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Skulls laid to honor the people who were killed during the genocide

Before the start of the genocide, The United States and the United Nations disregarded warnings from rwandans. They also disregarded warnings from General Romeo Dallaire, Head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda. These warnings stated that a plan to get rid of the Tutsis was underway.

Once the killing started, world leaders condemned the violence in Rwanda. However, they refused to intervene to stop it. The U.S. officials in the Clinton administration did not call the killings as genocide. This is because they didn't want to be obligated to intervene under the Genocide Convention.

Eventually, the Rwandan Patriotic Front stepped up its assault against the government and the massacres stopped. By July of 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front had siezed the capital and forced the Hutu army to flee.