As the world stood by, unwilling to send even a few thousand peacekeepers to Rwanda, in 1994 the Hutu government carried out the most grisly and efficient killing spree in the history of mankind. To mark the beginning of their rampage, the Hutu marauders kidnapped, tortured, and mutilated 10 Belgian peacekeepers as a warning to the Western world to not interfere. Then, roadblocks were set up and death squads took to the streets (Haynes). Over the course of one hundred days, government storm troopers used firearms, machetes, and even garden implements to massacre between 800,000 and one million ethnic Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus. In effect, the government attempted to exterminate the minority ethnicity in Rwanda (Power). As the

Crossette, Barbara (July 8, 2000). ôReport Says U.S. and Others Allowed Rwanda Genocide.ö New York Times.

In 2000, the Organization of African Unity released a scathing report about the Rwandan genocide. The report unequivocally concluded that the United States, Belgium, France, and the United Nations were aware months before the tragedy that a genocide was in the making and could easily have prevented the genocide in Rwanda (Crossette). Diplomats from these countries ôtrod a precarious path between passive indifference to events and the active obstruction of any potential military intervention designed to curtail the