During the genocide in Rwanda, why didn't anyone intervene?

Before I head into a simplified version of the complexities of international interventions (or lack of) in the Rwandan genocide, I would just like to say that this is a brief summary that combines what I learned while travelling in Rwanda, with my extended reading. read more

Within a month of the writing of this letter, the genocide ended, as Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front took full effective control of Rwanda. US support for a rapid-action force Mr. Dagne, a Congressional aide at the time, says that if the Clinton administration had called for a rapid-action force to stop the killings in Rwanda, Congress would have supported him. read more

No one sought to gain anything from an intervention. The UN, US, AU; all of them are more willing to help when they have something to gain, and quite frankly, they didn't stand to gain anything, and this was an African country. read more