A politician at the centre of a 20-year-old controversy over warnings that Hutu extremists were conspiring to commit genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda said the United Nations peacekeeping force never informed him of such a diabolical plan.
Faustin Twagiramungu, the former prime minister designate of Rwanda’s broad-based transitional government that should have been created under the Arusha peace agreement in 1994, said the UN force commander Roméo Dallaire kept him in the dark with regard to any supposed campaign for ethnic-based slaughter.
Twenty years ago, Dallaire sent a prescient warning in the form of a so-called ‘genocide fax’ to his UN superiors. On Wednesday, Dallaire appeared in New York at an event sponsored by the UN and the Rwandan government to discuss understanding signals of impending mass violence. FULL STORY
