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

00:10:44 "Somebody came and gave me this information. I don't know how sincere it is, whether I'm being manipulated or not," because intelligence can also be used to manipulate you.

00:13:28 CARL WILKENS : It was strange because, on the one hand, here's little groups of eight U.N. soldiers

00:15:56 saying that there... originally, the first phone call said that there had been a big explosion in Kanombe camp

00:17:45 He was chairing the meeting.

00:20:22 Yeah, the killing was happening right there. Our kids were listening in. We--

00:22:29 - The prime minister? - The prime minister. And...

00:24:22 General Dallaire hadn't heard of the attack, but he'd learned the extremist leadership was meeting at army headquarters.

00:27:04 And it was a 24-watt bulb, at best.

00:29:31 And I felt very, very strongly about that because

00:32:41 Northern Rwanda

00:35:01 When it was clear the soldiers weren't going to help, the refugees appealed to the journalists.

00:37:50 before they go on about their gruesome business."

00:40:48 By the evening of April 10th, Carl Wilkens was the only American left in Rwanda.

00:43:59 And they said, "Well, no, we're worrying about this, and we-- these are your instructions."

00:46:35 It was just morally corrupt to do that.

00:50:00 Gacumbizi said that everyone should know what they were there for. He said that all those who were there should be killed, that no one should survive.

00:54:05 The Red Cross had never left Rwanda, and those who stayed confronted a stark moral dilemma.

00:57:16 I remember one day, I met by chance Colonel Theoneste Bagosora.

06:00:07 of Tutsis from different parts of Rwanda.