Ghosts of Rwanda

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Through interviews with key government officials, diplomats, soldiers, and survivors, this documentary examines the state-sponsored genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Explores the reasons why the international community and the United States did not intervene as Hutu extremists killed some 800,000 Tutsis.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, Dan (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), British Broadcasting Corporation, Silverbridge Productions, PBS Video
Other Authors: Carlin, Paul, 1968- (Film editor), Lyman, Will, 1948- (Narrator), Barker, Greg (Screenwriter, Producer, Director)
Format: DVD
Language:English
Published: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS : WGBH Educational Foundation, ©2004.
Series:Frontline (Television program)
Subjects:
1900-1999
Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > Rwanda > History > 20th century.
Hutu (African people) > Rwanda > Politics and government > 20th century.
Tutsi (Peuple d'Afrique) > Crimes contre > Rwanda > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Atrocities.
Ethnic relations.
Genocide.
Hutu (African people) > Politics and government.
Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against.
Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Atrocities.
Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Personal narratives.
Rwanda > Histoire > 1994 (Guerre civile) > Récits personnels.
Rwanda.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Documentary television programs.
Nonfiction television programs.
Historical television programs.
History.
Personal narratives.
Documentary films.
Documentary > Feature.
Documentaires.
Documentaires télévisés.
Émissions historiques télévisées.
Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The UN's "simple job"
  • 3. A huge explosion
  • 4. Evacuation
  • 5. Withdrawing the peacekeeping force
  • 6. Bearing witness to genocide
  • 7. A wild place
  • 8. Captain Mbaye Diagne
  • 9. Bureaucracy at its worst
  • 10. Shameful passages
  • 11. Acts of contrition.

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