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Letter to His Excellency Colin Keating, President of the UN Security Council
Card Number 34263
Number
34263
Author
Roth, Kenneth
Date
April 19, 1994
Ymd
19940419
Title
Letter to His Excellency Colin Keating, President of the UN Security Council
File name
Size
1426374 bytes
Pages nb.
3
Source
Type
Lettre
Language
EN
Abstract
In this letter addressed to the President of the UN Security Council, Colin Keating, Human Rights Watch draws attention to the fact that "Rwandan military authorities are engaged in a systematic campaign to eliminate the Tutsis. The organized campaign […] has become so concerted that we believe it constitutes genocide". This letter warns of the fact that the last telephone lines still in operation in Rwanda have been cut and that the prefect of Butare, Jean-Baptiste Habyalimana, a member of the opposition and Tutsi who had opposed the murders, has been removed from office. his position. He was replaced by a hard-line soldier. The letter calls on the Security Council to condemn by name those responsible for the atrocities and to order them to put an end to them, as well as to clearly announce that there will be consequences for their actions. The letter also requests that the United Nations peacekeeping force, UNAMIR, be maintained in Rwanda in order to "continue to protect the 20,000 to 25,000 Rwandans who are under UN protection".