Résumé
State Department officials at the working level contacted Rwandan officials regularly to urge an end to the killing—to little effect. In this cable, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Prudence Bushnell challenges Col. Theoneste Bagosora, cabinet director in Rwanda's Ministry of Defense and the coordinator of the genocide, as to who is responsible for the massacres. Ironically, his call for a cease-fire echoes the US call for the same, albeit for very different reasons. The telegram also highlights the US government's pre-occupation with returning to a “peace process”, when much of Rwanda is littered with corpses.