in utterly brutal circumstances.

The head of the UN force was a distinguished Canadian General, who was forewarned of the massacre, who sent a fax to the UN Peacekeeping Office asking for help to prevent it, and who was told in reply: No help; do nothing.

Kofi Anan sat at that desk, made the decision, and then lied about it to shift the blame. He subsequently prevented the Canadian General from testifying before a Belgian inquiry.

A precipitating event to the massacre was a mysterious plane crash that killed the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. Later the downed plane's "block box" was found locked in cabinet in the UN Peacekeeper's Office.

In 2000, a UN panel accepted blame for not having acted to prevent the massacre. Anan apologized, like Chamberlain at Munich, for having done his best. The UN's failure, and Anan's, to maintain any peace in Rwanda is among the most disgraceful acts in UN, and modern world, history.

Answer 2

They were pulled out as soon as they got as many Europeans out as they were able to.
It is yet another stain on the U.N. that they were restricted to "Peacekeeping" duties while they, themselves, were being slaughtered as well as the Tsutsis.
There is an excellent documentary on the History Channel which repeats from time to time which revolves around the French-Canadian General who was in charge of those who were, for the most part, Belgian "peace-keepers." Many of them were executed by the Hutus.
He never got over what he saw and was ordered to (not) do over there. I believe he attempted suicide at one point.
Hotel Rwanda is accurate (although the violence is actually played down). There is also an indie film - "It Always Rains in April" or something like that, which takes you through the so-called war crimes trials of the perpetrators of the mass murder. Not much. Certainly not what they deserved.

Thank you "Fallen...". Didn't know all that. Makes it even worse. United Nations Peacekeepers is an oxymoron.

Answer 3

Long gone (1993 - 1996) - they were mostly ineffectual (you might want to see the great film "Hotel Rwanda", which shows just how powerless the UN was.

Completed missions

Africa
Dates of operation Name of Operation Location Conflict Website
1960–1964 United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) Congo Congo Crisis [1]
1988–1991 United Nations Angola Verification Mission I (UNAVEM I) Angola Angolan Civil War [2]
1989–1990 United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) Namibia Namibian War of Independence [3]
1991–1995 United Nations Angola Verification Mission II (UNAVEM II) Angola Angolan Civil War [4]
1992–1994 United Nations Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ) Mozambique Mozambican Civil War [5]
1992–1993 United Nations Operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM I) Somalia Somali Civil War [6]
1993–1997 United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (UNOMIL) Liberia First Liberian Civil War [7]
1993–1994 United Nations Observer Mission Uganda-Rwanda (UNOMUR) Rwanda Rwandan genocide [8]
Uganda
1993–1996 United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) Rwanda Rwandan genocide [9]
1993–1995 United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) Somalia Somali Civil War [10]
1994 United Nations Aouzou Strip Observer Group (UNASOG) Chad Aouzou Strip dispute [11]
Libya
1995–1997 United Nations Angola Verification Mission III (UNAVEM III) Angola Angolan Civil War [12]
1997–1999 United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (MONUA) Angola Angolan Civil War [13]
1998–1999 United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone (UNOMSIL) Sierra Leone Sierra Leone civil war [14]
1998–2000 United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (MINURCA) Central African Republic Central African Republic mutinies [15]
1999–2005 United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) Sierra Leone Sierra Leone civil war [16]
2004–2006 United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB) Burundi Burundi Civil War [17]

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Answer 4

All the UN peacekeeping force seems to do is go to some country and stay there. In other words they occupy the country like in a takeover and the news is blacked out, at least in the US the news is blacked out. If that sounds conspiratorial, it's because it is conspiratorial. The UN was set up by globalist Jewish bankers as a step to putting in a one-world, new world order under their control.

Answer 5

they prolly still hanging around there.