ABSTRACT
The conflict in Rwanda was the third large-scale ethnic cleansing of the 20th century, the two previous ones being the mass murders of Armenians in Turkey and the Holocaust. Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda (HRFOR) carried out investigations of genocide and other grave human rights violations; it started promotional human rights activities, such as rebuilding of the Rwandese administration of justice to human rights education. The process of negotiations between the Rwanda government and Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) lasted nearly nine months from January to August 1993 and ended with the Arusha Agreement signed by the belligerents on August 4, 1993. The fact of early intervention into the target country contributed to success of the French intervention. The individual commitment of the French as a regional superpower to the Rwandese as a nation and the Hutus as an ethnic group was, neutralized by the international organization of which it was a part, and, limited by UN mandated framework.
