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
Family photos of the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, displayed at a 25th anniversary memorial in April 2019.AP Photo/Ben CurtisThe 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...