`Genocide: The U.N`s greatest[success or failure]`

The UN and Rwanda

Despite the shocking nature of the slaughter in Rwanda , many people are not familiar with the events that transpired . Between April and June 1994 , an estimated 800 ,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days . Most of the dead were Tutsis - and most of those who perpetrated the violence were Hutus . Even for a country with such a turbulent history as Rwanda , the scale and speed of the slaughter left its people reeling (BBC

Was the United Nations successful in stopping the campaign of genocide

in Rwanda ? Considering that there were 800 ,000 people killed in Rwanda it would be hard to call the UN action a success . In fact , the incompetence of the United Nations was a contributing factor in the deaths of many innocent people as the terrible UN bureaucracy led to much of the slaughter

The Accords called for a U .N . peacekeeping force to arrive thirty-seven days after the signing of the agreement . As experienced diplomats certainly knew , it would be impossible to keep to sucha schedule . It took three weeks beyond the thirty-seven days for the Security Council even to pass the resolution creating the force . Despite the warning by the U .N . secretary-general that delay would seriously jeopardize ' the agreement , it was another two months before substantial numbers of peacekeepers were in the country . As critical observers later commented the Rwandan operation lacked a powerful patron among council members to force the normally slow pace of the U .N . bureaucracy (Human Rights Watch

The idea of putting soldiers lives at risk ' is an incredibly bizarre notion to avoiding military action . The whole profession of military service involves risk ! Soldiers understand these risks and perform their duties like professionals . While it would be ridiculous to put soldiers needless or recklessly at risk due to poor planning , to allow a genocide to continue because the soldiers might get hurt is pure lunacy . In to save the Rwandans , the UN committed troops to the nation

As the killing intensified , the international community deserted Rwanda Western nations landed troops in Rwanda or Burundi in the first week to evacuate their citizens , did so , and left . The UN mission (UNAMIR created in October 1993 to keep the peace and assist the governmental transition in Rwanda , sought to intervene between the killers and civilians (Ferroggiaro

Sadly , the force that was dispatched was ineffective and even retreated when confronted with the opposing forces

The major problem with the United Nations is the fact that it has become an impotent bureaucracy that is law . Not only is the world left with the genocide in Rwanda , but it also must contend with the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran , a situation that the UN has current genocide in Sudan , as the China , a UN security council member with strong oil and economic interests in Sudan , has perpetually blocked actions to send peacekeeping forces to Sudan , etc

Can the UN take the reigns and stop further...