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Thursday September 25, 1997
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ANTI-PEOPLE UN PROMOTING GENOCIDE?
WASHINGTON (LSN) — A Belgian commission, looking into the Rawandan genocide, has gathered strong evidence that top ranking UN officials halted efforts to stop the killing of half a million Rawandans.
Canadian Major General Romeo Dallaire, the leader of the UN peacekeeping force in Rawanda sent an urgent fax to his UN supervisors indicating that it was possible to bring a swift end to the conflict without undue difficulty. His plan was to confiscate weapons and thwart extermination plans revealed to the general by a highly placed informant.
However, unnamed officials at the U.N. peacekeeping directorate refused to authorize the operation, and the ensuing preventable massacre left General Dallaire frustrated and bewildered.
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