Hotel Rwanda And The United Nations Assistance Mission In Rwanda

Former UN Secretary- General Boutros Boutros-Ghali once said, “ We were not realizing that with just a machete, you can do genocide.” The continent of Africa has been continually engaged in civil, tribal, and cross national conflicts from the colonial era up until present day. The Hutus and the Tutsis, two ethnic groups within Rwanda, have been at repeated unrest for the past half a century. During the 100 day massacre of 1994, a murder occurred every two seconds, resulting in half of the Tutsi population being killed. It was the fastest, most efficient killing spree of that era. Nevertheless, in 2004 the film Hotel Rwanda was released and it portrays the consequences that took place. The movie showed how Paul Rusesabagina keeps over 1200 Tutsis refugees in his hotel. The Hotel De Milles Colliness, a five- star resort, became a refugee camp to keep the Tutsis safe. The international community utterly failed to prevent and stop this massacre from happening. The purpose of this paper will be to focus on how Belgium, United States and France, knew that there was genocide underway in Rwanda- therefore, they had a responsibility to prevent and stop the genocide, but lack the political will that could have put a stop to this massacre. Finally, it will be shown that this international letdown had dreadful consequences for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), which, with neither sufficient resources nor permit, became an eyewitness to the massacre.

As far as peacekeeping methods go, the reputation of the United Nations is very pitiable. This is not only because they have not been doing their job to its fullest extent, but also because the member states on the security council haven’t given the UN the power it need...

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... sake of peace and tranquility. Establishing the truth is a necessity under the circumstance, especially in the United Nations and also for all those, wherever they may live, who might vulnerable to something like this happen to them. For example the earthquake in Haiti the UN should have taken over from there to set the country on the right foot, because as we all know Haiti never had a strong government to govern their country.

However, in order for the UN to work every country should be involved in the UN Security Council and be made to sign the charter. Not only would this cure the quarreling problems that some countries have, but also the army will be a lot better organized, so when then the UN is called in to help out, not only will they have the manpower and resources, but they will have the efficiency to be a true force in the world peace keeping process.