Rwanda
...and government officials in place began killing innocent Tutsi’s to take the blame for their fallen president. Throughout the genocide the U.S. was under constant scrutiny for not getting involved in the matter at hand. Bill Clinton was an easy target for anyone with a conscience, but his actions led people to believe that he really didn’t care. There are several reasons why the U.S. didn’t get involved in the genocide, but the main reason was because the U.S. didn’t have anything to gain from the incident. Bill Clinton stated that the U.S. didn’t have enough troops to create an offensive in the struggling Rwanda territory. The U.S. did provide some relief in the form of training for Rwandian soldiers. What this did was not to stop the genocide, but provoke it even more. I think that Bill Clinton didn’t think it was worth it to lose soldiers for a lost cause. Seeing the massive number of murders that occurred each day probably scared the young president and he made the decision to stay out of the affairs. Airlifting was also a problem. Getting the soldiers into Rwanda was a task in itself. The airports, and any other land that could be used as an airstrip, was taken over by Hutu radicals. I do think that sending American troops into Rwanda would have been a losing proposition, but at the same time I think that if the U.S. would have been involved the situation would never have escalated to the level that it reached. The French and Belgian efforts in Rwanda were very short lived. Both governments sent a good amount of troop to Rwanda in hopes of resolving the genocide. After losing ten troops the French Prime Minister pulled his men out and never went back. The United Nations had a hard time placing blame for the genocide in Rwanda. Instead of putting a stop the problem they devised a plan to oversee the dealing that would occur. They came up with a mandate, which they thought would relieve the arms from Kigali. The mandate stated: to monitor observance of the cease-fire agreement, which called for the establishment of cantonment and assembly zones and the demarcation of the new DMZ and other demilitarization procedures; - to monitor security situation during the final period of the transitional government's mandate, leading up to the elections; - to assist with mine clearance, primarily through training programmes; - to investigate, at the request of the parties, or on its own initiative, instances of non-compliance with the provisions of the Protocol of Agreement on the Integration of the Armed Forces of the Two Parties, and to pursue any such instances with the parties responsible and report thereon as appropriate to the Secretary-General; - to monitor the process of repatriation of Rwandese refugees and the resettlement of displaced persons to verify that it is carried out in a safe and orderly manner; - to assist in the coordination of humanitarian assistance in conjunction with relief operations, and - to investigate and report on incidents regarding the activities of the gendarmerie and police. Dallaire was appointed Force Commander of the new mission. He arrived in Kigali on 22 October. When this mandate failed, they had no other choice, but to stop. They didn’t quit completely, though. They made efforts to restore peace, but those efforts failed. The United Nations lost service workers and innocent lives in the dealings with the rebels. After a while they decided to just let the genocide play out and then deal with it once the massacre had ended. Paul Rusesabagina was the temporary manager of the Mille Collines hotel in Kagili. During the massacre he sought refuge for Tutsi people and Hutu’s who were against the Hut...