Ghosts of Rwanda
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When the United Nations sent peacekeepers to this modest, Central African nation — with all the complete support from the U.S. government — most in the policy-makers included believed it could well be a straightforward mission that would support restore the U.N.’s battered reputation after failures in Bosnia and Somalia. Few could picture that, a decade later, Rwanda would be the crisis that nonetheless haunts their souls.
Ghosts of Rwanda, a unique two-hour documentary to mark the 10th anniversary from the Rwandan genocide — a state-sponsored massacre by which some 800,000 Rwandans had been methodically hunted down and murdered by Hutu extremists as the U.S. and international community refused to intervene — examines the social, political, and diplomatic failures that converged to enable the genocide to happen.
“With the perspective of time, the Rwandan crisis may be observed to be a essential test with the international program and its values — a clash in between the ideals of humanitarianism as well as the cold logic of realism and nationwide interest,” says FRONTLINE producer Greg Barker.
By way of interviews with important government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors in the slaughter, Ghosts of Rwanda presents groundbreaking, first-hand accounts with the genocide from people that lived it: the diplomats for the scene who thought they had been making peace only to see their colleagues murdered; the Tutsi survivors who recount the horror of seeing their pals and household slaughtered by Hutu pals and co-workers; along with the U.N. peacekeepers in Rwanda who had been ordered not to intervene inside massacre happening all close to them.
The documentary attributes interviews with Canadian Gen. Romeo Dallaire, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, previous Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, and previous National Protection Adviser Anthony Lake along with haunting interviews while using Hutu killers themselves, and a effective interview with BBC journalist Fergal Keane who traveled by means of Rwanda because the genocide was drawing to a near.
