The importance the Interim Government attached to the hotel became clear only later when, in his ICTR confession, Jean Kambanda, the prime minister in the Interim Government, admitted that the military and civilian authorities discussed the situation in cabinet meetings. The hotel, with its 550 refugees, was ‘unfortunate’. These people were ‘in full view’ of the world’s media, UN peacekeepers, medical teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the ICRC.
