Ghosts of Rwanda Worksheet Date: _______ Period: _____ Name: ______________________________ Score: ______/ 17 1) How many people were killed by their own government? 1)____________________________________ 2­3) Who was the UN Force Commander in Rwanda? Where was he from? 2)____________________________________ 3)____________________________________ 4) Who were the rebels most made up of? (Ethnically) 4)____________________________________ 5) Who was the Commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front? 5)____________________________________ 6) Who were the ethnic majority in Rwandan? 6)____________________________________ 7) Who controlled Rwanda before the Hutus took over in the 1960s? 7)____________________________________ 8) Who was the backbone of the UN Peacekeeper force n Rwanda? 8)____________________________________ 9) Who was the head of the Peacekeeping in the UN, the Secretary General? 9)____________________________________ 10) To what group did the Rwandan president belong to who was shot down? 10)____________________________________ 11) What “above all” was Dallaire ordered to do by the UN after April 6th? 11)____________________________________ 12) What were the 10 Belgium UN soldiers doing when they were captured? 12)____________________________________ 13) How many American citizens were ordered to evaluate Rwanda by Clinton? 13)____________________________________ 14­15) How many people were initially inside the church and how many where 14)____________________________________ there when the UN forces arrived to rescue the polish Priest and UN observers? 15)____________________________________ 16­17) How many people were part of the last American convoy to leave Rwanda? 16)____________________________________ How many of those were Americans? 17)____________________________________
1 18) Who was the American Ambassador to the UN who worked for a complete withdraw of peace keeping forces. 18)____________________________________ 19) How many Tutsi sought sanctuary in a Catholic Church in Nyarube, Rwanda on April 15 th ? 20) How many days did Valentina stay at the church hiding out? 19)____________________________________ 21) How did the Hutu refer to those surviving Tutsis? 21)____________________________________ 20)____________________________________ 22) What did the Red Cross want to do to try and stop the killings after one of 22)____________________________________ their vehicles were stopped and 6 patience’s were killed? 23) With in the first two weeks of the killings how many Rwandans had been 23)____________________________________ killed? 24) What was Monique Mujawamariya told that the U.S. had instead of friends? 24)____________________________________ 25) What percentage of the UN force was decided to stay in Rwanda? 25)____________________________________ 26) Four weeks into the genocide how many people did the Red Cross estimate 26)____________________________________ being killed? 27) What was Dallaire trying to secure in every town that were defendable 27)____________________________________ and could be used to provide security for the Tutsi people? 28) Who was the State dept. Spokesperson who tried to interrupt what was 28)____________________________________ going on in Rwanda as genocide or not? 29­30) How many weeks into the genocide did the UN finally decide to send more 29)____________________________________ troops into Rwanda? How many troops were sent? 30)____________________________________ 31) Seven weeks into the problem in Rwanda found President Clinton claiming the U.S. would only get involved in an humanitarian crisis in what case? 32) When Christine Shelly was asked how many acts of genocide need to take place before it is considered genocide her answer was what? 33) When did the genocide in Rwanda come to an end? 31)____________________________________ 34) What ended the Civil War in Rwanda? 34)____________________________________
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