Assignment task:
Synopsis: The world was horrified when nearly a million people were killed in 100 days during Rwanda's 1994 civil war. Assigned to the country only months before the madness erupted, UN commander General Romeo Dallaire found that, despite his best efforts, he was unable to curtail the mass slaughter. In Steven Silver's award-winning documentary, a haunted Dallaire relates his personal account of one of the 20th century's worst cases of genocide and explains how politics and timidity conspired to prevent the UN from keeping the peace. (Source: Sundance Channel, retrieved).
Question 1. What are your thoughts on Romeo Dallaire and what he attempted to do in Rwanda?
Question 2. Should the UN have intervened in Rwanda? Why do you think they didn't?