It was Bernard Kouchner, during another visit to Kigali on 16 June, who broke the news to Dallaire that the French military was coming back in to ‘sort out the Rwandan government territory and create a safe area’. Dallaire thought that if the French had really wanted to end genocide and support the aims of the UN they should have reinforced UNAMIR; he thought the real intention was to split Rwanda in two, like Cyprus. From now on, and with immediate effect, the concerns of UNAMIR slipped down the Security Council agenda. From mid-June the focus was on the French military mission and what it
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