Interventionism | The United Nations Should Not Use Military Force

Editor’s note: On April 6, 1994, in the African country of Rwanda, following the death of President Juvenal Habyarimana, renewed fighting broke out in a civil war begun in the fall of 1993. During this new outbreak of hostilities between a rebel army of the Tutsi ethnic minority (14 percent of Rwanda’s population) and government forces of the Hutu ethnic majority (85 percent of population), Hutu militias killed at least 200,000 Tutsi civilians and caused an estimated 2 million refugees to flee to neighboring countries. A UN observer force stationed in Rwanda to observe a...

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