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Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop

  • Written by Samantha Lakin, PhD Candidate, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Fulbright Scholar, Clark University
Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stopFamily photos of the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, displayed at a 25th anniversary memorial in April 2019.AP Photo/Ben Curtis

The United Nations deployment to Rwanda seemed like a straightforward peacekeeping mission back in 1993.

A lightly armed force of approximately 2,500 peacekeepers would help implement the Arusha Agreement, a 1993...

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