Ghosts of Rwanda

00:00:08 Maj. BRENT BEARDSLEY, Military Ass't to Gen. Dallaire: This was ordinary men, women and children

00:01:16 ...still haunted by the Ghosts of Rwanda.

00:03:55 Gen. ROMEO DALLAIRE: You know, the first breath of air of Africa...

00:06:10 But the peace process was already faltering

00:08:26 He said that he... he simply wasn't going to continue to work in that atmosphere

00:10:40 and in fact, he has sent other messages where sometimes his question that

00:13:21 The official line from the U.N. and all their embassies was that Rwanda was still safe.

00:15:53 Gen. ROMEO DALLAIRE: And then at 8:30, the first phone call came in

00:17:40 ...in fact, considered even more than hard-line.

00:20:03 CARL WILKENS: [home video] Well, what's going on here, huh? We got all the kids in the hallway and the television.

00:22:22 JOYCE LEADER: About 8:30 in the morning

00:24:01 JOYCE LEADER: About another half hour later, we actually heard a scream and a shot

00:26:57 Morgue was a little shack

00:29:16 LAURA LANE: I felt very, very strongly that if there is someone who is planning this kind of evil, they need to know that there is also another group

00:32:04 About 15 of them were still alive. The rest had been attacked with machetes and had been killed.

00:34:32 On the way in, they drove past the Interahamwe waiting outside.

00:37:24 in convoys, south to Burundi, where U.S. Marines were waiting.

00:40:23 CARL WILKENS: That Tutsi young lady and that Tutsi young man were faces right there to me representing the country, and I felt if I left, they were going to be killed.

00:43:32 that it would be... it would be callous. It would be contradictory to the spirit of the charter, which says the Security Council

00:46:03 Anyidoho assured Dallaire his Ghanaian peacekeepers would stay.

00:49:32 On the morning of April 15th, we woke up and started walking towards the church.

00:53:18 Guns are not only for soldiers. Every person can own a gun. If they shoot, you shoot back.

00:56:26 The publicity embarrassed the extremists, and their government gave the Red Cross safe passage throughout Rwanda.

00:59:30 to the genocide. I mean