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Prior to the start of the genocide, the United States and the United Nations both ignored the warnings they received from Rwanda as well from General Romeo, Dallaire. The warnings clearly stated a plan to destroy the Tutsis was underway. U.S officials in the Clinton administration refused to define the killings as "genocide", in part because they did not want to be obligated to intervene under the Genocide Convention. Even though there were bodies everywhere the international community did not intervene. The conflict was characterized as "ancient ethnic hatred" by many and the risk of intervention was seen as too high. Finally, the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front stepped up its assault against the government and the massacre came to a halt. International forces, including two-thousand american troops, arrived after the massacres had ended to protect international relief operations for the nearly 2 million Hutu refugees, including many of the killers. The last Un peacekeepers left Rwanda in early 1996.

__//**Mike D**//__



__Sources__

www.Choices.Edu

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