[RwandaLibre] Philip Gourevitch’s “The Genocide Fax”

The New Yorker
January 16, 2014

Philip Gourevitch's "The Genocide Fax"

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Posted by Joshua Rothman

This past Saturday, January 11th, marked the twentieth anniversary of
the "genocide fax," a message sent by Major General Roméo Dallaire, at
the time the head of U.N. peacekeeping forces in Rwanda, to U.N.
headquarters, in New York, warning of impending violence against
Rwanda's Tutsis. The fax got its name from a story in The New Yorker
called "The Genocide Fax," written by Philip Gourevitch, and published
on May 11, 1998.

In the fax, Dellaire proposed a plan: raid a government weapons cache
within thirty-six hours, and evacuate the informant who was the source
of the information from Rwanda. Dellaire, Gourevitch wrote,

had labelled his fax "most immediate," addressed it to his superior in
peacekeeping—Major General Maurice Baril, a fellow Québécois—and
signed off in French: "Peux ce que veux. Allons-y." ("Where there's a
will there's a way. Let's go.") Reports soon appeared in the Belgian
press explaining that the response from U.N. headquarters had been:
Let's not.

For a long time, the details of the response to Dallaire's fax
remained unknown: Who had sent it? How high up in the U.N. hierarchy
had the warning really gone? Four years later, Gourevitch wrote, "My
fax machine rang and a copy of the missing response to Dallaire spun
into my office." It was under Kofi Annan's name, and was signed by
Iqbal Riza, his deputy in the U.N.'s Department of Peacekeeping
Operations.

Gourevitch's story, which traces the fate of Dallaire's fax within the
U.N., is available to subscribers in our archive.

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/01/philip-gourevitchs-the-genocide-fax.html


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