🕊️ 100 Days. 800,000 Dead. The World Watched and Did Nothing | Rwanda 1994 In 100 days, between 500,000 and 800,000 people were murdered. The United Nations had a peacekeeping force on the ground. Washington had intelligence reports. A Canadian general sent a fax warning of the plan three months early. The world chose to look away. This is the full story of the Rwandan Genocide. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — 100 Days: The Hook That Changes Everything 0:07 — Rwanda: A Nation, A People, A Target 0:13 — Belgium Arrives: The Colonizers Who Built the Division 0:19 — The Identity Cards That Became Death Warrants 0:25 — Decades of Imposed Division 0:31 — The Arusha Accords: A Peace That Was Never Real 0:37 — April 6th 1994: The Plane Goes Down 0:43 — Radio RTLM: The Broadcast That Started the Killing 0:49 — Roadblocks at Dawn: The Interahamwe Begin 0:55 — Sanctuary Becomes a Trap: The Church Massacres 1:01 — The Fax: Roméo Dallaire's Ignored Warning 1:07 — The UN Reduces the Force: 2,500 to 270 1:13 — The Forbidden Word: Washington Refuses to Say Genocide 1:19 — Belgium Withdraws. France Stays Silent. 1:25 — 100 Days: 8,000 Killed Per Day, Every Day 1:31 — Dallaire Refuses to Leave: One Man's Stand 1:37 — The Rivers of Rwanda Run Red 1:43 — The RPF Advances: Paul Kagame Moves South 1:49 — July 4th 1994: Kigali Falls — The Genocide Ends 1:55 — Two Million Flee: Africa's Largest Refugee Crisis 2:01 — Clinton Comes to Rwanda: Four Years Too Late 2:07 — Roméo Dallaire Returns Home Broken 2:13 — Gacaca Courts: Justice as Community Process 2:19 — Rwanda Rebuilt: One of Africa's Fastest-Growing Nations 2:25 — The Identity Cards Changed: Ethnicity Removed 2:31 — The Convention Nobody Honored: 24 Nations, Zero Interventions 2:37 — The Question on the Memorial Wall 2:43 — The Children's Room at the Kigali Memorial 2:49 — The Only Force That Stopped It Was Rwanda Itself 2:55 — Never Again: The Promise the World Has Yet to Keep ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 KEY FACTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Belgian colonizers issued ethnic ID cards in the 1920s ✅ General Dallaire sent a warning fax to UN HQ on January 11, 1994 ✅ The UN Security Council reduced peacekeepers from 2,500 to 270 ✅ Washington officials were instructed to avoid the word "genocide" ✅ 8,000 people were killed per day at the genocide's peak ✅ The RPF under Paul Kagame ended the genocide on July 4th, 1994 ✅ 2 million Rwandans fled across borders — largest African refugee crisis ✅ Bill Clinton called his inaction his greatest presidential regret ✅ Gacaca courts heard over 1 million cases across a decade ✅ Rwanda removed ethnicity from national ID cards after the genocide ✅ The Kigali Memorial holds remains of 250,000 victims ✅ Today Rwanda is among Africa's fastest-growing economies ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE · LIKE · SHARE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This story must never be forgotten. Share it. 🔔 Subscribe for weekly historical documentary content 💬 Comment: What should the world have done differently? #RwandaGenocide #Rwanda1994 #NeverAgain #RomeoDALLAIRE #AfricanHistory #GenocideDocumentary #HistoricalDocumentary #HumanRights #UNFailure #Interahamwe #Tutsi #Hutu #KigaliMemorial #AfricaHistory #WorldHistory #Genocide1994 #RPF #PaulKagame #ClintonRwanda #NeverAgainRwanda
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