April/May 1994, one of the most dreadful campaigns of mass murder was unleashed upon the Tutsi people of Rwanda.  In just 100 days, more people had been slaughtered with machetes and clubs than had died from atomic weapons in all of history.

Convenient Timing
At the time, world media attention was focused on South Africa’s first “One Man, One Vote” elections.  When the genocide was launched on 6 April 1994, most African correspondents were in South Africa covering the elections.  The MRND government in Rwanda meticulously organised the genocide.  The French trained Presidential Guard, the army, the gendarmes and civil administrators were mobilised to slaughter the Tutsi minority. ​

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"I know there is a God, because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelt him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God!"
 
Shake Hands with the Devil
These are the words of Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, the Commander of the United Nations Mission to Rwanda (UNIMIR). His book, Shake Hands With the Devil (which has also been made into a dramatic film), documents the unfolding catastrophe, and as he puts it in the subtitle of his book: "The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.