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I came across this little paragraph:

ICTR: Dallaire "Failed in His Mission"

http://mostlywater.org/ictr_dallaire_failed_his_mission

Contributed by Anonymous on Sun, 2008-11-30 04:50.

The French military expert says that Romeo Dallaire could have faced the situation and suppressed the massacres."A leader, a general must reserve this option instead of being locked up in a protective legalism" said the witness testifying at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

It has long been suggested that Dallaire actively collaborated with a US 'regime change' operation to place the region and strategic resources under American control. Another Canadian hero Louise Arbour also helped cover up the US plan by killing an investigation into the killing of Rwanda's President.

The present troubles in DR Congo are now seen as the logical extension of this US takeover first begun in 1994 and facilitated by Canada.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200811280315.html
http://www.truthout.org/article/uns-louise-arbour-under-fire...

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Checking the first link didn't tell me much, but the second link was a lot more informative, particularly the second story on that page:

The "Rwanda Genocide" Cover-up
By Peter Erlinder

Excerpt:

ICTR Chief Investigator in 1997: "Rwanda's Kagame Assassinated Previous President"

But this is not the first time that crimes of Kagame have been "covered-up" at the ICTR. According to sworn affidavits, placed in the ICTR record in early 2006, well respected ICTR Lead Investigative Prosecutor Michael Hourigan, an Australian QC, recommended that Kagame himself, be prosecuted for the assassination of Habyarimana in 1997! But then-Chief UN Prosecutor, Louise Arbour of Canada, ordered him to drop the Kagame investigation; to forget it ever happened; and, to burn his notes! Hourigan resigned rather than comply and copies of his original notes are now part of the ICTR public record for all to see. (3)

The "Rwanda Genocide" Cover-up on Clinton's Watch

The Hourigan affidavit makes clear that the "Rwanda Genocide" cover-up has been going on for at least a decade, but the reasons for the cover-up did not become clear until late 2007, when a senior Clinton administration diplomat, Brian Atwood, was confronted with UN documents describing a 1994 "cover-up" meeting with the Rwandan Foreign Minister in Kigali and the UN's Kofi Annan. According to the UN documents, U.S.-sponsored human rights reports by investigator Robert Gersony had documented massive military-style executions of civilians by Kagame's troops, during and after the final 90 days of the four-year Rwanda War.(4)