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I am the director, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Hotel Rwanda . . . [In response to your article] the Europeans did have a force in Rwanda at the time of the genocide capable of stopping it days after the slaughter began. The Belgian, French and Italian forces sent to evacuate their citizens we...

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Published inThe Guardian (London)
Main Author Terry George, Suzanne Thorpe, Robert J Gould, R Elmer, Jeannie Mansey, Martin London and Keith Thomson
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Guardian News & Media Limited 03.03.2005
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Summary:I am the director, co-producer and co-screenwriter of Hotel Rwanda . . . [In response to your article] the Europeans did have a force in Rwanda at the time of the genocide capable of stopping it days after the slaughter began. The Belgian, French and Italian forces sent to evacuate their citizens were, in the estimation of General Romeo Dallaire [the commander of UN troops in Rwanda], fully capable of stopping the genocide had they helped the UN force on the ground . . . The Brussels police force could have stopped the genocide in Rwanda - and it wouldn't take much more to stop the janjaweed in Darfur. It's about political will, and frankly Europeans have little desire to do anything in Africa.
ISSN:0261-3077