That Easter weekend in New York, the more Keating read about Rwanda, the worse he realised the situation was. The reports provided by the UN Secretariat were of poor quality, offering little analysis on the implication of events, and UN officials seemed overly eager to present good news. It was far too simple to categorise this as a civil war – rather, ethnic violence was a central feature of Rwandan politics. As a result, the reports provided by officials in the UN Secretariat significantly underestimated the ethnic complexity of the situation.
