1. What limits and challenges were imposed on Major General Roméo Dallaire in the exercise of his UN mission? Major General Roméo Dallaire, a native of Canada, was appointed Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda in 1993. From there, he watched as the country descended into chaos and genocide. More than eight hundred Rwandans died in the genocide. Never had such a great task been entrusted to him. The Rwandan genocide could in some way be compared to the Holocaust. General Dallaire said the genocide "proves that the UN is an irrelevant, corrupt and decadent institution that has lost its usefulness or even its capacity to resolve conflicts." (http://www.romeodallaire.com/index.php/rwanda-genocide/) Dallaire received too few lightly armed troops. The troops he was sent with were unprepared for the war they were charged with controlling. The United Nations is for the maintenance of peace. The troops sent by General Dallaire were prepared only for a peacekeeping mission, not for war. The Rwandan genocide was deeply rooted and built on the basis of discrimination and tribal exclusions.2. What group were the attackers from? Who were their targets and why? The Hutu tribe were the aggressors and their targets were the Tutsi tribe. The conflict between Hutu and Tutsi lasted throughout the 20th century. During this entire period, 200,000 Hutus were killed by the Tutsi army. After the genocide began in Rwanda, Hutu militia targeted Tutsi, resulting in between 800,000 and one million deaths. Both the Hutu and Tutsi tribes share a similar past. At first both tribes raised cattle, the group that owned the most cattle was called the Tutsi and everyone else was called the...... middle of paper ...... France evacuated , they could have easily evacuated the Rwandans too, but why didn't they do it? The United States did not want to be involved in the Rwandan genocide and tried to stay out of it as much as possible. If the United States had evacuated the Rwandans, the Hutus might have viewed them as aiding the enemy and any Americans who were in Rwanda at the time might have been killed in retaliation. The United States was trying to protect its population and stay away from genocide as much as possible. There was no racism, just a lack of compassion for our fellow human beings. Everyone deserves an equal chance in life, and since the Hutus killed the Tutsis, they were not given that chance, while the United States and France could have easily helped evacuate the Rwandan victims, they did not. did not do so due to lack of resources. compassion and excessive self-centeredness.