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This study is about describing the causes of the failure of United Nations forces
(UNAMIR) to stop the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda during 1994, the case study was the
tutsi genocide in Rwanda .the Specific objectives of this study were to identify origin of
ethnic groups in Rwanda and the causes of the 1994 Tutsi genocide, to describe the
military intervention of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) to
stop the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda and to identify the factors which contributed to the
failure of United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) to stop Tutsi
genocide. Research question was why United Nations forces (UNAMIR) failed to stop
the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda during 1994. The researcher was pushed by the fact that
most of United Nations peacekeeping missions in world fail and he was interested in
finding the causes of the failure of those peacekeeping missions and at the end of the
researcher gave useful recommendations. Rwanda genocide was chosen as a case study
to determine the failure of United Nations peacekeeping mission and the related
research has been conducted by Rwanda government before. Different books, web
sites, journals and reports related to the failure of United Nations in peacekeeping
missions in the world have been consulted in literature review and Descriptive research
design was used. The findings revealed that the main reasons behind the failure of the
United Nations forces (UNAMIR) in stopping Tutsi genocide in Rwanda during 1994
are: Lack of political will of dominant Member States of United Nations (UN) to
intervene , inadequate financial resources and mission’s poor design .The researcher
concluded that the UN really failed to take immediate action and strengthen UNAMIR to
stop the massacres, due to opposition from dominant member states such as France ,
USA and UK and he recommended that The United Nations and its member states must
be prepared to mobilize political will to act in the face of gross violations of human
rights which have not reached the ultimate level of a genocide and the UN Secretary-
General should initiate an action plan to prevent genocide involving the whole UN
system and aiming to provide input to the World Conference against Racism ,Racial
Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance .
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