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date: 25 February 2021

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This chapter focuses on the second United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR II), a peacekeeping mission created by the UN Security Council in May 1994 in an attempt to stop the massacres of civilians and to provide humanitarian aid to genocide victims in Rwanda. UNAMIR II helped to establish law and order, transport prisoners and refugees, and facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid. From November 1994, the mission also provided security for staff of the newly created International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). After providing an overview of the civil war and genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, the chapter outlines UNAMIR II’s mandate and evaluates its operational achievements and failures, along with the lessons that can be learned from its experience.

Keywords: peacekeeping, UN Security Council, humanitarian aid, Rwanda, civil war, genocide, Tutsi

Linda Melvern

Linda Melvern is a widely published investigative journalist and author. She is an Honorary Professor in the Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A consultant to the Military One prosecution team at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, part of her archive of documents is used to show the planning and progress of the 1994 genocide. Linda Melvern has written six books of non-fiction and is widely published in the British press and academic journals. She is the second vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

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