BTW For Rwanda, The commander of the Mission wanted to intervene bc he knew about the upcoming genocide and he had the means to do it but he was not allowed to do so, his request was refused by then ASG for Peacekeeping Operations, Kofi Annan, it was simply not covered by the mandate legally, ->
The US blocked a resolution by the UNSC, calling it a genocide bc the US would have been forced to intervene according Tia US code 18 something, but only short before, they had bad experiences in Mogadishu and they weren’t ready to send troops to another African country, most Americans wouldn’t ->
Find on a map. And when Belgium withdrew their troops after ten of them were killed, the commander stayed behind and created a safe zone with about 300 peacekeepers and saved t n thousands despite his orders from New York to withdraw all of his forces. ->
This is about him