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Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa (1993-1994)

UNOMUR observers carry out checks at a Ugandan-Rwandan border crossing point in September 1993. In the centre Captain W.J.P. de Kant, 2nd from the right Lieutenant Colonel B.J.C.M. van Rijckevorsel.

UNOMUR observers carry out checks at a Ugandan-Rwandan border crossing point in September 1993. In the centre Captain W.J.P. de Kant, 2nd from the right Lieutenant Colonel B.J.C.M. van Rijckevorsel.

The commander of UNAMIR, Brigadier General Roméo Dallaire, in talks with a number of UNOMUR observers, including Lieutenant Colonel B.J.C.M. van Rijckevorsel (bottom right), late 1993.

The commander of UNAMIR, Brigadier General Roméo Dallaire, in talks with a number of UNOMUR observers, including Lieutenant Colonel B.J.C.M. van Rijckevorsel (bottom right), late 1993.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Operations in the Great Lakes region, Central Africa.

Military medical assistance in a refugee camp for Rwandan refugees in Goma in Zaire in the context of Operation Provide Care, August 1994.

Military medical assistance in a refugee camp for Rwandan refugees in Goma in Zaire in the context of Operation Provide Care, August 1994.

How should the international community intervene? Images of mass human suffering – such as this one of the refugee camp for Rwandan refugees in the Zairian town of Goma in 1994 – provoked that question.

How should the international community intervene? Images of mass human suffering – such as this one of the refugee camp for Rwandan refugees in the Zairian town of Goma in 1994 – provoked that question.