International (United Nations)
Independent Inquiry into the Actions of the United Nations during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda: findings and what happened next
The actions of the United Nations before and during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
- Country
- International (United Nations)
- Type
- independent review
- Established
- March 1999
- Chaired by
- Ingvar Carlsson, Han Sung-Joo, Rufus Kupolati
- Report published
- December 1999
Implementation, as of 16 December 1999The Secretary-General welcomed the recommendations in December 1999 and said much remained to be done, and no later implementation review was sourced.
What the inquiry found
- The inquiry examined UN actions before and during the genocide with access to internal UN records, and reached conclusions concerning UN Secretariat officials.1
What happened next
- Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he fully accepted the report's conclusions and stated "On behalf of the United Nations, I acknowledge this failure and express my deep remorse."1
Sources
- United Nations, Secretary-General, in statement on receiving report of independent inquiry on Rwanda, expresses deep remorse (SG/SM/7263) (16 December 1999)